Young Artist Award

The Young Artist Awards (acronym: YAA, until 2004 known as the Youth In Film Awards ) are one in the U.S. by the Young Artist Foundation, a company founded in 1979 non-profit organization, award Film and Television Award for young actors and actresses annually. In addition to the film itself, the Foundation also award scholarships to promising young actors who could not otherwise provide the necessary financial requirements, ready. She was also the first organization specifically organized an award for artists under the age of 18 in the fields of film, television, theater and music.

The first award ceremony took place in November 1979 at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Hollywood and instead rewarded the young artists of the film in 1978 and 1979. Previously The last awards at the ceremony now 34, was on May 5, 2013 Sportsmen's Lodge, a Hotel in Studio City, Los Angeles, awarded to artists of the film 2012.

Idea

Meaning of the Young Artists Award is to draw attention to young actors who would otherwise hardly move in the public eye. With the state of the awarding of prizes will be awarded in 2011 a total of 44 categories. For the first time the prize was awarded in 1979 ( for films of the year 1978-1979 ). In 2010, for the first time were German -speaking young actor an award. Excellent Leonie Benesch and Leonard were Proxauf for her performance in the drama The White Ribbon - A German children's story. The ceremony will take place regularly in spring in Studio City in the U.S. state of California. Like the Oscars, the Young Artist Award presented by other young artists.

Current categories

The Young Artist Awards are presented mainly in the two divisions of film, television and theater. The rising in different categories are divided in part by genre once again and the age of the actors and actresses.