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This year, Columbia alums and faculty are prominently featured in the Under The Radar Festival.
Columbia alums picked up several nominations and two awards at the 2026 Golden Globe Awards last night, when Hollywood celebrated the best and brightest of TV and film at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
After honing her filmmaking skills at Columbia, the writer-director went on to create one of Hollywood’s most successful franchises.
Valeria Contreras '23 has been selected by The National Association of Latino Independent Producers to join Netflix's fifth cohort of its Director Incubator.
This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia University School of the Arts' professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Adjunct Senior Research Scholar Frank Rose about the power of narrative and the future of storytelling.
MFA Film student Cameron Clay was named one of the four winners of the 7th Annual Focus Features Student Short Film Showcase, part of the Gotham Awards.
Acting alum Dave Register '15 stars in the second season of the Amazon Prime series Fallout, which premiered December 17 with new episodes coming out until mid-February. Register, who plays the role of Chet, was also a part of the first season and is slated to be part of the third season as well.
Associate Professor Wendy S. Walters has been awarded an Independent Project Grant from the NYSCA and Architecture League.
Adjunct Assistant Professor and Writing alum Miranda Mazariegos '25 has been awarded a 2025 Granum Foundation Translation Prize, awarded each year to support US-based translators as they complete a work of translation into English.
Don’t Be Late, Myra, a short film by Afia Nathaniel '03, is enjoying a stellar turn on the festival circuit, having won more than twelve awards, including the Oscar-qualifying Best Short Film at the Asian World Film Festival.
Elena Dudum '23 has been awarded a prestigious work-in-progress grant from the Whiting Foundation for her memoir, They Told Me The Way Back Home Would Be Beautiful. The book is forthcoming from One Signal Publishers.
This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia University School of the Arts' professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk to Linda Marvel about the importance of committing to your craft, the value of hands-on experience, and the transformative power of theatre.
Multidisciplinary Visual Arts alum Kevin Cobb '23 has a new solo exhibition, Optic Nerve, at Turley Gallery in Hudson, New York.
Four films helmed by Columbia alums selected to participate in Film Independent Fast Track program.
Pulitzer prize winner, former poet laureate, Poetry alum, and current professor at Harvard, Tracy K. Smith '97 has published a new book, Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times, with Norton Press.