Cinema Eye Honors Reveals First Announcements for 2025
16 of the Year’s Most Acclaimed and Talked About Docs Named to LonglistUnforgettable Honorees RevealedGirls State and Ren Faire Top Broadcast NominationsAnnual Shorts List Revealed Los Angeles, CA, October 24, 2024 — Cinema Eye Honors, the organization that recognizes outstanding artistic achievement in nonfiction and documentary films and series, kicked off its 18th annual celebrations […]
Cinema Eye Honors Reveals First Awards Announcements For 2026
Unforgettables Honorees Revealed, Including Jacinda Ardern, Andrea Gibson, Fatma Hassona and Seymour Hersh Worldwide Voting Opens on Tuesday, October 28 for Audience Choice Prize;16 of the Year’s Most Acclaimed and Talked About Docs Named to Longlist including Apocalypse in the Tropics, Coexistence, My Ass!, Cutting Through Rocks, Deaf President Now!, Folktales, Mr. Nobody Against Putin, Orwell: 2+2=5, The Perfect Neighbor and The Tale of Silyan […]
The Cinema Eye Legacy Award Goes To Landmark Film The Watermelon Woman
The Watermelon Woman, Cheryl Dunye’s landmark 1996 indie, will receive this year’s Legacy Award, recognizing a classic film that continues to speak to and inspire today’s filmmakers. When it debuted 25 years ago, The Watermelon Woman was the first narrative feature from an out, black lesbian. Dunye played a version of herself, a documentary filmmaker […]
Cinema Eye Reveals Broadcast Nominees for 2020
New Awards in 2020 for Broadcast Editing & Cinematography Beyoncé’s Homecoming Leads Broadcast Nominations October 24, 2019 | Los Angeles, California – Cinema Eye Honors kicked off its 2020 season today with the first awards announcements of its 13th year recognizing artistry and innovation in nonfiction filmmaking. Underlining its ongoing commitment to filmmaking craft and […]
Cinema Eye Says HELL YEAH to Icarus
Cinema Eye Says Hell Yeah to Icarus Audience Award Voting Opens | Tickets Now On Sale December 12, 2017, New York City, NY – The Cinema Eye Honors Core Team has voted to present the organization’s Hell Yeah Prize to Bryan Fogel’s Icarus, which uncovered a massive Russian doping effort and led to last week’s […]
Cinema Eye Shorts List Unveiled
Here are the short documentaries named to the Cinema Eye Shorts List. From this list of ten, five nominees for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking will be announced in the coming weeks. The winner will be announced during the 14th Annual Cinema Eye Honors, on Tuesday, March 9, 2021. Cinema Eye Honors Shorts List […]
Cinema Eye to Present LEGACY AWARD to The Times of Harvey Milk
Audience Choice Prize Voting Open | Tickets on Sale December 14, 2016 | New York – The Times of Harvey Milk, Rob Epstein’s landmark 1984 film about the life and assassination of the first openly gay elected official in California, will receive the 2017 Legacy Award at the 10th Annual Cinema Eye Honors in January. […]
Cinema Eye Unveils First Awards Announcements for 2020 Including This Year’s Unforgettables
Cinema Eye Unveils First Awards Announcements for 2020 Including This Year’s Unforgettables October 24, 2019 | Los Angeles, California – Cinema Eye Honors kicked off its 2020 season today with the first awards announcements of its 13th year recognizing artistry and innovation in nonfiction filmmaking. This is the 7th year that Cinema Eye continues its […]
Cinema Eye Unveils Full Slate of Nominees for 14th Annual Nonfiction Honors
The Cinema Eye Honors, which recognize outstanding artistry and craft in nonfiction filmmaking, has announced its full slate of nominees for its 14th Annual Awards Ceremony, which will be held, virtually this year, on Tuesday, March 9, 2021. Time, Garrett Bradley’s intimate portrait of a family’s struggle over years of incarceration, was nominated for six […]
Eyes on the Prize to Receive 2019 Cinema Eye Legacy Award
December 20, 2018 – The Cinema Eye Honors today announced that the landmark public television series Eyes on the Prize will be the recipient of the 2019 Legacy Award, a recognition of a classic work of nonfiction filmmaking that continues to inspire new generations of filmmakers and remains as relevant today as it was when it […]