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Jason Reitman has been group to present nan commencement reside during this year’s graduation ceremonial for nan USC School of Cinematic Arts.
The event, to return spot May 15 astatine nan Shrine Auditorium, will besides spot Wicked and Wicked: For Good cinematography Alice Brooks person nan Mary Pickford Alumni Award.
Reitman attended USC. Brooks graduated from nan School of Cinematic Arts successful 2001.
“We are excited to invited 2 of our accomplished alumni backmost to USC to thief usher our latest cohort of graduating students into nan master world,” said Elizabeth M. Daley, dean of nan USC School of Cinematic Arts. “Jason and Alice are responsible for immoderate of nan astir beloved films of nan past fewer years, and are having nan kinds of careers our students dream about. Their beingness unsocial will beryllium inspirational, but I cognize our students are looking guardant to their words of proposal and encouragement.”
Reitman is simply a four-time Oscar nominee who was nominated doubly for Best Director: successful 2008 for Juno and 2010 for Up successful nan Air. Wicked director Jon M. Chu gave past year’s commencement reside astatine nan school, nan latest successful a statement of manufacture names that includes Paul Feig, Jim Gianopulos, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Donna Langley, Miky Lee and George Lucas among others.
The Pickford Award pays tribute to alumni whose achievements bring typical favoritism to nan assemblage and nan industry. Brooks, who made films pinch Chu during their clip astatine USC, has credits that see lensing Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tick, Tick … Boom! and In nan Heights. She is presently moving connected Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: Beyond nan Spider-Verse.
Brooks is besides connected nan USC School of Cinematic Arts Dean’s Alumni Leadership Council.
