FMST Critical Essay Awards
| Student Name | Paper Title | Year | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kiki Hu SC '28 | "Histories in the Shadows: Cinematic Resistance in Taiwanese and Hong Kong New Wave" | 2025 | First Place |
| Ben Rotko SC '25 | "Cloud Atlas and the Globalization of Cinema" | 2025 | Second Place |
| Rocio Guay SC '25 | "Farewell My Concubine and Its Censorship Saga" | 2025 | Third Place |
| Jayho So SC '26 | "The Spectacular Cinematic Utopia of Oz" | 2025 | Honorable Mention |
| Liya Hughes SC '24 | "Bridging Cultures Through Animation: Exploring the Tension and Intersection of East Asian and Western Values in Contemporary Animated Features" | 2024 | First Place |
| Rocio Guay SC '25 | "Bong Joon-ho and Transnational Flow Through Auteurism" | 2024 | Second Place |
| Josephine Low SC '27 | "The Boy Who Swallowed a Star: Transformational Synthesis in Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)" | 2024 | Third Place |
| Anastasia Lewis SC '24 | "Demystifying the Voice of AI" | 2024 | Honorable Mention |
| Mal Pietsch SC '24 | "Blazing New Paths: The Physicality of Fire in Animation" (Script) | 2024 | Honorable Mention |
Rachel Lapides SC '23 | "AIDS and Time Travel: 12 Monkeys and Philadelphia" | 2023 | First Place |
Jake Rothman SC '23 | "2001: A Jeanne Dielman Odyssey (or, Passivity and Agency in Safe)" | 2023 | Second Place |
Ben Rotko SC '25 | "Kamen Rider Black Sun: Tokusatsu’s Past, Present, and Future" | 2023 | Third Place |
Ellie Tsapatsaris SC '24 | "From Theater to Thriller: The Evolution of Horror Television" | 2023 | Third Place |
Brooks Richon HC '21 | "Foucauldian Gazes in the School, the Prison, the Port: Mädchen in Uniform, Un Chant d'amour, Querelle" | 2021 | Co-Winner |
Chili Shi SC '22 | "Maria Braun and the Formulation of a Nation" | 2021 | Co-Winner |
Isabelle Titcomb SC '22 | "The Politics of Yesterday Girl" | 2021 | Honorable Mention |
