Eleven students from six colleges and universities were honored June 9, 2007, as winners in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 34th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. For several days, they participated in a slate of industry-related activities and social events culminating in the awards ceremony, which featured actress Zooey Deschanel, director John Landis, and Academy President Sid Ganis as presenters, at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
The awards are granted in four categories: alternative, animation, documentary, and narrative. .A student from Germany received this year's Honorary Foreign Film Award. Kun-I Chang, School of Visual Arts, New York, for his work, Fission, won the gold medal in alternative category.