Box Office Milestone: 'Ted' Crosses $500 Million Worldwide

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For a school founded in Providence in 1877, RISD produces some pretty au courant filmmakers in its Film, Animation and Video program. Grad Seth MacFarlane (Ted) subversively applied VFX to crude comedy. Robert Richardson (who went to AFI after RISD) won his third Oscar for Hugo, a film steeped in the imagery of another era. At RISD, film is seen in the context of an art college, and many students resist the idea of show business as usual.
TUITION $41,022
DEGREES BFA in film, animation, video
NOTABLE ALUMNI Gus Van Sant, David Byrne