Cinema Eye Honors Announces Nominees for 8th Annual Nonfiction Film Awards
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
20,000 Days on Earth
Directed by Iain Forsythe and Jane Pollard
Produced by Dan Bowen and James Wilson
Citizenfour
Directed by Laura Poitras
Produced by Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky
Life Itself
Directed by Steve James
Produced by Zak Piper and Steve James
The Overnighters
Directed by Jesse Moss
Produced by Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine
Virunga
Directed by Orlando von Einsiedel
Produced by Joanna Natesegara and Orlando von Einsiedel
Outstanding Achievement in Direction
Robert Greene
Actress
Laura Poitras
Citizenfour
Steve James
Life Itself
Jesse Moss
The Overnighters
Nick Broomfield
Tales of the Grim Sleeper
Outstanding Achievement in Editing
Robert Greene
Actress
Kate Amend
The Case Against 8
Mathilde Bonnefoy
Citizenfour
Steve James and David E. Simpson
Life Itself
Sabine Lubbe Bakker and Niels van Koevorden
Ne Me Quitte Pas
Marshall Curry
Point and Shoot
Outstanding Achievement in Production
Ben Cotner and Ryan White
The Case Against 8
Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky
Citizenfour
Katy Chevigny, Ross Kauffman and Marilyn Ness
The E-Team
Orwa Nyrabia and Hans Robert Eisenhauer
Return to Homs
Joanna Natesegara and Orlando von Einsiedel
Virunga
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
Erik Wilson
20,000 Days on Earth
Laura Poitras, Kirsten Johnson, Katy Scoggin & Trevor Paglen
Citizenfour
Ross Kauffman and Rachel Beth Anderson
The E-Team
Niels van Koevorden
Ne Me Quitte Pas
Andrew Droz Palermo
Rich Hill
Franklin Dow and Orlando von Einsiedel
Virunga
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Films Made for Television
American Masters: Jimi Hendrix – Here My Train a Comin’
Directed by Bob Smeaton
Produced by John McDermott
For PBS/American Masters: Susan Lacy, Julie Sacks, Junko Tsunashima, Lesley Norman
The Education of Muhammad Hussein
Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
Produced by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
For HBO Documentary Films: Sheila Nevins, Sara Bernstein
Hillsborough
Directed by Daniel Gordon
Produced by Daniel Gordon, Deirdre Fenton, Erin Leyden, Libby Geist
For ESPN/30 for 30 Soccor Stories: Connor Schell, John Dahl, Bill Simmons
The Price of Gold
Directed by Nanette Burstein
Produced by Libby Geist
For ESPN/30 for 30: John Dahl, Connor Schell, Bill Simmons
Six by Sondheim
Directed by James Lapine
Produced by Frank Rich, Liz Stanton
For HBO Documentary Films: Sheila Nevins, Nancy Abraham
Audience Choice Prize
20,000 Days on Earth
Directed by Iain Forsythe and Jane Pollard
The Case Against 8
Directed by Ben Cotner and Ryan White
Citizenfour
Directed by Laura Poitras
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Directed by Chiemi Karasawa
Finding Vivian Maier
Directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
Jodorowsky’s Dune
Directed by Frank Pavich
Keep On Keepin’ On
Directed by Alan Hicks
Life Itself
Directed by Steve James
Mistaken for Strangers
Directed by Tom Berninger
Particle Fever
Directed by Mark Levinson
Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film
20,000 Days on Earth
Directed by Iain Forsythe and Jane Pollard
Approaching the Elephant
Directed by Amanda Rose Wilder
Evolution of a Criminal
Directed by Darius Clark Monroe
Finding Vivian Maier
Directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
Return to Homs
Directed by Talal Derki
Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
20,000 Days on Earth
David Wingo
The Great Invisible
Joshua Abrams
Life Itself
David Perlick-Molinari
Mateo
Edwyn Collins
The Possibilities Are Endless
Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design or Animation
Kyle McKeveny and Matt St. Leger
Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart
Syd Garon
Jodorowsky’s Dune
MK12 – Nominees to be Determined
Particle Fever
Philippe Gariepy and Benoit St. Jean
Red Army
Steven Do
The Unknown Known
Spotlight Award
1971
Directed by Johanna Hamilton
Evaporating Borders
Directed by Iva Radivojevic
An Honest Liar
Directed by Justin Weinstein and Tyler Measom
Living Stars
Directed by Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn
My Name is Salt
Directed by Farida Pacha
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking
Hacked Circuit
Directed by Deborah Stratman
Joanna
Directed by Aneta Kopacz
The Lion’s Mouth Opens
Directed by Lucy Walker
Notes on Blindness
Directed by Peter Middleton and James Spinney
One Year Lease
Directed by Brian Bolster
Cinema Eye is headed by a core team that includes Nominations Committee Chair Charlotte Cook (Head of Programming, Hot Docs Film Festival), Cinema Eye Week Producer Will Lennon (director, Phoebe’s Birthday Cheeseburger), Board Chair Andrea Meditch (executive producer, Buck and Man on Wire), Honors Chair Esther Robinson (director, A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory), Founding Director AJ Schnack (director, Caucus and Kurt Cobain About A Son) and Cinema Eye Week Director Nathan Truesdell (producer, We Always Lie to Strangers). Wendy Garrett will serve as the 2015 Honors Producer.
Nominees for the Cinema Eye Honors feature awards are determined in voting by the top documentary programmers from throughout the world. This year’s nominations committee included Charlotte Cook (Hot Docs), David Courier (Sundance), Heather Croall (Sheffield Doc/Fest), Hussain Currimbhoy (Sundance Film Festival), Cara Cusumano (Tribeca), Joanne Feinberg (Ashland Film Festival), Elena Fortes (Ambulante), Ben Fowlie (Camden International Film Festival), Tom Hall (Montclair Film Festival), Sarah Harris (Dallas Film Festival), Doug Jones (formerly of Los Angeles Film Festival), Jim Kolmar (SXSW), Amir Labaki (It’s All True, Brazil), Artur Liebhart (Planete Doc Review), David Nugent (Hamptons Film Festival), Veton Nurkollari (DokuFest Kosovo), Janet Pierson (SXSW), Thom Powers (Toronto International Film Festival), Rachel Rosen (San Francisco), Charlotte Selb (RIDM Montreal), Sky Sitney (formerly of AFI DOCS), Genna Terranova (Tribeca), Sadie Tillery (Full Frame), Basil Tsiokos (DOC NYC) and David Wilson (True/False).
Nominees for the Cinema Eye Honors short film awards were selected by a nominations committee that included Karen Cirillo (True/False), Charlotte Cook (Hot Docs), Hussain Currimbhoy (Sheffield Doc/Fest), Cara Cusumano (Tribeca), Ben Fowlie (Camden International Film Festival), Claudette Godfrey (SXSW), Doug Jones (formerly of Los Angeles Film Festival), Ted Mott (Full Frame), Veton Nurkollari (DokuFest Kosovo), Rachel Rosen (San Francisco) Sky Sitney (formerly of AFI DOCS) and Kim Yutani (Sundance).
Nominees for the Television Award were selected by a nominations committee of film critics and writers that included Miriam Bale, Steve Dollar, Eric Hynes, Liz Shannon Miller, Mark Olsen and Allison Willmore.