NYU likes Oscars.

Ang Lee, the diretor of Brokeback Mountain who is suppose to win the Academy Award for best director was an NYU Masters student in Film Production. When he was at NYU, he worked with Spike Lee as an Assistant Director in Lee's student film, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983).

Former pulitzer playwriter Tony Kushner, who is nominated in the best screenplay category for his work on Steven Spielberg's Munich, studied Directing at New York University where he graduated in 1984.

Felicity Huffman, nominated in the "Actress In A Leading Role" category for her performance in Transamerica was a BFA student in Drama at Tisch School of the Arts in 1988. One year later Philip Seymour Hoffman, who is already a Golden Globe winner, obtained his BFA from the same NYU school and is now nominated for the best "Actor In A Leading Role" category for Capote.

John Canemaker, current Tisch faculty member is nominated in the animation category for his short film The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation.

NYU rocks.