The American Film Institute, USC, UCLA, NYU and Columbia were among the schools that will be represented at the 2012 Student Academy Awards ceremony on June 9.

Those schools were home to some of the 10 students who were named winners of this year's Student Oscars, which the Academy announced on Tuesday.

Winners were announced in the alternative, animation, documentary and narrative categories, with half the winners coming from Southern California film schools: two from AFI, the only school to have more than one winner, and one each from USC, UCLA and CalArts.

Other schools with winners included NYU, Columbia, Ringling College of Art and Design, American University and, for the first time, Art Institute of Jacksonville.

Although voters can choose up to two films in the alternative category, they opted for a single winner, "The Reality Clock"...

It used to be so simple.

The Primetime Emmy Awards honored television's marquee programs, the ones that everybody watched in the same place and at the same time: on network broadcasts that took place Monday through Saturday from 8 to 11 p.m. (7 to 10 Central), Sunday from 7 to 10.

And then, for good measure, the Emmys threw in the news shows that preceded those primetime blocks, and the late-night programming that followed them.

But today's television landscape is dramatically different, and the primetime designation is gradually – or not so gradually – becoming almost irrelevant.

Shows originate on the web, or start on traditional television and migrate to the...

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is two weeks away from announcing its architect and six months away from meeting its initial $100 million goal and launching a public fundraising campaign, according to its two newly appointed managing directors.

Heather Cochran and Bill Kramer, who were named to the newly created posts on Wednesday, told TheWrap that they expect the long-delayed but recently revived museum project to have a full head of steam by the winter of 2012, with the financing secured and design and concept sketches made public.

Cochran, who has served as Museum Project Administrator for the Academy since May 2004, was promoted to Managing Director, Academy Museum Project, a...

The Academy isn't ready to move the Oscars quite yet. But they've definitely thought about it.

That's the takeaway from Wednesday's AMPAS announcement that the 85th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, Feb. 24, the typical last-Sunday-in-February slot for an Oscar show, but nominations for the golden statuettes will be revealed much earlier than usual.

The Academy's Board of Governors set the Oscar date Tuesday night after years of speculation that they would move the ceremony to early February or even late January in an attempt to trim the marathon awards season and keep the nominated movies fresher in the minds of potential viewers.

There was good reason to...