USC College is home to 140 majors and minors in the natural sciences, humanities and social sciences. FIRST FRAME 2017. Save the date for our annual student screeningUSC School of Cinematic Arts. The USC School of Cinematic Arts commonly referred to as SCAformerly the USC School of Cinema Television, otherwise known as CNTVis a private media school within the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, in the U. S. state of California. The school offers multiple undergraduate and graduate programs covering film production, screenwriting, cinema and media studies, animation and digital arts, media arts practice, and interactive media games. D5012C7CAD86DD134D88E39E61B4ECA5A65FC1D7images/Maltin-and-Daley.jpg' alt='Usc Cinema Arts Program' title='Usc Cinema Arts Program' />The University of Southern California USC or SC is a private research university located in Los Angeles. Founded in 1880, it is the oldest private research. Bridging The Spectrum. USC Cinematic Arts crosses the spectrum of media creation from film and television to games and interactive experiences. Additional programs include the Peter Stark Producing Program and the Business of Entertainment offered in conjunction with the USC Marshall School of Business. MBA Program. It is the oldest and largest such school in the United States, established in 1. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,145 and has been ranked as one of the best film programs in the world on several occasions. An estimated 3 of applicants are accepted each year, making it more difficult to get into than Harvard. HistoryeditThe schools founding faculty include Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, William C. People who searched for top graduate film school found the following related articles, links, and information useful. Ism, Ism, Ism Countercultures and Undergrounds. Date September 24, 2017 Time 600pm Location REDCAT. This program features historical shorts that emerged from. Currently the director of USC Annenberg School for Journalism, Willow Bay got a promotion today became a trailblazer as well. Bachelor of Fine Arts. The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Cinematic Arts, Film Television Production, offers students an intensive production experience with. Heavyweights like USC and NYU hold strong, but the other contenders are closer than you think. De. Mille, Ernst Lubitsch, Irving Thalberg, and Darryl Zanuck. Notable professors include Drew Casper, the Alma and Alfred Hitchcock Professor of American Film Tomlinson Holman, inventor of THX film critic and historian Leonard Maltin and David Bondelevitch, President of the Motion Picture Sound Editors. In April 2. 00. 6, the USC Board of Trustees voted to change the schools name to the USC School of Cinematic Arts. On September 1. USC announced that alumnus George Lucas had donated US1. This represented the largest single donation to USC and the largest to any film school in the world. His previous donations resulted in the naming of two existing buildings after him and his then wife, though Lucas was not fond of the architecture used in those buildings. An architectural hobbyist, Lucas laid out the original designs for the project, inspired by the Mediterranean Revival Style that was used in older campus buildings as well as the Los Angeles area. The project also received another 5. Warner Bros., 2. 0th Century Fox and The Walt Disney Company. In the fall of 2. USC School of Cinematic Arts joined forces with the Royal Film Commission of Jordan to create the Red Sea Institute of Cinematic Arts RSICA in Aqaba, Jordan. The first classes were held in 2. FacilitieseditDonations from film and game industry companies, friends, and alumni have enabled the school to build the following facilities 1. School of Cinematic Arts Complex, completed in 2. Century Fox soundstage. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg Buildings, featuring the Ray Stark Family Theatre, which is equipped for 3. D presentation, as well as two digital theatres, the Albert and Dana Broccoli Theatre and Fanny Brice Theatre. Marcia Lucas Post Production Center. Marilyn Jeffrey Katzenberg Center for Animation. Sumner Redstone Production Building. Interactive building SCI, home the USC Interactive Media Games Division, the USC Division of Media Arts and Practice, and several research labs the Game Innovation Lab, the Mobile and Environmental Media Lab, the Mixed Reality Lab and the Creative Media Behavioral Health Center, among othersRobert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts, home of Trojan Vision, USCs student television station. Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre Complex, featuring a 3. USC faculty member and Academy Award winner Tomlinson Holmans THX audiovisual reproduction standard used in film venues worldwide. The Frank Sinatra Hall, dedicated in 2. Sinatras life and contributions to American popular culture. David L. Wolper Center at Doheny Memorial Library. Louis B. Mayer Film and Television Study Center at Doheny Memorial Library. Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive. At the center of the new television complex is a statue of founder Douglas Fairbanks. He is seen holding a fencing weapon in one hand to reflect his strong ties with the USC Fencing Club. Distinctionsedit. The Eileen Norris Cinema Theater, a 3. It was where THX was first developed and installed. Since 1. 97. 3, at least one alumnus of SCA has been nominated for an Academy Award annually, totaling 2. Since 1. 97. 3, at least one SCA alumnus or alumna has been nominated for the Emmy Award annually, totalling 4. The top 1. 7 grossing films of all time have had an SCA graduate in a key creative position. The Princeton Review has ranked the Interactive Media and Games Divisions video game design program best in North America multiple years in a row. Both The Hollywood Reporter and USA Today have ranked SCA the number one film program in the world, with its unmatched facilities, proximity to Hollywood, and numerous industry connections being the primary rationale. Awards for USC Cinema short films. In 1. 95. 6, producer Wilber T. Blume, a USC Cinema instructor at the time, received an Academy Award for best live action short film for a film he created entitled The Face of Lincoln. Blume also received an Academy Award nomination that year for documentary short. In 1. 96. 8, George Lucas won first prize in the category of Dramatic films at the third National Student Film Festival held at Lincoln Center, New York for his futuristic Electronic Labyrinth THX 1. EB. 1. 61. 71. In 1. John Longenecker received an Academy Award for best live action short film for a film he produced while attending USC Cinema 4. The Resurrection of Broncho Billy. The films crew and cast included Nick Castle, cinematographer John Carpenter, film editor and original music James Rokos, director Johnny Crawford, lead actor and Kristin Nelson, lead actress. In 1. 97. 3, Robert Zemeckis won a Special Jury Award at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts Sciences second annual Student Film Awards presentation for A Field of Honor. In 2. 00. 1, MFA student David Greenspan won the Palme dOr for short film at the Cannes Film Festival for his student film Bean Cake. In 2. 00. 6, director, co writer, and producer Ari Sandel received an Academy Award for best live action short film West Bank Story made as a USC Cinema graduate school project. In 2. 00. 9, MFA student Gregg Helvey was nominated for an Academy Award for his MFA thesis film, Kavi. Notable SCA alumnieditSee also List of University of Southern California people. SCA has more than 1. Among the most notable are List of Endowed ChairseditElizabeth M. Daley Steven J. Ross Time Warner Deans Chair in Cinema Television. Chair Graciously Funded by Time Warner Inc. Drew Casper Alma and Alfred Hitchcock Endowed Chair. Chair Graciously Funded by Patricia Hitchcock OConnell. Lawrence Turman Peter Stark Endowed Chair. Chair Graciously Funded by Ray Stark. Cool Batch Files Matrix on this page. Jack Epps Jack Oakie Endowed Chair in Comedy. Chair Graciously Funded by Victoria Oakie. Stephen K. Nenno Chair in Television Production. Chair Graciously Funded by Stephen K. Nenno. Judy Irola Conrad Hall Endowed Chair in Cinematography and Color Timing. Chair Graciously Funded by The George Lucas Family Foundation and Steven Spielberg. Doe Mayer Mary Pickford Endowed Chair. Chair Graciously Funded by the Mary Pickford Foundation. Todd Boyd Katherine and Frank Price Chair for the Study of Race and Popular Culture. Chair Graciously Funded by Katherine and Frank Price. Ellen Seiter Stephen K. Nenno Endowed Chair in Television Studies. Chair Graciously Funded by Stephen K.