Editing Boston University (section)

===Film and television===
[[File:Geena Davis 2013 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Geena Davis]]]]
[[File:Faye Dunaway Cannes 2011.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Faye Dunaway]]]]
[[File:Julianne Moore (15011443428).jpg|alt=Julianne Moore|thumb|upright=0.8|[[Julianne Moore]]]]
In 2014, ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' took note of the number of female Boston University graduates working in Hollywood.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Sandberg |first=Bryn Elise |date=December 12, 2014 |title=Boston University: Hollywood's Secret Female Training Ground |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/boston-university-hollywoods-secret-female-755053 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191116055658/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/boston-university-hollywoods-secret-female-755053 |archive-date=November 16, 2019 |access-date=November 16, 2019 |magazine=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]}}</ref> The university estimates that more than 5,000 alums, 54 percent of them women, work in entertainment. Graduates include famous actors, screenwriters, producers, directors and entertainment industry executives. Over 30 alumni have gone on to win or receive nominations for [[Academy Awards]] and countless have earned [[Emmy Awards]], [[Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globes]], and [[Screen Actors Guild Awards]].

While a student at BU, [[Harold Russell]] took home the university's first Oscar, winning [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]] for ''[[The Best Years of Our Lives]],'' going on to earn his BFA in 1949.

[[Faye Dunaway]], regarded as powerful emblem of [[New Hollywood]], earned her BFA from Boston University in 1962. Dunaway won [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] for ''[[Network (1976 film)|Network]]'' and received [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] nominations for both ''[[Bonnie and Clyde (film)|Bonnie and Clyde]]'' and ''[[Chinatown (1974 film)|Chinatown]].'' All three films are listed in the [[American Film Institute]]'s [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies|100 best American movies ever made]].

[[Beetlejuice]] star [[Geena Davis]] received her BFA in 1979 and went on to win [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] for ''[[The Accidental Tourist (film)|The Accidental Tourist]]'' and pick up a nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] as Louise in the feminist classic, ''[[Thelma & Louise]].'' Her [[Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media|eponymous nonprofit]] is cited as producing pioneering, data-driven research on women's presence in film and media. In 2019, the Academy awarded her the [[Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award]] for "whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the film industry", joining the likes of [[Paul Newman]], [[Oprah Winfrey]], and [[Angelina Jolie]].

[[Julianne Moore]], often described by the media as one of the most accomplished actresses of her generation, earned her BFA from Boston University in 1983. Moore won [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] for ''[[Still Alice]]'' in 2014 and was named to ''[[Time (magazine)|Time's]]'' [[Time 100|100 most influential people in the world]] in 2015. In 2020, ''[[The New York Times]]'' ranked her eleventh on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century.

[[Alfre Woodard]] graduated with a BFA in 1974 and joins Moore on the list of greatest actors of the 21st century. Woodard is a board member of [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]], has four [[Primetime Emmy Awards|Emmy Awards]] and an Academy Award nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] in ''[[Cross Creek (film)|Cross Creek]].''

[[Olympia Dukakis]] earned her BA and MFA from Boston University and joins Russel in winning [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] for ''[[Moonstruck]].'' Other nominees in the category include [[Mariel Hemingway]], the granddaughter of [[Ernest Hemingway]], for  ''[[Manhattan (1979 film)|Manhattan]]'' and, most recently in 2022, [[Hong Chau]] for ''[[The Whale (2022 film)|The Whale]].''

In the [[Academy Award for Best Animated Feature|Best Animated Feature]] category, alumni [[Roy Conli]] and [[Peter Del Vecho]] had back-to-back wins for ''[[Frozen (2013 film)|Frozen]]'' (2013) and ''[[Big Hero 6 (film)|Big Hero 6]]'' (2014). The two build upon the work of alumna [[Bonnie Arnold]], a prominent figure in initial wave of [[Computer animation|computer-animation]], known for producing ''[[Toy Story]]'', ''[[Tarzan (1999 film)|Tarzan]],'' and the ''[[How to Train Your Dragon]]'' series, the latter garnering Arnold nominations for [[Academy Award for Best Animated Feature|Best Animated Feature]] in 2014 and 2019.