Sylvia Chong
"The Oriental Obscene: Violence and the Asian Male Body in American Moving Images in the Vietnam Era, 1968-1985," (University of California, Berkeley, 2004).
Twenty-Second Annual Dissertation Award

Guo-Juin Hong
"Cinematograph of History: Post/Colonial Modernity in 1930s Shanghai and New Taiwanese Cinema since 1982," (University of California, Berkeley, 2004).
Honorable mention: Twenty-Second Annual Dissertation Award

Amy Villarejo
Lesbian Rule: Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire (Duke University Press, 2003).
Kovacs Book Award

Edward Dimenberg
Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity (Harvard University Press, 2004)
Honorable Mention:  Kovacs Book Award

Lee Grieveson for Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early-Twentieth-Century American (University of California Press, 2004).
Honorable mention: Kovacs Book Award

Matthew Bernstein
"Oscar Micheaux and Leo Frank: Cinematic Justice Across the Color Line," Film Quarterly 57:4 (Summer 2004).
Kovacs Essay Award

Salome Aguilera Skvirsky
"The Price of Heaven: Remaking Class Politics in All That Heaven Allows, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, and Far from Heaven"
Student Writing Award, First Place

Hye-Seung Chung
"The Audience Who Knew Too Much: Oriental Masquerade and Ethnic Recognition among Asian Americans"
Student Writing Award, Second Place

Emily Susan Carman
"Stardoms of Independence: Female Film Stars and the Studio System in the 1930s
Student Writing Award, Third Place

Vivian Sobchack
Third Annual Service Award

Pearl Bowser and Stuart Hall
Honorary Life Members