The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation gives grants to students at six of the nation's leading
film schools: American Film Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia University School of
the Arts, New York University, UCLA, and the University of Southern California.
| Title | Grantee | Year | Category | School |
| The Lost Coast | Kathryn Bancroft | 2012 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Mary & the Moon | Dawn Spinella | 2012 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| The Nose Hare | Louis Morton | 2012 | Production | USC |
| To Boldly Go | Peter J. Roth | 2012 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| When Dinosaurs Roamed the Earth | Avram Dodson | 2012 | Screenwriting | Columbia |
| Mary & the Moon | Dawn Spinella | 2012 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| The Tender Peel | Ricardo Pérez González | 2012 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| The King's Pawn | Darren AndersonJonah Bleicher | 2012 | Production | Columbia |
| Hildegard's Heir | Jessica Baclesse | 2012 | Screenwriting | Columbia |
| Edge of Manhattan | David McCracken | 2012 | Production | USC |
| The Diamond in the Sky | Kate Mickere | 2012 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| Bypass | Liliana Greenfield-Sanders | 2011 | Feature Production | NYU |
| The Collector's Gift | Ryan Kravetz | 2011 | Production | USC |
| Penny Stock | Grainger David | 2011 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Fault Zone | Liz Ellison | 2011 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| Visible Proof | Gabil Sultanov | 2011 | Production | USC |
| First in Flight | Brandon HessTara TuckerPetr Cikhart Eugenio Richer Whitney Donald |
2011 | Production | AFI |
| The Chamber | Eugenio Villamar | 2011 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| Negative Gs | Keith Hedlund | 2011 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| Sin Dolor | Joseph Greco | 2011 | Production | NYU |
| How I Learned to Love Ketchup | Dan O'Neil | 2011 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| Born by Fire | Morgan von Ancken | 2011 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Three Light Bulbs | Min Ding | 2011 | Production | Columbia |
| Yellow Rain | L. Warren Thompson | 2011 | Production | USC |
| Red Hot Scoville | Andrew Stamper | 2011 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| Send More Chuck Berry | Noah Miller | 2011 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| Marburg | Jeremy Morris | 2011 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Letters to the Lobotomist | Adam Weissman | 2010 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Unmanned | Casey Cooper Johnson | 2010 | Production | AFI |
| Mme. Curie | Elizabeth Cotone | 2010 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Dear Radioactive One | Dan O'Neil | 2010 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| Druid Peak | Marni Zelnick | 2010 | Feature Production | NYU |
| Willowbrook | Ross Cohen | 2010 | Production | USC |
| Magnetic | Carolyn Kras | 2010 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| The Common Man | Anna Parry | 2010 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| Out of the Blue | Maggie Tran | 2010 | Production | UCLA |
| Flood | Katy Scoggin | 2010 | Production | NYU |
| Second | Jordan Hansen | 2010 | Production | USC |
| Where the Sky Is Born | Freddy Gaitan | 2010 | Production | USC |
| On the Wall | Marie DvorakovaMicah Schaffer | 2010 | Production | NYU |
| You Can't Patent the Sun | Meg Gifford | 2010 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| Project Alpha | Noah Miller | 2010 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| Valley of Saints | Musa Syeed | 2009 | Production | NYU |
| Three Gorges | Jennifer Cho | 2009 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Temma | Anya Meksin | 2009 | Production | Columbia |
| The Infidel | Alexander Davidson | 2009 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Paracusia | Christopher Dreisbach | 2009 | Production | AFI |
| The Good Side | Georgia Lin | 2009 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| Terrebonne | Jeremy Craig | 2009 | Production | Columbia |
| Lawrence and Brie | CC Chainey | 2009 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Blame It On My Youth | Olive Gallagher | 2009 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| Snow | Isaac Ergas | 2009 | Production | USC |
| Whale Watcher | Jessica Ellis | 2009 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| Recognizing Morgan | Marque Franklin-Williams | 2009 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| Cardigan Bay | Anna Parry | 2009 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| Bystander | Robert Cohen | 2009 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| The Wizard of Sussex | Matthew Nolte Evans | 2009 | Screenwriting | Columbia |
| Zero | Kimberly Townes | 2009 | Production | UCLA |
| Salk | Dean Poynor | 2009 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| Permeable | Thenmozhi Soundararajan | 2009 | Production | USC |
| Signal | Chris Farrington | 2008 | Production | USC |
| Reality Clock | Amanda Tasse | 2008 | Production | USC |
| May | Jesse Israel | 2008 | Production | NYU |
| Grand Unification | Lauren Gunderson | 2008 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Mary Contrary | Kate Buhrmaster | 2008 | Screenwriting | Columbia |
| The Ten Commandments According to Leo Szilard | Maureen Geralyn Johnson | 2008 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| Boltzmann's Demon | James Sandlin Ashby | 2008 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| Forever Wild | Jeremy Craig | 2008 | Screenwriting | Columbia |
| Volition | Samantha Manahan | 2008 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| Charm School for Primates | Karen Odyniec | 2008 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Prisoner’s Dilemma | Robert Cohen | 2008 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Pox | Kristin Ellermann | 2008 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Play to Win | Sam Mandegaran | 2008 | Production | USC |
| Everybody Good | Stephen Leggitt | 2008 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| For All Mankind | Daniel Clifton | 2008 | Production | NYU |
| Elemental | Etana Jacobson | 2008 | Production | UCLA |
| The Unifying Theory | Edgar Mendoza | 2008 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| On the Twilight of Tomorrow | Alexander Davidson | 2008 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| The Magic Pill | Matt Pedrolie | 2008 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| Humbug | Xavier Tatarkiewicz | 2007 | Production | UCLA |
| Life in a Box | Nidhi Verghese | 2007 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| The Man Who Won The War | Matthew Bird | 2007 | Screenwriting | Columbia |
| Stereopsis | Joseph Singer | 2007 | Production | NYU |
| Stargazer | Madeleine Holly-Rosing | 2007 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| First In Flight | Charles William Coulter | 2007 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| The Witness | Ioana Maria Uricaru | 2007 | Production | USC |
| Passerine: A Bird Duet | Denise Iris | 2007 | Production | Columbia |
| Tymbals | Filippo Conz | 2007 | Production | Columbia |
| Mortal Coil | Michael Scotto | 2007 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| Healing Roots | France-Luce Benson | 2007 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| Ram Bambit | Aimee Gillette | 2007 | Production | NYU |
| SARAHN_12 | Sasie SealyMark Heyman | 2007 | Feature Production | NYU |
| A Day in March | Roberto Bentivegna | 2007 | Screenwriting | Columbia |
| The Profiteer | Ian Shorr | 2007 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Whaling City | Jay Burke | 2007 | Feature Production | Columbia |
| The Art of Underwater Navigation | Dylan Tuccillo | 2007 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| A Habitable World | Rebecca Nesvet | 2007 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| 11 Weeks | Dipesh Jain | 2007 | Production | USC |
| Through the Air to Calais | Joseph MauceriSeth KamphuijsJonathan Eisen | 2007 | Production | AFI |
| Sanctuary | Suzanne Kane | 2006 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| The Ecdysiasts | Mary F. Unser | 2006 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| The Time Traveler | Debra Isaac | 2006 | Production | USC |
| Divine Mistress | Christina Eliason | 2006 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| La Philosophe | Christina Eliason | 2006 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| Special Theory of Relativity | Nick Lawrence | 2006 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Chandra | Bradley Richie | 2006 | Screenwriting | USC |
| The Mighty Hercules | Kim SpurlockDavid K. Chan | 2006 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Between Blood and Sand | Mark Apicella | 2006 | Production | USC |
| Strings | Crystal Us | 2006 | Production | UCLA |
| The Young Dr. Jensen | Diana Fithian | 2006 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| One of a Kind | Tatiana Krokar | 2006 | Production | USC |
| Monkey Trials | Christopher Dimond | 2006 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| Kadya | Eleanor Burke | 2006 | Production | NYU |
| Relative State | Luc Des Groseillers | 2006 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| Extropy | Jonathan Sanden | 2006 | Production | NYU |
| Hailey's Comet | John Kazlauskas | 2006 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| 6 ft. in 7 min. | Rafael Del Toro | 2005 | Production | NYU |
| Atrocity | Adam Kargman | 2005 | Production | USC |
| Matatoro: The Bull Killer | John R. Baker | 2005 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| Barefoot | Maria Grund | 2005 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Rocket Man | Krisy Gosney | 2005 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| Whaling City | Jay Burke | 2005 | Screenwriting | Columbia |
| Dharini | Anupama PradhanSandra Valde-HansenJohn C. Brookins | 2005 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| SAAR | Pragya Tomar | 2005 | Production | USC |
| In Motion | James Darling | 2005 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| In Vivid Detail | Dara Bratt | 2005 | Production | NYU |
| The Turk | Jonathan Lincoln Auxier | 2005 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| Origin | Royal McGraw | 2005 | Screenwriting | USC |
| The Theory of Everything | Alon Aranya | 2005 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Hard-Boiled Country | Michael Tuviera | 2005 | Screenwriting | USC |
| The Haleman Limit | Ben Hayflick | 2005 | Screenwriting | Columbia |
| Love Chance | Mary F. Unser | 2005 | Production | Carnegie Mellon |
| The Flight of the African Clawed (Dwarf) Frog | Dean Fleischer-Camp | 2005 | Production | NYU |
| Sugar Water | Angela Cheng | 2005 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Larvae | Marcella SteingartDaniel Greenfield | 2005 | Production | NYU |
| The Death Strip | Nicole Haeusser | 2005 | Production | UCLA |
| Enchantress of Numbers | Shanee Edwards | 2005 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| Fire-Line | Tobin Addington | 2005 | Screenwriting | Columbia |
| The Season When Thunder Sleeps | Laurel Minter | 2004 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| The Pros and Cons of Breathing | Bill Balas | 2004 | Production | AFI |
| Notes in the Margins | Joseph Raso | 2004 | Screenwriting | Columbia |
| Rosalind's Helix | Susan Stanton | 2004 | Feature Production | NYU |
| The Three Body Solution | Alison Marek | 2004 | Production | NYU |
| The Visionary* *(Tesla) | Joel O. Shapiro | 2004 | Production | Columbia |
| Cryptic | Paige Macdonald | 2004 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| Emergent Behavior | Andrew Chambliss | 2004 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Godel's Proof | Adam Sugerman | 2004 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Chemistry Set | Taniya Hossain | 2004 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Chances Are | Joshua Kameyer | 2004 | Production | USC |
| Babyface | S. Casper Wong | 2004 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| The Young Blue Eyes | Tara Meddaugh | 2004 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| The Work of 50 Men | Lynne Kuemmel | 2004 | Production | Carnegie Mellon |
| Indelible | Mikki del MonicoRandall DottinMelanie R.W. Oram | 2004 | Feature Production | Columbia |
| Engines of War | H. Woods McLaughlin | 2004 | Screenwriting | USC |
| SOLID2D | John R. Baker | 2004 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| Lynx | Wynn Padula | 2004 | Production | UCLA |
| Melody of Clock and Arrow | Seth Dalton | 2004 | Production | USC |
| The Sound of Silence | Craig J. Weiner | 2004 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| Jibhi Trails | Anjali Walter | 2004 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| California King | Eli Akira Kaufman | 2003 | Production | UCLA |
| Haber | Daniel Ragussis | 2003 | Production | Columbia |
| The Speed of Light | Taniya Hossain | 2003 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Cure | Amy Slucter Taylor | 2003 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Bird in Hand | Janet McIntyre | 2003 | Production | NYU |
| Rosalind's Helix | Susan Stanton | 2003 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Afterbirth | Reginald Vinluan | 2003 | Production | USC |
| Skylab | Mark Landsman | 2003 | Production | AFI |
| Tangles | Adam B. Stein | 2003 | Production | USC |
| Robot and Frank | Christopher Ford | 2003 | Production | NYU |
| The Dam - A True Story | Marcelo Mitnik | 2003 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| The Day Without Yesterday | Calee Streza Lee | 2003 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| The Dry Season | Jesse Wheeler | 2003 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Kingdom of Shadows | Sallie Patrick | 2003 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| The Monster and the Peanut | Albert Crim | 2003 | Production | AFI |
| Derwin's Shadow | Peter Jensen | 2003 | Screenwriting | Columbia |
| Panther Lake | J.T. O'Neal | 2003 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| Volatile | Karen Sztajnberg | 2003 | Screenwriting | Columbia |
| Degeneration | Annie Baker | 2003 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Frankenfish | Kevin Christopher Snipes | 2003 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| The Science of Love | Joyce Draganosky | 2003 | Production | Columbia |
| Synapse | Lisa Robinson | 2002 | Feature Production | NYU |
| Tatiana | Craig Horning | 2002 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| Third Sight | Anthony R. Sciullo | 2002 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| Vavilov | Kris Holmes | 2002 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| The Likelihood of Feivish Monk | Michael Sugarman | 2002 | Production | NYU |
| I Remember | Luke Hutton | 2002 | Production | USC |
| High-Low | Vanessa Reisen | 2002 | Screenwriting | Columbia |
| Free Speech | David Rice | 2002 | Screenwriting | Columbia |
| Indelible | Mikki del Monico | 2002 | Screenwriting | Columbia |
| Inner Workings | Jeremy Bernstein | 2002 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Markings in Jade | Charles Bigelow | 2002 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| The Kite Messenger | Debra Bellon | 2002 | Production | UCLA |
| Flying Lessons | Kimberlie Nitti | 2002 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| Flight | Carter Anne McGowan | 2002 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Black Water | Clark Perry | 2002 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| Behind No One | Jake Johnson | 2002 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Boy in a Box | Seth Grossman | 2002 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Curie | Chris McCoy | 2002 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Feedback | Seth Grossman | 2002 | Production | NYU |
| The Disappearance of Andy Waxman | Till Osterland | 2002 | Production | Columbia |
| Mrs. Einstein | Sylvia Mulholland | 2002 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| Guinea Pig B | Norman Anderson | 2002 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Paprika | Katalin Nivelt Anguelov | 2002 | Production | USC |
| One More Volt | John P. Lavin | 2001 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| In the Mind of Kennewick | Victoria Marie Irigoyen | 2001 | Production | UCLA |
| Defending My Life | Michelle Hickey Shaw | 2001 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Just Enough | Eric Conner | 2001 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Joshua Tree | Jonathan Messer | 2001 | Production | AFI |
| Hidden Rain | Charles Bigelow | 2001 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| XP | David Barba | 2001 | Production | Columbia |
| Searching for Schrodinger's Cat | Yikuong Chen | 2001 | Production | USC |
| Quiver | Hugh Murtagh | 2001 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| The First Vampire | Jason Todd Ipson | 2001 | Production | USC |
| Bruises | Allan McDonald | 2001 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| The Wormhole | Jessica Sharzer | 2001 | Production | NYU |
| Birds with Teeth | Karen Dillon | 2001 | Screenwriting | Columbia |
| Instant Life | Rachal Zabar | 2001 | Production | NYU |
| Chasing Patterns | Monika Hennig | 2001 | Production | USC |
| Schrodinger's Cat | Nova Jacobs | 2001 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Brother's Keeper | Till Osterland | 2001 | Screenwriting | Columbia |
| Challenger | Nicole Perlman | 2001 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Brooklyn Bridge | Aiyana Berne Mary Warner McGrade |
2001 | Screenwriting | USC |
| The Skeptic | Ilya Lie-Nielsen | 2000 | Production | UCLA |
| Theremin: Out of the Ether | Brian E.F. Oakes | 2000 | Production | USC |
| Riding Fire | Denise Pullen | 2000 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| Worldliner | Daniel Papia | 2000 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| A Glimmer of Light | Greg Dawless | 2000 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| The Weathermen | Elise H. Greven | 2000 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Silverstreak | Joe Leih | 2000 | Screenwriting | Columbia |
| Metamorphosis | Monika Hennig | 2000 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Electrical Currency | Christopher Bradley | 2000 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| Still Life | Lucas Hnath | 2000 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Forever Yours | Susan Henderson | 2000 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Kuon Ganjo | Jim Knable | 2000 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| The Deep Six | Roger Rudick | 2000 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| In Theory | David Marmor | 2000 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Deus Ex Machina | John Zaozirny | 2000 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Immortal Shadows | Stephen Monteiro | 2000 | Screenwriting | Columbia |
| The Last of the Hunters | Rita M. Augustine | 2000 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| Eve, Too | Karen McClellan | 1999 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| Vision | Viktoria Obersovszky | 1999 | Production | UCLA |
| Butterfly Found | Dawn Costello Sellers | 1999 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| Seal-Boy | Brian Frank | 1999 | Production | NYU |
| The Virtue of Reality | Clay Haskell | 1999 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| Dead Wrong | Joram Schwartz | 1999 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| The Great Belzoni | Andrew Sieger | 1999 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| The Great Tyco Brahe | Jeff Woodward | 1999 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Semmelweis | Jim Berry | 1999 | Production | NYU |
| Return to Denali | Brian Joseph Smith | 1999 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| Ice Moon Europa | Rita M. Augustine | 1999 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| A September Spring | Andrea Lepcio | 1999 | Screenwriting | Carnegie Mellon |
| 11 Months | Michele Aldin | 1999 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| The Painting, the Machine and the Apple | Lucas Hnath | 1999 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Salk and Sabin | Edward Yoon-Peter | 1999 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Space: 2126 | Elizabeth G. Schroder | 1998 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| Concrete | Andy Watts | 1998 | Production | Columbia |
| Corporis Vesalius | Greg Pak | 1998 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Chasing Rainbows | Lise Broer | 1998 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Master Mind | Mercedes CoatsAmy Elliot | 1998 | Production | USC |
| Winnemuca Jones | Aurora M. Aguero | 1998 | Production | NYU |
| One Egg, Two Souls | Lise Gordon | 1998 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| Spilled Blood: The Life and Legend of Dr. Charles Drew | Steven Thrasher | 1998 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Cold Hearted | Mike Palmer | 1998 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| Black Blood | Gayle Jackson | 1998 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| Gray Matter | Anthony Dominici | 1998 | Production | AFI |
| Three Thousandths of a Degree | Viet Quoc Vu | 1998 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| The God Particle | Priyanka Kumar | 1998 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Muerto Canyon | Jennifer Peel | 1998 | Production | NYU |
| Korolev | Noah Laracy | 1998 | Screenwriting | USC |
| The Terrible Life of Ignaz Semmelweis | Sam Sloves | 1998 | Screenwriting | Columbia |
| The Knowledge Tree | David Ben Miller | 1998 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Paper Birds | Chelsey Chen | 1998 | Screenwriting | USC |
| The Shoulder of Giants | Daniel MacCannell | 1998 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| i | Stuart K. Sperling | 1998 | Production | USC |
| Alternating Currents | Jonathan Harris | 1997 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| Told to Die Like Soldiers | George Walczak | 1997 | Screenwriting | AFI |
| Jornada del Muerto | Matthaeus Szumanski | 1997 | Production | UCLA |
| The Shy and the Naked | Sean Hood | 1997 | Production | USC |
| The Last Harvest | Daniel Kaufman | 1997 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| Lords of Light | Jeffrey Stanley | 1997 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| Joliana | Carlos Vila | 1997 | Production | AFI |
| The Geneticist | Gerry Suenram | 1997 | Screenwriting | UCLA |
| Death of a Broken Heart | John Travis Harrison | 1997 | Production | NYU |
| Uranium | James E. Taylor | 1997 | Screenwriting | USC |
| Fighting the Sky | Matthew Mogk | 1997 | Screenwriting | NYU |
| The Fledglings | Jessica Ann Bortman | 1997 | Production | UCLA |
| Whom the Gods Love | Edward Ortiz | 1997 | Screenwriting | NYU |