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The School’s founding faculties include Douglas Fairbanks , D.W. Griffith , William C. DeMille , Ernst Lubitsch , Irving Thalberg , and Darryl Zanuck . Notable professors include Drew Casper , the Alma and Alfred Hitchcock Professor of American Film, Tomlinson Holman , inventor of THX , and Mark Jonathan Harris , documentary filmmaker. The program is one of USC's most competitive specialty schools, accepting 150 out of roughly 1000 applicants each year. It is notorious for turning down Steven Spielberg 's application for undergraduate studies twice. Ironically, he is now on the school's board of directors, and a Trustee of the University. Many of the School’s famous alumni, friends and companies have joined forces to fund a world-class film and television complex at USC. Their gifts and ongoing support have enabled the School to build some of the top facilities and equipment of any film school anywhere. AREAS OF STUDY
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USC CINEMA AND ACADEMY AWARDS Since 1965 , not a year has passed without an alumnus being nominated for an Academy Award ; and alumni have held key creative or production positions in 8 of the 10 highest grossing movies in history. As of 2006, producer John Longenecker is the first and only USC Cinema student to receive an Academy Award for a film produced while attending USC Cinema classes -- The Resurrection Of Broncho Billy (1970) - best live action short film. '''Nick Castle''' was the cinematographer, '''John Carpenter''' was the film editor and wrote the original theme music for the picture, and '''James Rokos''' was the film director. John Longenecker named the group of talented filmmakers he brought together at USC '''The Super Crew''' and each of the four filmmakers made contributions to the story. The lead actor in the film was Johnny Crawford and together with John Longenecker talked executives at Universal Studios into releasing the picture theatrically. It opened on December 25, 1970, at the Mann National theater in Westwood for a one week Academy qualifying run, and played there for fourteen weeks. After winning an Oscar, Universal Studios distributed the short film with their feature movies for the next two years throughout the United States and Canada. | ||
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