No Other Land wins Nonfiction Feature, Debut Feature & Unforgettables
Mati Diop received Direction Award for Dahomey, Union wins for Production
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat wins for Editing and Sound Design
Audience Choice Prize goes to Porcelain War
Incident is named Outstanding Nonfiction Short
Shortlisted Features Black Box Diaries, Eno, Queendom,
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, Sugarcane and Will & Harper each recognized
New York City, Thursday, January 9, 2025 — Cinema Eye announced their 2025 Honorees tonight at the New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem.
No Other Land, the Berlinale-winning film made by a collective of young Palestinian and Isreali filmmakers, won three awards, including Cinema Eye’s top prize, Outstanding Nonfiction Filmmaking. Directors Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor also received the award for Debut Feature, with Abraham and Adra also Honored as Unforgettables for their appearance on screen in the film.
Eno, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat and Union took home two honors each, with Eno taking the Honor for Visual Design and for Unforgettable Brian Eno, Soundtrack winning Editing for Rik Chaubet and Sound Design for Ranko Pauković and Alek Goosse, and Union recognized for Production (Brett Story, Stephen Maing, Mars Verrone, Samantha Curley and Martin DiCicco) and Unforgettable Chris Smalls.
A number of films on the Oscar Best Documentary Feature Shortlist received trophies this evening, including Outstanding Direction for Mati Diop (Dahomey), Cinematography for Christopher LaMarca and Emily Kassie (Sugarcane), Original Score for Uno Helmersson (The Remarkable Life of Ibelin), Audience Choice Prize for Porcelain War and Unforgettable Honors for Black Box Diaries (Shiori Ito), Queendom (Genna Marvin) and Will & Harper (Harper Steele).
The Honor for Nonfiction Short Film went to Incident by Bill Morrison. The film is also shortlisted for the Oscars.
HBO earned four awards in the Broadcast Film and Series categories: Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play. for Broadcast Film, Telemarketers for Nonfiction Series, How To with John Wilson (Season 3) for Anthology Series and Ren Faire for Broadcast Cinematography. The Broadcast Editing Honor went to Apple’s Girls State.
This is the second year in a row that Cinema Eye held its awards at the historic New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem. The show was led by seven Cinema Eye alumni, producers who had all been previously nominated for Outstanding Nonfiction Feature: Diane Becker (Navalny), Lauren Domino (Time), Sigrid Dyekjær (The Monastary, The Oath, Territory), Su Kim (Hale County This Morning This Evening), Josh Penn (32 Sounds) and Jeff Reichert (American Factory).
The Cinema Eye Honors Awards Ceremony is the culmination of a week’s worth of events in New York City gathering filmmakers and craftspersons from around the globe to celebrate the year’s achievements in Nonfiction Filmmaking.
Premiere Sponsors for the Cinema Eye Honors are Apple Original Films, HBO Documentary Films and National Geographic Documentary Films. Major Sponsors are Amazon MGM Studios, ESPN Films, Hulu and Netflix. Partners are American Cinema Editors, DCTV, Spacestation and Vidiots.
A full list of winners follows.
Nonfiction Feature
No Other Land
Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning, Julius Pollux Rothlaender and Bård Harazi Farbu
Direction
Mati Diop
for Dahomey
Editing
Rik Chaubet
for Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Production
Brett Story, Stephen Maing, Mars Verrone, Samantha Curley and Martin DiCicco
for Union
Cinematography
Christopher LaMarca and Emily Kassie
for Sugarcane
Original Music Score
Uno Helmersson
for The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Sound Design
Ranko Pauković and Alek Goosse
for Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Visual Design
Brendan Dawes
for Eno
Audience Choice Prize
Porcelain War
Directed by Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev
Debut Feature
No Other Land
Directed by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor
Unforgettables
Shiori Ito for Black Box Diaries
Brian Eno for Eno
Lhakpa Sherpa for Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra for No Other Land
Patrice Jetter for Patrice: The Movie
Genna Marvin for Queendom
Chris Smalls for Union
Harper Steele for Will and Harper
Nonfiction Short
Incident
Directed by Bill Morrison
Broadcast Film
Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.
Directed by Jeremy O. Harris
Nonfiction Series
Telemarketers
Directed by Adam Bhala Lough and Sam Lipman-Stern
Anthology Series
How To with John Wilson Season 3
John Wilson, Nathan Fielder, Michael Koman and Clark Reinking
Broadcast Editing
Amy Foote
for Girls State
Broadcast Cinematography
Nate Hurtsellers
for Ren Faire
Spotlight Award
Black Snow
Directed by Alina Simone
Heterodox Award
Songs from the Hole
Directed by Contessa Gayles
