Awards
Our award-winning staff and students are recognised nationally and internationally for excellence in film and research.
- Best Prototype Award, The Pathogen of war, Dr. Yasmin Fedda 2022
- Kiki Tianqi Yu, ‘Outstanding Early Career Researcher , QMUL’s Research and Innovation Award 2023.
- “The Two Lives of Li Ermao” produced by Kiki Tianqi Yu, won Audience Prize at Royal Anthropology Institute (RAI) Film Festival, UK, 2021.
- “The Two Lives of Li Ermao” produced by Kiki Tianqi Yu, won "Our Time Machine" Award, CHINA SCREEN d’OR, 2020, France, 2020.
- BAFTSS Best Videographic Criticism Winner, Cycles of Labour: In the Metaverse, We Will Be Housewives, 2025 (Dr Jiří Anger, with Veronika Hanáková and Martin Tremčinský).
- BAFTSS Best Monograph Runner-Up, Towards a Film Theory from Below: Archival Film and the Aesthetics of the Crack-Up, 2025 (Dr Jiří Anger).
- Film-Philosophy Annual Article Award, Trembling Meaning: Camera Instability and Gilbert Simondon’s Transduction in Czech Archival Film, 2022 (Dr Jiří Anger).
- Best Rediscovery of a Forgotten Film, DVD Awards, Il Cinema Ritrovato, Daleká cesta / Distant Journey Blu-ray, 2021 (editor Dr Jiří Anger, National Film Archive in Prague).
- Dr Sasha Litvintseva wins Phillip Leverhulme Prize, 2024.
- Constant by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner wins Sylvestre Best Short Film at IndieLisboa film festival, Portugal, 2022, Best Short Documentary at Guanajuato film festival, Mexico, 2022, Best Film at AFO Olomouc, Czech Republic, 2023, Jury Special Mention at EXiS Seoul film festival, South Korea, 2022.
- A Demonstration by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner nominated for the Golden Bear, Berlinale Shorts, 2020, wins Best Visual Concept Prize, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, 2020 and Second place German Short Film Prize (BAFTA equivalent), 2020.
- Dr Mario Slugan wins Phillip Leverhulme Prize, 2024.
- BAFTSS Best Edited Volume Runner-Up 2023, New Perspectives on Early Cinema History: Perspectives, Approaches, Audiences, (Dr Mario Slugan and Prof Daniel Biltereyst)
- BAFTSS Best Edited Volume Third Place 2022, 'Documentary Studies and Analytic Aesthetics in Conversation', Studies in Documentary Film (2021), 15:2. (Dr Mario Slugan and Dr Enrico Terrone)
- BAFTSS Best Monograph Runner-Up 2021, Fiction and Imagination in Early Cinema: A Philosophical Approach to Film History (Dr Mario Slugan)
- BAFTSS 2024 Edited volume – shortlisted - Lucy Bolton (co-ed.) Contemporary Screen Ethics: Absences, Identities, Belonging, Looking Anew (Edinburgh University Press 2023)
- BAFTSS 2017 Edited volume – WINNER – Lucy Bolton (co-ed.) Lasting Screen Stars: Images that Fade and Personas that Endure (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
- Janet Harbord ‘Autism Plays Itself’ is chosen as Short of the Week on the international platform Short of the Week, February 2025
- Janet Harbord Autism Plays Itself (2023, 18 minutes) winner of Toronto Hot Docs Film Festival International Short Documentary award, May 2024