The Katherine Singer Kovács Essay Award is given to works that significantly advance scholarship and thinking in the field either by opening up new lines of inquiry or by consolidating existing ones at a high level of accomplishment. The award was in recognition of the co-authored article by Kirsty Sinclair Dootson and Zhaoyu Zhu, ‘Did Madame Mao Dream in Technicolor? Rethinking Cold War Colour Cinema through Technicolor’s “Chinese Copy”’, Screen 61, no. 3 (1 September 2020): 343–67