The body that hands out the Oscars honoured Kristina Yee’s film, Miss Todd, with a gold medal at a ceremony at the Academy’s headquarters in Beverly Hills. She received the award from the actor and director Clark Gregg.
Miss Todd is a stop-frame musical about the first woman to design and build an aeroplane. Yee made it at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire, where last year’s Oscar-nominated short animation Head Over Heels was also made.
Previous winners of the Student Academy Awards have gone on to secure forty six Oscar nominations – and eight wins.