Published: Aug. 30, 2018

The CU 麻豆影院 Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts has made The Hollywood Reporter鈥檚 list of the听in the nation.

The department, formerly the Film Studies Program at the 麻豆影院, hailed the recognition by the top trade journal in the movie industry.听

鈥淔or an academic unit like ours, this is comparable to a mention in the听US News & World Report鈥攁t least for minor bragging rights,鈥 said Ernesto Acevedo-Mu帽oz, professor and chair of the department.

He continued: 鈥淭his humble feather in our cap joins the list of honors such as the Film Society of Lincoln Center naming in 2010听five听of our faculty among most important experimental filmmakers of the last decade, and our naming as 鈥楤est in the West in Cinematography鈥 by听MovieMaker听magazine in 2017.鈥

Mu帽oz added, 鈥淵es, we came in at #25 among the 鈥楾op 25,鈥 but we鈥檒l take it.鈥

In June, the CU Board of Regents voted to rename the Film Studies Program and to grant it the status of a department.听

Acevedo-Mu帽oz said the move made听de jurewhat is already the听de factoplace of the unit in the College of Arts and Sciences.听

At the time of the vote, he added, 鈥淥ur students are better served graduating from a department rather than a program, which might be erroneously perceived as having somewhat lesser standards or rigor.鈥