University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts

USC School of Cinematic Arts

Motto	Limes regiones rerum
Motto in English	Reality ends here
Type	Private film school
Established	1929
Endowment	$200 million
Dean	Elizabeth M. Daley Ph.D. (1991-Present)
Academic staff	96 full time 219 part time
Administrative staff	144 full time 499 student workers
Undergraduates	876
Postgraduates	715
Location	Los Angeles, California, United States
Website	cinema.usc.edu

The USC School of Cinematic Arts (formerly the USC School of Cinema-Television, or CNTV) is a private media School within the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California. The school offers multiple undergraduate and graduate programs covering production, screenwriting, critical studies, animation and digital arts, and interactive media & games. Additional advanced programs include the Media Arts and Practice PhD Program, the Peter Stark Producing Program, and the Business of Entertainment (offered in conjunction with the USC Marshall School of Business MBA Program).

It is the oldest and largest such school in the United States, established in 1929 as a joint venture with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and has been ranked as one of the best film programs in the world on several occasions.

The school's founding faculty include Douglas Fairbanks, D. W. Griffith, William C. DeMille, Ernst Lubitsch, Irving Thalberg, and Darryl Zanuck. Notable professors include Drew Casper, the Alma and Alfred Hitchcock Professor of American Film; Tomlinson Holman, inventor of THX; film critic and historian Leonard Maltin; and David Bondelevitch, President of the Motion Picture Sound Editors.