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Alumni
Alumni Awards
Academy Award Nominees
1997 Mark Andrus (AMPAS Best Screenplay, "As Good As It Gets")
1995 Sven Baldvinsson (AMPAS Best Foreign Film, Iceland, "Tears of Stone")
1989 Ehrich Van Lowe (AMPAS Short Film "Cadillac Dreams")
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship Finalists
2003 Tina Datsko
2002 Torye Mullins
1992 Jon Cody
1990 Richard Krevolin
1989 Peter Chase
Emmy Award Winners & Nominees
2009
Paul M. J. Suchecki (winner,
"Outdoor Electrical Safety")
2005 Frederick Johnson (winner, "As The World Turns")
2003 Frederick Johnson ("All My Children")
2002 Frederick Johnson ("All My Children")
2001 Frederick Johnson ("All My Children")
2001 Ehrich Van Lowe ("Even Stevens")
2001 Jacob Sager Weinstein ("Dennis Miller Live")
1998 Frederick Johnson (winner, "All My Children")
1997 Frederick Johnson (winner, "All My Children")
1996 Frederick Johnson (winner, "All My Children")
1992 Frederick Johnson (winner, "The Young and the Restless")
Writers Guild of America Award
2003 Frederick Johnson (winner, "All My Children")
2001 Jacob Sager Weinstein (winner, "Dennis Miller Live")
2001 Frederick Johnson (winner, "All My Children")
2000 Frederick Johnson (winner, "All My Children")
1998 Frederick Johnson (winner, "All My Children")
1997 Mark Andrus (winner, "As Good As It Gets")
1996 Frederick Johnson (winner, "All My Children")
Golden Globe Award
2001 Mark Andrus (nominee, "Life as a House")
1997 Mark Andrus (winner, "As Good As It Gets")
Best Seller List
ACE (Cable) Emmy Nominees
1990 Jill Beerman (Best Documentary)
Pushcart Prize
2005 Larry Whittaker (nomination, poetry)
2003 Morgan Akins (nomination, fiction)
2003 Millicent Borges (nomination, poetry)
2001 Charles Harper Webb
1987 Stephanie Nelson
Ed Moses Fiction Award Winners
2004 Kendra J. Ericson (honorable mention)
2003 Michael Zimmer
Devon O'Brien (honorable mention)
2002 Jerome Edwards
(honorable mention)
Jean Paik Schoenberg
Matt Grebow
2001 Vicky Jang (honorable mention)
Gazale Kohan-Bashiri
1998 Kristin Johnson
1999 Jody Gehrman (honorable mention)
Paul Suchecki
Drew Cherry
1997 Greg Miller
1996 Anita Haeems (honorable mention)
Carol Carpenter
1995 Graeme Fordyce
Rob Thompson (honorable mention)
Brian McCormick
1994 Ilie Ruby
Sophia Nardin (honorable mention)
1993 Jennifer Cecil (honorable mention)
Kimberly Heinrichs
1992 Lawrence Keel (honorable mention)
Jean Ardell
1991 Richard Krevolin (honorable mention)
Jennifer Perlman
1990 Steven Hartman
1989 Michael Wilds
1986 William Hart
National Book Award Nominees
2000 Ann Rowe Seaman (non-fiction)
Francesca Primus Prize
2008 EM Lewis ("Heads")
AWP/Intro Awards
2003 Sneha Abraham (nonfiction)
2001 Vicky Jang (fiction)
Brian Townsley (poetry)
1997 Patricia Wagner (poetry)
1992 Catherine Davidson (poetry)
Jessie Wilson (nonfiction)
1990 Heather McGehee (poetry)
Jennifer Perlman (fiction)
1988 Conlin Wagner (fiction)
Book-of-the-Month Stephen Crane Award
2000 Catherine Temma DavidsonPen/Nelson Algren Fiction Award
1987 Conlin WagnerPlayboy College Fiction Contest
2006 James Jordan (finalist)
2002 Morgan Akins (winner)
Edgar Allan Poe Award for Fiction
1979 Ehrich Van Lowe (winner)
Exposurama Screenplay Competition
2009 Joseph Kenny, Grand Prize Winner
Texas Institute of Letters Prize
2000 Ann Rowe Seaman, winnerNissan FOCUS Awards (awarded until 1990)
1990 Screenwriting second place Paolo Mazzucato A Nice Italian Girl
1990 Documentary second place Elise Fried Do You Take This Man: Arranged Pakistani Marriages
1990 Documentary third place Judy Hecht Dumontet Homeboys
1990 Documentary fourth place John Axelrad and Stephen Lewis Play is the Work of Children
1990 Documentary Film Editing Award David Mrazek and Alexandria Levitt When the News Went to New Orleans
1990 Sound Achievement Award David Mrazek When the News Went to New Orleans
1990 The Women in Film Foundation Award Elise Fried Do You Take This Man: Arranged Pakistani Marriages
1989 Screenwriting third place James Middleton Heat Lightning
1989 Documentary Film first place Dr. Lance A. Gentile MD Stat
1989 Documentary Film second place Brian Fairlee My Friends My Friends
1989 Documentary Film fourth place Marc Smerling Driving the American Dream
1989 Sound Achievement Steve Grossman Stat
1989 Documentary Film Editing Dr. Charles Davis MD and Vanick Moradian Stat
1988 Narrative Film second place Beverlyn Fray The Long Walk Home
1988 Narrative Film third place Stephan Woloszczuk Three Piece
1988 Narrative Film fourth place Stephen Sommers Perfect Alibi
1988 Screenwriting second place John Cork The Long Walk Home
1988 Documentary Film second place Danny Marks and Toby Fleming Gang Cops
1988 Documentary Film fourth place Ellen Frankenstein Miles From the Border
1988 Narrative Film Editing Cynthia Kaplan and Burt Barba Three Piece
1988 Documentary Film Editing Bonita Winer and John Loll Gang Cops
1988 Narrative Cinematography Bob Jeffers and Glenn R. Cote Three Piece
1987 Narrative film first place Mary Beth Fielder Tell Me
1987 Documentary Film first place David Hartwell Wise Guys!
1987 Documentary Film third place Laura Scheerer Whitney and Andrew Milstein Addressless
1987 Documentary Cinematography Andrew Milstein Addressless
1987 Narrative Cinematography Mark Parry and Harry Zimmerman Dirty Little Secrets
1987 Documentary Film Editing Nila Bogue and Jim Whitney Addressless
1987 Renee Valente Producers’ Award Scott Peterson Mardi Gras
1986 Documentary Film second place Torv Carlsen and John Magnus Knocking on Armageddon’s Door
1986 Documentary Film fourth place Karen Croner Between April and May
1986 Film Editing Shawn Hardin and Scott Greene Knocking on Armageddon’s Door
1986 Documentary Cinematography Jamie Enomoto and Jeffrey Fine Knocking on Armageddon’s Door
1985 Narrative Film first place Camille Thomasson Heroes
1985 Narrative Film second place Phil Joanou Jr. The Last Chance Dance
1985 Film Editing Karen Croner and Mona Campanella Baer Heroes
1985 Cinematography Award Robert Brinkmann and John Schwartzman The Last Chance Dance
1985 Women in Film Award Camille Thomasson Heroes
1984 Narrative Filmmaking fourth place Greg Beeman The Big Garage
1984 Narrative Filmmaking fourth place (tie) Elizabeth Storer Catch the Golden Ring
1984 Documentary Filmmaking first place Jeff Belker The Last of the One Night Stands
1984 Film Editing Michael Salomon The Last of the One Night Stands
1984 Women in Film Award Elizabeth Storer Catch the Golden Ring
1983 Live Action Filmmaking third place Mollie Miller Serious Minded Stuff
1983 Film Editing Juliette Yager Sunday is My Free Space
1982 Live Action Filmmaking first place Larry Pederson Juxtaposition
1982 Live Action Filmmaking fourth place William Rus Least Likely
1982 Screenwriting third place Phil Sherwood Show Me the Way
1982 Screenwriting fourth place Laura M. Mauney The Bus
1982 Film Editing Stephen Howell The Rain
1981 Live Action Filmmaking first place Albert Magnoli Jazz
1981 Sound Achievement David Wild Jazz
1981 Film Editing Albert Magnoli Jazz
1981 Live Action Filmmaking fourth place Stephen R. Johnson Homebody
1981 Live Action Filmmaking place unknown Sean Phillips Armageddon
1981 Screenwriting first place James Sadwith The Match
1979 Filmmaking first place Dwight Little Americano
1978 Filmmaking first place Steven Wilson Recorded Live
1978 Filmmaking second place Pat Tooke Morrison A Man is a Man for All That
1977 Filmmaking first place Fred Burns Roll ‘Em Lola
1977 Filmmaking third place Dan Mason No Breaks
1977 Film Studies (Criticism) second place Christopher Vanonis
McDonalds/New Dramatist Award
1984 Daniel Du PlantisCBS/Dramatists Guild National Play Finalist
1985 Daniel DuPlantisEugene O'Neill National Theatre Conference
1988 Louis CiminoAcademy of American Poets Prize Winners
1983 Charles Webb
1986 Natalie Costanza
1987 Pamela Main
1988 Jennifer Wootton
1989 Heather McGehee
1990 Catherine Davidson,
Michael Wilds
1991 Thomas Curwen
1993 Penny Barker (honorable mention)
Millicent Borges
1994 Lara Naughton
1995 Victoria Tapscott (honorable mention)
1996 Graeme Fordyce
1997 Brian McCormick
Ulli Ryder
1999 Laurel Ann Bogen
2000
Rio Hernandez (honorable mention)
Emily Lundin
2001 Kwala Mandel
Paris Review International Poetry Prize
2003 Millicent Borges, finalist
2002 Bryan Dietrich, winner
Chesterfield Screenwriting Prize
2000 Jay Fisher (Finalist)
2002 Tom Dolby (Finalist)
2003 Adam Rodin(Finalist)
Thessaloniki Film Festival
2003 Elena Penga, winner, Best Picture
Sundance Institute and Film Festival
2003 Tina Datsko (Finalist - filmmaker fellow)
2000 Chaton Anderson (Feature Film Selection - Sundance Festival)
Newport Beach Film Festival
2001 Amy Dawes
(Feature Screening)
Montreal Film Festival
2002 Tina Datsko (Audience Award)
New Orleans Film Festival
2003 Nancy Dodd Cates (Audience Award)
Ovation Award
2001 Kristin Hanggi, winner
Final Draft National Screenwriting Prize
2002 Torye Mullins (Grand Prize – "Breathing Underwater")
Writer's Digest Prizes
2000 Samantha Plotkin (Honorable Mention – Screenwriting)
1996, 1994
Michael Miller (Honorable Mention – Playwriting)
Thrillspy Festival
2009 Michael Mandaville (Winner, Best Novel forStealing Thunder)
Sloan Foundation Screenwriting Award
1998 Priyanka Kumar (Winner)
Environmental Media Award
2000 Michael Donovan (Winner, Children's Live Action for "The Good Neighbor" )
Fade-In Screenwriting Award
2003 Pete Edwards (Finalist)
2001 Craig Berger (Finalist)
National Playwriting Awards
2007 Cynthia Ferrell (Tennessee Williams/New Orleans One-Act Play Festival, Finalist
2003 Joni Winn Hilton (Beyond the Proscenium Theater Prize, Winner)
2003 Lisa Haviland (Long Island Theater Three One Act Festival, Finalist)
2002 Ginna Carter (Washington DC Theater Festival at Kennedy Center)
1998 Harlene Goodrich (Colleagues Theatre of New York Festival Winner)
1997 Daniel Du Plantis (Julie Harris National Playwright Award Winner)
1997 Lee Wochner (Dramalogue Award, "Best Play")
1997 Alexandra Morgan Kumu Kahua/U. of Hawaii Playwright's Prize Winner)
1997 Ronda Spinak (Portland One Act Festival Winner, Ninth Mill Mountain Theate New Play Competition, Panowski Playwrighting Award Finalist)
1996 Michael Miller (Artistic & Literary Resources New Play Search, Redondo Beach, Finalist)
1995 Michael Miller (Artistic & Literary Resources New Play Search, Redondo Beach, Finalist)
1994 Richard Krevolin (Eugene O'Neill Theater Festival Finalist)
1994 Dan Du Plantis (Key West Theater Festival Winner)
1994 Ruth Franklin (New York Shakespeare Festival Winner)
1993 Charles Freerick (Ball State U. Full-Length Winner)
1993 Harlene Goodrich (Dubuqoe Fine Arts One-Act Play Winner)
1992 Alexandra Morgan (Henrico Theatre Co. One-Act Play Winner)
1991 Daniel Du Plantis (Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati New Works Finalist)
1991 Daniel Du Plantis (Theatre Memphis New Play Finalist)
1989 Marlane Meyer (PEN Center USA West Literary Award for Drama)
1982 Haris Orkin (ACT Festival Winner)
Donald Davis Award Winners in drama and screenwriting (awarded until 1988)
1986 Mitchell Rossi
1984 Mark Forror
L.A. Arts Council Winners (awarded until 1992)
1991 Lawrence Keel (fiction)
1990 Jennifer Perlman (fiction)
1989 Tina Datsko (poetry)
1988 Gina Barkhordar-Nahai (fiction)
1987 Conlin Wagner (fiction)
1986 Jeffrey Bender (drama)
1985 Adrienne Subotnik (fiction)
Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Grant
2004 Lisa Muscate Sandoval (poetry)
Phi Kappa Phi Winners
Founded in 1897, Phi Kappa Phi is the oldest interdisciplinary honor society at USC. Its annual awards recognize faculty, graduate, and undergraduate creative and scholarly achievements
2007 J.J. Strong
2006 Cynthia Ferrell
Timothy M. Green
2005 Kaytie M. Lee
Melissa Rosen
2004 Devon O'Brien
2002 Karen Carissimo
Katherine Goodman
2001 Torye Mullins
Shahan Sanossian
Melissa Yancy
2000 Daniel C. Beck
Nancy Dodd Cates
1998
Kelly Quimby
Paul Hansom
1997 Carol M. Carpenter
Brian M. McCormick
1996 Paul Michels
Sophia Nardin
(honorable mention)
Duane Rue
1995 Michael Khandelwal
Ilie Ruby
Lara Naughton (honorable mention)
Elizabeth Bahn (honorable mention)
1993 Michael Khandelwal
1992 Laura Cottam
1991 Catherine Davidson (honorable mention)
Alexandra Morgan
Heather McGehee
Kevin Murphy
Richard Drevolin
1990 Lawrence Keel (honorable mention)
Steven Hartman
1989 Tina Datsko
1988 Tina Datsko
1987 Cherilyn Cummings
Brad Henderson
Conlin Wagner (honorable mention)
Jill Beerman
Stepanie Nelson
1986 Gina Barkhordarian (Nahai)
1985 Adrienne Subotnik
1983 Douglas Cazort
Michael Donovan
USC Outstanding Graduate Teaching Fellows Award
1998 Michael Khandelwal
1994 Michael Khandelwal
1991 Lisa Foster
1991 Catherine Davidson
1990 Catherine Davidson
USC Master's Thesis Awards (awarded until 1991)
1990 James Ghormley (nonfiction)
1989 Ruth Franklin (playwriting)
1988 Gina Barkhordar-Nahai (fiction)