Past winners – Moving Image
2009
Photography and Cinema
By David Campany (Reaktion Books)
2008
A History of Artists’ Film and Video in Britain, 1897-2004
By David Curtis (BFI)
2006
Orson Welles
Hello Americans
By Simon Callow (Jonathan Cape)
2003
Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture and Film
By Giuliana Bruno (Verso, UK/USA)
This Film is Dangerous: A Celebration of Nitrate Film
Edited by Roger Smither and associate editor Catherine A Surowiec (FIAF – Fé dé ration Internationale des Archives du Film, Belgium)
2001
Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films and His Audiences
By Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence (Rutgers University Press, USA)
Special Effects: The History and Technique
By Richard Rickitt (Virgin Books, UK and Billboard Books, USA)
1999
More than Night: Film Noir in its Contexts
By James Naremore (University of California Press, USA)
Television: An International History of the Formative Years
By R W Burns (Institution of Electrical Engineers, UK)
1997
The World According to Hollywood, 1918-1939
By Ruth Vasey (University of Exeter Press – UK; University of Wisconsin Press – USA)
The Encyclopaedia of Animation Techniques
By Richard Taylor (Focal Press – UK; Running Press, USA; Simon & Schuster, Australia; Page One, Singapore)
1995
Dealmaking in the Film & Television Industry: From Negotiations to Final Contracts
By Mark Litwak (Silman-James Press, USA)
Being Digital
By Nicholas Negroponte (Hodder & Stoughton – UK; Alfred A Knopf – USA)
Film: An International History of the Medium
By Robert Sklar (Thames & Hudson – UK; Harry N Abrams – USA)
1993
Widescreen Cinema
By John Belton (Harvard University Press)
Hollywood’s Overseas Campaign
By Ian Jarvie (Cambridge University Press)
Walt in Wonderland: The Silent Films of Walt Disney
By Russell Merritt & J B Kaufman (Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Italy)