Cinema Eye Honors

Award
Cinema Eye Honors
Current: 17th Cinema Eye Honors
Awarded forNon-fiction Films
LocationNew York City
CountryUnited States
First awarded2008
Last awarded2024
Websitehttp://www.cinemaeyehonors.com/

The Cinema Eye Honors are awards recognizing excellence in nonfiction or documentary filmmaking and include awards for the disciplines of directing, producing, cinematography and editing. The awards are presented each January in New York and have been held since 2011 at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens.[1] Cinema Eye was created to celebrate artistic craft in nonfiction filmmaking, addressing a perceived imbalance in the field where awards were given for social impact or importance of topic rather than artistic excellence.

History

Nominations for the awards are determined by voting of top film festival documentary programmers and winners are voted on by an invited membership of more than 800 documentary film experts. Cinema Eye also presents an Audience Choice Prize where voting is open to the public and the Heterodox Award.[2][3]

The first Cinema Eye Honors were presented at the IFC Center in New York City on March 18, 2008.[4]

Winners Through the Years

Winners in 2008

  • Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking - Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) - Dir. Jason Kohn; Prods. Joey Frank, Jared Goldman, Jason Kohn
  • Outstanding Achievement in Direction - Taxi to the Dark Side - Alex Gibney
  • Outstanding Achievement in Production - Ghosts of Cité Soleil - Seth Kanegis, Tomas Radoor, Mikael Rieks
  • Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography - Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) - Heloísa Passos
  • Outstanding Achievement in Editing - Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) - Doug Abel, Jenny Golden, Andy Grieve
  • Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation - Chicago 10 - Animation by Curious Pictures
  • Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film - Billy the Kid - Jennifer Venditti
  • Outstanding Achievement in an International Feature Film - The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun - Dir. Pernille Rose Grønkjær; Prod. Sigrid Dyekjær
  • Audience Choice Prize - The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters - Dir. Seth Gordon

Winners in 2009

  • Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking - Man on Wire - Dir. James Marsh, Prod. Simon Chinn
  • Outstanding Achievement in Direction - Waltz with Bashir - Ari Folman
  • Outstanding Achievement in Production - Man on Wire - Simon Chinn
  • Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography - Encounters at the End of the World - Peter Zeitlinger
  • Outstanding Achievement in Editing - Man on Wire - Jinx Godfrey
  • Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation - Waltz with Bashir - Yoni Goodman, David Polonsky
  • Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition - Waltz with Bashir - Max Richter
  • Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film - Up the Yangtze - Dir. Yung Chang
  • Outstanding Achievement in an International Feature Film - Waltz with Bashir - Dir. Ari Folman; Prod. Ari Folman, Serge Lalou, Gerhard Meixner, Yael Nahlieli, Roman Paul
  • Honored Shorts - Breadmakers, City of Cranes, Kids + money, One Day, The Tailor
  • Audience Choice Prize - Up the Yangtze - Dir. Yung Chang

Winners in 2010

  • Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking - The Cove - Dir. Louie Psihoyos; Prod. Paula DuPré Pesman, Fisher Stevens
  • Outstanding Achievement in Direction - The Beaches of Agnès - Agnès Varda
  • Outstanding Achievement in Production - The Cove - Paula DuPré Pesman, Fisher Stevens
  • Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography - The Cove - Brook Aitken
  • Outstanding Achievement in Editing - Burma VJ - Janus Billeskov-Jansen, Thomas Papapetros
  • Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation
  • Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score - October Country - Danny Grody, Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri, Ted Savarese, Kenric Taylor
  • Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film - October Country - Dir. Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher
  • Outstanding Achievement in an International Feature Film - Burma VJ - Dir. Anders Østergaard; Prod. Lise Lense-Møller
  • Spotlight Award - Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo - Dir. Jessica Oreck
  • Audience Choice Prize - The September Issue - Dir. R. J. Cutler
  • 2010 Legacy Award - Sherman's March - Dir. Ross McElwee

Winners in 2011

Winners in 2012

Winners in 2013

Winners in 2014

Winners in 2015

Winners in 2016

Winners in 2017

Winners in 2018

Winners in 2019

Winners in 2020

Winners in 2021

Winners in 2022

Winners in 2023

References

  1. ^ Bennett, Anita (January 6, 2020). "Cinema Eye Honors: 'American Factory', 'Leaving Neverland' Lead Winners". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved August 11, 2021.
  2. ^ Pond, Steve (March 9, 2021). "'Collective' Named Top Documentary at Cinema Eye Honors". TheWrap. Retrieved August 11, 2021.
  3. ^ Macaulay, Scott (January 6, 2015). "Boyhood Wins Heterodox Award, Paris is Burning Honored with Legacy Award at Cinema Eye Honor's Inaugural Honors Lunch". Filmmaker. Retrieved August 11, 2021.
  4. ^ "Cinema Eye Honors Announces Inaugural Nominees". IndieWire. January 21, 2008. Retrieved August 11, 2021.

Further reading

  • The First-Ever Cinema Eye Honors. at IFC.com
  • "Gift Shop" and "The Oath" Win Top Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction at indiewire.com
  • Banksy Takes the Top Prize at the Cinema Eye Documentary Honors at ifc.com
  • The New Breed: Manda Bala Takes 3 in Cinema Eye's inaugural documentary awards at imdb.com
  • "Wire, "Bashir" Top Cinema Eye Doc Awards at indiewire.com
  • Cinema Eye Honors 'Manda Bala', 'Billy the Kid' and 'The King of Kong', Among Others Archived 2010-09-14 at the Wayback Machine at thedocumentaryblog.com
  • "The Cove" Leads Cinema Eye Honors Nominees at indiewire.com
  • 'The Interrupters' Takes Top Two Prizes at Cinema Eye Honors 2012 at pbs.org
  • 'The Interrupters' Takes Top Prizes at Cinema Eye Honors at reuters.com

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