Sloan Science in Film Awards

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The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awards grants to films at various stages of development that tackle science and technology themes and characters.^[1] The Foundation focuses on awarding films that focus on science or technology as a theme, or depict a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character. The juries that determine the awardees are comprised of film and science industry professionals.^[2]

The Sloan Foundation is an American philanthropic nonprofit organization. It was established in 1934 by Alfred P. Sloan Jr., then-president and chief executive officer of General Motors.^[3][4][5][6] In addition to funding film, television, and radio productions through the mission for Public Understanding,^[7] the Sloan Foundation supports basic scientific research, which lies at the core of the Foundation's mission.^[8]

The Museum of the Moving Image hosts the only comprehensive database of these 750+ media projects and their makers dating back to 1995. The database is sortable by award, granting institution, and scientific subject matter.^[1]

The Awards include the prestigious Sundance Institute Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, accompanied by a $25,000 cash prize^[9] and awards given to students and alumni of educational institutions including the USC School of Cinematic Arts; NYU Tisch School of the Arts; American Film Institute; UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television; Carnegie Mellon University; and Columbia University School of the Arts.^[10]

Notable past recipients include Michael Almereyda,^{[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]} Damien Chazelle,^[22][23] Werner Herzog,^[24][25] Ken Burns, Christopher Nolan,^[26][27] Ridley Scott,^[28] Kogonada,^[29][30] Chiwetel Ejiofor,^{[31][32][33][34][35][36]} Darren Aronofsky, Julian Schnabel, Nicholas Ma, Theodore Melfi,^[37] Morten Tyldum,^[38] Adam McKay,^[39] Mike Cahill, Jake Schreier, Jennifer 8. Lee,^{[40][41][42][43][44]} Aneesh Chaganty, Matt Johnson,^[45][46] Alexis Gambis, Nuotama Bodomo, and Francis Lee.^[47][48]

Notable supported projects include Oppenheimer,^[26][27] Primer,^[49] The Martian,^[28] Embrace of the Serpent,^[50] Hidden Figures,^[37][51] The Imitation Game,^[38] Don't Look Up,^[39] After Yang,^[29][30] Searching,^[52] Ammonite,^[48] Grizzly Man,^[24][25] First Man,^[22][23] The Fountain, I Origins, The Stanford Prison Experiment,^{[53][54][55][56]} The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Another Earth, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,^{[31][32][33][34][35][36]} The Aeronauts,^[57] Agora, Robot & Frank,^{[58][59][60][61]} The Man Who Knew Infinity, Computer Chess, Kinsey, Tesla, Experimenter, Marjorie Prime,^{[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]} Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, Coded Bias,^[62][63][51] The Catcher Was a Spy, To Dust,^[64][65][66] BlackBerry,^[45][67] Basmati Blues, and many others...^[47]