Sugarcane, the story of sexual abuse and disappearances at a school for Indigenous children in British Columbia, leads the nominations for the prestigious documentary-focused Cinema Eye Honors awards with six. Four films are next with five noms each: Dahomey, Eno, Frida and No Other Land. See the full list below.
Sugarcane, Dahomey and No Other Land will vie for the marquee Nonfiction Feature prize along with Black Box Diaries, Daughters, Look Into My Eyes and Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat. This is the first year that the named nominees in the Nonfiction Feature category will include the entire creative team: directors, producers, editors, cinematographers, composers, sound designers, visual designers and significant on-screen participants.
The producers of Sugarcane, No Other Land, Hollywoodgate, Mistress Dispeller, Porcelain War and Union are up for the Production prize. The Cinema Eye winner in that category has gone on to take the Documentary Feature Academy Award five of the past 10 years, including the past two with 20 Days in Mariupol and Navalny.
Cinema Eye Honors trophies
Cinema Eye
The past six winners of the Best Documentary Feature Oscar — 20 Days in Mariupol, Navalny, Summer of Soul, My Octopus Teacher, American Factory and Free Solo — were nominees for the Audience Choice Prize, whose second-round voting will take place in December.
Cinema Eye previously announced its first honorees of the season with the Unforgettables, the on-camera collaborators from eight feature documentaries. The winners were Shiori Ito (Black Box Diaries), Brian Eno (Eno), Lhakpa Sherpa (Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa), Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham (No Other Land), Patrice Jetter (Patrice: The Movie), Jenna Marvin (Queendom), Chris Smalls (Union) and Harper Steele (Will and Harper).
The ceremony for the 18th annual Cinema Eye Honors, which recognize outstanding artistic achievement in nonfiction and documentary films and series, will be held January 9 at New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem. Cinema Eye Week begins January 6 in New York City.
Here are the film nominees for the 18th Cinema Eye Honors and the shortlist for short films, whose will be revealed next month; for the TV noms, click here:
NONFICTION FEATURE
Black Box Diaries
Shiori Ito, Eric Nyari, Hanna Aqvilin, Ema Ryan Yamazaki, Yuta Okamura, Yuichiro Otsuka, Mark Degli Antoni and Andrew Tracy
Dahomey
Mati Diop, Eve Robin, Judith Lou Levy, Gabriel Gonzalez, Joséphine Drouin Viallard and Nicholas Becker
Daughters
Natalie Rae, Angela Patton, Lisa Mazzotta, Justin Benoliel, James Cunningham, Mindy Goldberg, Sam Bisbee, Kathryn Everett, Laura Choi Raycroft, Adrian Aurelius, Philip Nicolai Flindt, Michael Cambio Fernandez and Kelsey Lu
Look Into My Eyes
Lana Wilson, Kyle Martin, Hannah Buck and Stephen Maing
No Other Land
Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning, Julius Pollux Rothlaender and Bård Harazi Farbu
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Johan Grimonpre, Daan Milius, Rémi Grellety, Jonathan Wannyn, Rik Chaubet, Ranko Pauković and Alek Bunic Goosse
Sugarcane
Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie, Kellen Quinn, Christopher LaMarca, Nathan Punwar, Maya Daisy Hawke, Mali Obomsawin, Martin Czembor, Andrea Bella, Michael Feuser and Ed Archie Noisecat
DIRECTION
Mati Diop
Dahomey
Gary Hustwit
Eno
Lana Wilson
Look Into My Eyes
Elizabeth Lo
Mistress Dispeller
Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
No Other Land
Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie
Sugarcane
Stephen Maing and Brett Story
Union
PRODUCTION
Shane Boris, Odessa Rae and Talal Derki
Hollywoodgate
Emma D. Miller, Elizabeth Lo and Maggie Li
Mistress Dispeller
Fabien Greenberg and Bård Kjøge Rønning
No Other Land
Paula DuPre’ Pesmen, Aniela Sidorska, Camilla Mazzaferro and Olivia Ahnemann
Porcelain War
Emily Kassie and Kellen Quinn
Sugarcane
Mars Verrone and Samantha Curley
Union
EDITING
Maya Tippet and Marley McDonald
Eno
Alexandra Strauss
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Carla Gutiérrez
Frida
Charlotte Tourres
Intercepted
Hannah Buck
Look Into My Eyes
Rik Chaubet
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Joséphine Drouin Viallard
Dahomey
Elizabeth Lo
Mistress Dispeller
Satya Rai Nagpual
Nocturnes
Andrey Stefanov
Porcelain War
Christopher LaMarca
Sugarcane
Olivier Sarbil
Viktor
ORIGINAL SCORE
Wally Badarou and Dean Blunt
Dahomey
Alexeï Aïgui
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Victor Hernández Stumpfhauser
Frida
Nainita Dasai
Nocturnes
Uno Helmersson
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Mali Obomsawin
Sugarcane
SOUND DESIGN
Nicolas Becker
Dahomey
Nas Parkash and Patrick Fripp
Eno
Alex Lane
Intercepted
Tom Paul, Shreyank Nanjappa and Sukanto Mazumder
Nocturnes
Ranko Pauković and Alek Bunic Goosse
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Peter Albrechtsen, Nicolas Becker and Heikki Kossi
Viktor
VISUAL DESIGN
Brendan Dawes
Eno
Sofía Inés Cázares and Renata Galindo
Frida
Howard Baker
Piece by Piece
Brendan Bellomo and BluBlu Studios
Porcelain War
Agniia Galdanova
Queendom
Rasmus Tukia and Ada Wikdahl
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
DEBUT FEATURE
Black Box Diaries
Directed by Shiori Ito
Daughters
Directed by Natalie Rae and Angela Patton
Frida
Directed by Carla Gutiérrez
Grand Theft Hamlet
Directed by Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane
Hollywoodgate
Directed by Ibrahim Nash’at
No Other Land
Directed by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor
AUDIENCE CHOICE PRIZE
Copa 71
Directed by James Erskine and Rachel Ramsay
Daughters
Directed by Natalie Rae and Angela Patton
Frida
Directed by Carla Gutiérrez
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
Directed by Lucy Walker
Porcelain War
Directed by Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Directed by Benjamin Ree
Skywalkers: A Love Story
Directed by Jeff Zimbalist
Sugarcane
Directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui
Will and Harper
Directed by Josh Greenbaum
SPOTLIGHT
Black Snow
Directed by Alina Simone
Homegrown
Directed by Michel Premo
A New Kind of Wilderness
Directed by Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
A Photographic Memory
Directed by Rachel Elizabeth Seed
Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other
Directed by Jacob Perlmutter and Manon Ouimet
Heterodox
Caught by the Tides
Directed by Jia Zhang-ke
Kneecap
Directed by Rich Peppiatt
My First Film
Directed by Zia Anger
Pavements
Directed by Alex Ross Perry
Sing Sing
Directed by Greg Kwedar
Songs from the Hole
Directed by Contessa Gayles
Broadcast Film
Bread & Roses
Directed by Sahra Mani | Apple TV+
Girls State
Directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss | Apple TV+
Great Photo, Lovely Life: Facing a Family’s Secrets
Directed by Amanda Mustard and Rachel Beth Anderson | HBO
The Lady Bird Diaries
Directed by Dawn Porter | Hulu
Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.
Directed by Jeremy O. Harris | HBO
Spermworld
Directed by Lance Oppenheim | FX
SHORTS LIST SEMIFINALISTS
Contractions
Directed by Lynne Sachs | NY Times Op-Docs
Eternal Father
Directed by Ömer Sami | New Yorker
I Am Ready, Warden
Directed by Smriti Mundhra | MTV Documentary Films
Incident
Directed by Bill Morrison | New Yorker
Instruments of a Beating Heart
Directed by Ema Ryan Yamazaki | NY Times Op-Docs
Love in the Time of Migration
Directed by Erin Semine Kökdil and Chelsea Abbas | LA Times
Makayla’s Voice: A Letter to the World
Directed by Julio Palacio | Netflix
The Medallion
Directed by Ruth Hunduma | New Yorker
A Move
Directed by Elahe Esmaili | NY Times Op-Docs
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
Directed by Molly O’Brien | Netflix
A Swim Lesson
Directed by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack | POV
