Actor Michael McKean presented the Gold Medal Student Academy Award® in the Animation Category to Don Phillips Jr.

While the U.S.-based students knew they would each receive an award, the level of that award - gold, silver or bronze - was not revealed until the ceremony. Besides trophies, gold medal winners receive $5,000; silver medal winners are awarded $3,000 and bronze medal winners take home $2,000.

Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Freida Lee Mock presented the awards in the documentary category; Oscar^®-nominated screenwriter Alexander Payne presented the Honorary Foreign Film Award and the medals in the alternative category and Actors Branch member Michael McKean served as presenter for the narrative and animation categories.

These students first competed in one of three regional competitions. Each region was permitted to send the Academy as many as three films in each of the four categories. The finalist films were then screened and voted on by Academy members to select the winners.

Academy Award®-winning documentary filmmaker Freida Lee Mock presented the Gold Medal Student Academy Award for the Documentary Category to the Northwestern University student Pin Pin Tan.

The Honorary Foreign Film winner, who received a $1,000 cash grant, was selected from a pool of 33 entries from 23 countries. This is the third time a student from the National Film School of Denmark has won this award. Reza Parsa won in 1996 for his film "Never," and in 1983, Ingrid Oustrup Jensen received the award for her film "Over My Dead Body."

The Student Academy Awards were established by the Academy in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level.

A complete list of 2002 Student Academy Awards Winners may be found here.