Norman McLaren/Evelyn Lambart Award for Best Edited Collection in Animation

Inaugurated in 1995, this award, administered by the Society for Animation Studies, seeks to celebrate exceptional scholarship, published in book form, in the field of animation studies. In recognition of the growing critical mass of animation scholarship, the judging process was expanded to include Runners-Up in 2009. The award was bestowed on an ad-hoc basis between 1995 and 2009.

SAS is currently accepting nominations for the 2026 awards cycle. To be eligible, monographs and edited collections must have been published in/on animation studies in English between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2025 (monographs and edited collections published on or after January 1, 2026 will be eligible for the 2028 cycle). The deadline for nominations is FEBRUARY 28, 2026 (11:59pm GMT).

To be considered for the monograph award, please complete the following submission form: https://forms.gle/dqNueLygAAhTG7J97.

To be considered for the edited collection award, please complete the following submission form: https://forms.gle/yiUu1HBLodcHDLVe6.

Further Eligibility Criteria:

  • Nominees must be current members of SAS.
  • Nominees can only submit to one of the four awards categories in a given awards cycle.
  • Nominees cannot make more than one submission in any one category.
  • Nominees may not sit on the judging panel of a category for which they have made a submission.

Please address any questions to Chris Taylor (ct******@*hu.edu).

Past Winners

2024

Winner – Mihaela Mihailova, Coraline: A Closer Look at Studio LAIKA’s Stop-Motion Witchcraft (Bloomsbury Academic)

Norman McLaren/Evelyn Lambart Award for Best Scholarly Monograph in Animation

 

2024

Winner – Nea Ehrlich: Animating Truth: Documentary and Visual Culture in the 21st Century (Edinburgh University Press)

Runner up – Cristina Formenti, The Classical Animated Documentary and its Contemporary Evolution (Bloomsbury Academic)

2021

         

Winner – Donna Kornhaber: Nightmares in the Dream Sanctuary: War and the Animated Film (University of Chicago Press)

Runner up – Malcolm Cook & Kirsten Moana Thompson: Animation and Advertising (Palgrave)

Runner up – M. Javad Khajavi: Arabic Script in Motion: A Theory of Temporal Text-based Art (Palgrave)

 

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2019

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Winner – Vicky Smith and Nicky Hamlyn (eds.): Experimental and Expanded Animation: New Perspectives and Practices (Palgrave) 

Runner-up – Malcolm Cook: Early British Animation: From Page and Stage to Cinema Screens (Palgrave)
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2017

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Winner – Chris Pallant (ed.): Animated Landscapes: History, Form and Function (Bloomsbury) 

Runner-up – Maureen Furniss: A New History of Animation (Thames & Hudson)
Runner-up – Giannalberto Bendazzi: Animation: A World History (CRC Press)

 

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2015 

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Winner – Annabelle Honess Roe: Animated Documentary (Palgrave)

Runner-Up – Jonathan Clements: Anime A History (BFI)

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2013 

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Winner – Georges Sifianos: Esthétique du cinéma d’animation (Le Cerf)

Runner-Up – Chris Pallant: Demystifying Disney: A History of Disney Feature Animation (Continuum)

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2011

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Winner – Pierre Floquet: Le langage comique de Tex Avery (L’Harmattan)

Runner-Up – Tze-yue G. Hu: Frames of Anime: Culture and Image-Building (Hong Kong University Press)

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2009 

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Winner – Maureen Furniss: The Animation Bible (Laurence King)

Joint Inaugural Runner-Up – Alan Cholodenko: The Illusion of Life II: More Essays on Animation (Power Publications)

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Joint Inaugural Runner-Up – Pierre Floquet: CinémAnimationS (Charles Corlet)

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2001

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Winner – Robin Allan: Walt Disney and Europe (John Libbey Publishing)

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1995

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Inaugural Winner – Michael Frierson: Clay Animation:  American Highlights 1908 to the Present (Twayne Publishers)