The Screen Award recognises the best paper submitted to the journal during a two-year period. The 2021 award was given to Kirsty Sinclair Dootson and Zhaoyu Zhu for their co-authored article 'Did Madame Mao dream in Technicolor? Rethinking Cold War colour cinema through Technicolor’s "Chinese copy"' (Screen 61/3, Autumn 2020)