Photograph: Joan Seidel

Five films earned Daniel DeStefano ’07 a total of 11 nominations over the years for the Baldwin Award, Boston College’s equivalent of the Oscar for student filmmaking. But the gold spray-painted eagle statuette always went to the competition. At the third annual red-carpet ceremony on March 30, Michael Civille, adjunct faculty in the fine arts department, bestowed on DeStefano the event’s first-ever special award for “lifetime achievement.” Alfred Hitchock never won an Oscar, Civille noted. Out of 32 films, senior Nelliana Kuh’s Untitled took the award for Best Picture.