Award
TheCinema Eye Honors are awards recognizing excellence in nonfiction or documentary filmmaking and include awards for the disciplines of directing, producing,cinematography andediting . The awards are presented each January in New York and have been held since 2011 at theMuseum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens.[ 1]
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 theIFC Center in New York City on March 18, 2008.[ 4]
Winners Through the Years [ edit ] Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking -Man on Wire 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 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 Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking -Hale County This Morning, This Evening RaMell Ross ; Prod.Joslyn Barnes ,Su Kim , andRaMell Ross Outstanding Achievement in Direction -Minding the Gap Bing Liu Outstanding Achievement in Production -Free Solo Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi ,Jimmy Chin ,Evan Hayes andShannon Dill Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography -Free Solo Jimmy Chin ,Clair Popkin andMikey Schaeffer Outstanding Achievement in Editing -Minding the Gap Bing Liu andJoshua Altman Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation -Shirkers Lucas Celler andSandi Tan Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score -Shirkers Ishai Adar Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film -Minding the Gap Bing Liu Outstanding Achievement in a Nonfiction Film for Broadcast -Baltimore Rising Sonja Sohn Outstanding Achievement in a Nonfiction Series for Broadcast -America to Me Steve James Spotlight Award -The Distant Barking of Dogs Simon Lereng Wilmont Heterodox Award -American Animals Bart Layton Audience Choice -Free Solo Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi ,Jimmy Chin Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking -My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes Charlie Tyrell 2019 Legacy Award -Eyes on the Prize Harry Hampton ,Orlando Bagwell , Sheila Curran Bernard,Callie Crossley , James A. DeVinney, Madison D. Lacy, Thomas Ott,Samuel D. Pollard , Terry Kay Rockefeller, Jacqueline Shearer,Paul Stekler , Judith Vecchione ^ Bennett, Anita (January 6, 2020)."Cinema Eye Honors: 'American Factory', 'Leaving Neverland' Lead Winners" .Deadline Hollywood . RetrievedAugust 11, 2021 . ^ Pond, Steve (March 9, 2021)." .TheWrap . RetrievedAugust 11, 2021 . ^ 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 . RetrievedAugust 11, 2021 . ^ "Cinema Eye Honors Announces Inaugural Nominees" .IndieWire . RetrievedAugust 11, 2021 .
