2015 Cinema Eye Honors Announces Winners
January 7, 2015, Astoria, Queens, New York – Citizenfour, Laura Poitras’ first person account of Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA spying, picked up four awards at the 8th Annual Cinema Eye Honors, including Outstanding Nonfiction Feature and Outstanding Direction, held Wednesday night at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York. It’s the […]
Cinema Eye Honors Announces 2015 Legacy Award
The Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking today announced that the 2015 Legacy Award will be presented to the landmark 1990 documentary, Paris is Burning, Jennie Livingston’s landmark portrait of gender, race and culture in the waning days of New York City’s Drag Balls in the 1980s. The presentation of the Legacy Award will be […]
Cinema Eye Honors Announces 2015 Heterodox Nominees
The Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking today announced the five nominees for its annual Cinema Eye Heterodox Award, sponsored by Filmmaker Magazine, a publication of IFP. The Cinema Eye Heterodox Award honors a narrative fiction film that imaginatively incorporates nonfiction strategies, content and/or modes of production. The five films nominated this year for the […]
Cinema Eye Honors Announces 2015 Nominees
Thirty-six feature films and six shorts will vie for this year’s Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking as nominees were announced this evening at a reception at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, Denmark. Winners will be announced January 7, 2015 at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City.
Cinema Eye Honors Announces “The Unforgettables”
Cinema Eye, the organization that celebrates artistry and craft in nonfiction filmmaking, today announced their annual list of “The Unforgettables” – this year’s most notable and significant nonfiction film subjects. Cinema Eye produces the annual Cinema Eye Honors, the centerpiece of a week-long celebration of nonfiction film that takes place in New York each year […]
Cinema Eye Honors Announces “The Influentials”
25 classic nonfiction features were named today to the Cinema Eye Honors annual list of The Influentials, the films that most inspired this year’s class of filmmakers eligible for the 2015 awards. “This is not a list that hopes to name the 25 best documentaries of all-time,” said Cinema Eye Honors Chair Esther Robinson, “but […]
Cinema Eye Honors Names 2015 “Shorts List”
Ten nonfiction short films were announced today as finalists for the 2015 Cinema Eye Honors, the 8th edition of the largest annual celebration for and recognition of the nonfiction film artform and the creators of those films.
Finalists for 2015 Nonfiction Film for Television Award announced
The Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking today announced 10 finalists for their annual Nonfiction Film for Television Award, marking the first awards announcement of the 8th Annual Honors calendar year.
2014 Cinema Eye Winners Revealed
The Act of Killing, Stories We Tell and Cutie and the Boxer win top awards at 7th annual Cinema Eye Honors. Joshua Oppenheimer’s film on Indonesian death squads wins Outstanding Feature Film. Sarah Polley named Outstanding Director for Stories We Tell. Cutie and the Boxer wins 3 awards, including Outstanding Debut. Awards go to Let the Fire Burn, Leviathan, The Crash Reel, Sound City
Cinema Eye to Present 2014 Legacy Award to Barbara Kopple’s Harlan County, USA
The Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking today announced that the 2014 Legacy Award will be presented to the landmark 1976 documentary, Harlan County, USA, Barbara Kopple’s groundbreaking chronicle of a historic Kentucky coal miner strike. Kopple will accept the award on behalf of the film at the 7th annual Cinema Eye Honors ceremony on January 8, 2014, to be held at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York.