The following are the major awards by external sponsors to research projects in French cinema. The Principal Investigator's institution corresponds to where they were located at the time of the award.

2010, Douglas Morrey, 'The legacy of the New Wave in French cinema', British Academy/Modern Humanities Research Association, £6239
2010, Max Silverman, Leeds, 'Palimpsestic Memory: the Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film', AHRC Fellowships, £45,182

2009, Lisa Downing, Exeter, Nineteenth-century French culture, critical theory, and cinema studies, Philip Leverhulme Prize £70,000
2009, Rachael Langford, Cardiff, Images of the Congo in Francophone visual culture, Leverhulme Research Fellowship
2009, Lucy Mazdon, Southampton, French Cinema in Britain since 1930, AHRC Research Leave, £32,706
2009, Michael Temple, Birkbeck , Book on Jean-Luc Godard for Reaktion, AHRC Research Leave, £21,552

2007, Roy Armes, Issues in African filmmaking, Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship
2007 S M Ba, Bangor, Afro-Diasporic French cinema: black presence in National French cinema, British Academy Small Research Grant, £4432
2007, Sarah Leahy,  Newcastle, From surrealism to communism: the cinematic collaborations of the Groupe Octobre, 1932-1936, British Academy Small Research Grant, £1854
2007, Joseph McGonagle, Manchester, Post-Colonial Negotiations: Visualising the Franco-Algerian Relationship in the Post-War Period, AHRC Research Grants (Standard), £164,294
2007, David Murphy, Stirling, Making histories: towards more complex genealogies of Francophone African literature and cinema, British Academy Small Research Grant, £7190

2006, Rachael Langford, Cardiff, Refiguring colonialism in Francophone filmic culture, British Academy Small Research Grant, £1506
2006 Kamel Salhi, Leeds, Cinema and legacies of conflict: visions from cultures of independence in North Africa, British Academy Small Research Grant, £7390
2006, Catherine Lupton, Roehampton, Representing the world in photography and film, Leverhulme Research Fellowship

2005, Martine Beugnet, Edinburgh, Evil and the senses: French cinema of transgression, AHRC Research Leave, £14,013
2005, Lucy Mazdon, Southampton, French cinema in Britain since 1930, AHRC Research Grants (Standard), £274,890
2005, Libby Saxton, Queen Mary, Ethical issues in filmic testimony, AHRC Research Leave, £11,476
2005, Patrick Williams, Nottingham Trent , Post-colonial African Cinemas: the major directors, AHRC Research Leave, £14,013

2004 Julia Dobson, Sheffield, Authentications: the films of Dominique Cabrera and Laetitia Masson, British Academy Small Research Grant, £771
2004, Sue Harris, Queen Mary, Set design and the city in 1930s European cinema: Meerson, Trauner and Wakhevitch, AHRC Research Leave, £15,301
2004, William Higbee, Exeter, Mathieu Kassovitz: an auteur on both sides of the camera, AHRC Research Leave, £14,01
2004, Bill Marshall, Glasgow, The cinema of Andre Techine, AHRC Research Leave, £10,510
2004, Sarah Leahy, Northumbria , Casque d'or, AHRC Research Leave, £14,013
2004, Alastair Phillips, Reading, A critical study of Jules Dassin's "Du rififi chez les hommes"(1955), AHRC Research Leave, £10,510
2004, Carrie Tarr, Kingston, The films of Viet Linh: texts and contexts, British Academy Small Research Grant, £1104
2004, Ginette Vincendeau, Warwick, Marcel Pagnol and the popular art of French cinema, AHRC Research Leave, £10,205

2003 Samantha Haigh, Warwick, Representing migration: francophone Caribbean writers and filmmakers in France, British Academy Small Research Grant, £3750
2003, Martin O'Shaughnessy, Nottingham Trent , Return of the social: return of the political? Post 1995 French cinema and commitment, AHRC Research Leave, £13,153
2003, Isabelle Vanderschelden, Manchester Metropolitan, Critical study of Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain (2001): a Jean-Pierre Jeunet film, British Academy Small Research Grant, £1590

2002, Ian Aitken, Silent French film adaptations of Zola, British Academy Small Research Grant, £2700
2002, Graeme Hayes, Nottingham Trent, Social movement mobilisation and the construction of multiplex cinemas in France, British Academy Small Research Grant, £750
2002, Susan Hayward, Exeter, Simone Signoret: the start as cultural sign, AHRC Research Leave, £12,035

2001, Kate Ince, Birmingham, Georges Franju, AHRC Research Leave, £10,230
2001, Carrie Tarr, Kingston, Contemporary trends in ethnic minority filmmaking in France, British Academy Small Research Grant

2000, Guy Austin, Sheffield, A Critical Study of Stars in Modern French Film, AHRC Research Leave, £11,261
2000, Amy Sargeant, Birkbeck, British and French cinema of the teens: raids and exchanges, British Academy Small Research Grant, £3260

1999, Phil Powrie, Newcastle, The Carmen project, Research Grants (Standard), £126,066

1998, Lieve Spaas, Kingston , The francophone film: a struggle for identity, AHRC Research Leave, £16,533