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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.

Also, it is famous for turning down Steven Spielberg's application for undergraduate studies. Ironically, he is now on the school's board of directors.

The program is one of the most competitive specialty schools, accepting 150 out of roughly 14,000 undergraduate applicants each year.

Since 1973, not a year has passed without an alumnus being nominated for an Academy Award.

1 Areas of Study

• Animation
• Critical Studies
• Production
• Screenwriting
• Producing

2 Famous alumni

• John CarpenterThis article is about the director, for the composer see John Alden Carpenter. John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film music composer. Born in Carthage, New York and raised in Bow
• Conrad HallConrad L. Hall ( 1927- January 4, 2003) was a top-billed Hollywood cinematographer. A three-time Academy Award-winner, he received Oscars for shooting Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), American Beauty (1999), and Road to Perdition (2002). The son
• Ron HowardRon Howard (born March 1, 1954 in Duncan, Oklahoma) is an American actor, film director, and producer. Ron Howard first appeared in the role of Opie Taylor in the television series The Andy Griffith Show, portraying the son of the local sheriff in Mayberr
• James IvoryThere are two famous individuals named James Ivory James Ivory (mathematician) James Ivory (director).
• Richard KellyRichard Kelly (born 28 March, 1975) is an American film director, best known for 2001's Donnie Darko. He is a graduate of the USC School of Cinema-Television. Another Richard Kelly is an American politician accused but ultimately not convicted of taking b
• Jon Landau
• George LucasGeorge Walton Lucas Jr (born May 14, 1944) is an American film director famous for his epic Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies. Star Wars in 1977 is considered by some to be the first " high concept" film, although others feel the first was Steven Spie
• Walter MurchWalter Murch ( 1943 ) started editing sound with Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People''. From there, he worked on American Graffiti and The Godfather, Part II before winning an Oscar for his efforts with sound in The Conversation''. He has directed one
• Jay Roach
• Bryan Singer
• John Singleton
• Stephen Sommers
• Lee Unkrich
• Robert Zemeckis
• Laura Ziskin