Cinema Eye continued its growth in the year leading up to its fourth edition, beginning with a series of film screenings at Cinefamily in Los Angeles, continuing with its November 2010 nominations announcement at Sheffield Doc/Fest and concluding with its 4th Annual Awards Ceremony on January 18, 2011. It was the first year in Cinema Eye’s new home, having relocated from Manhattan to the newly-remodeled Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens.
Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop was named Outstanding Feature and Laura Poitras received the Directing prize for The Oath. Lixin Fan’s Last Train Home won three awards, including Cinematography and Production. Legendary filmmakers Al Maysles and Muffie Meyer accepted the Legacy Award on behalf of Grey Gardens. Cinema Eye presented its first Nonfiction Short Film award (it went to The Poodle Trainer by Vance Malone) and the first Heterodox Award, recognizing fiction films which imaginatively incorporate nonfiction strategies, content and/or modes of production. That award went to Matt Porterfield’s Putty Hill. Previous Cinema Eye winners James Marsh and Louie Psihoyos were among the presenters, along with Morgan Spurlock, They Might Be Giants’ John Flansburgh, Bill and Turner Ross and actor/filmmaker Harry Shearer.
Outstanding Achievement
in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
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Armadillo
Directed by Janus Metz
Produced by Stockmann and Ronnie Fridthjof -
Winner
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Directed by Banksy
Produced by Jaimie D’Cruz -
Last Train Home
Directed by Lixin Fan
Produced by Mila Aung-Thwin and Daniel Cross -
Marwencol
Directed by Jeff Malmberg
Produced by Jeff Malmberg, Tom Putnam, Matt Radecki, Chris Shellen and Kevin Walsh -
The Oath
Directed and Produced by Laura Poitras
Outstanding Achievement in Direction
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Janus Metz
For Armadillo
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Frederick Wiseman
For La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
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Lixin Fan
For Last Train Home
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Jeff Malmberg
For Marwencol
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Winner
Laura Poitras
For The Oath
Outstanding Achievement in Editing
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Per K. Kirkegaard
For Armadillo
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Winner
Chris King and Tom Fulford
For Exit Through the Gift Shop
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Joëlle Alexis
For A Film Unfinished
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Lixin Fan and Mary Stephens
For Last Train Home
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Jeff Malmberg
For Marwencol
Outstanding Achievement in Production
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Sara Stockmann and Ronnie Fridthjof
For Armadillo
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Jaimie D’Cruz
For Exit Through the Gift Shop
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Audrey Marrs and Charles Ferguson
For Inside Job
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Winner
Mila Aung-Thwin and Daniel Cross
For Last Train Home
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Laura Poitras
For The Oath
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Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington
For Restrepo
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
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Lars Skree
For Armadillo
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John Davey
For La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
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Heikke Farm
For Into Eternity
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Camera Luc Drion, Philippe Ros and Luciano Tovoli
For Oceans
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Winner
Lixin Fan
For Last Train Home
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Peter Liechti and Matthias Kalin
For The Sounds of Insects – Record of a Mummy
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Lucien Castaing-Taylor
For Sweetgrass
Audience Choice
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Catfish
Directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman
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La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
Directed by Frederick Wiseman
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Exit Through the Gift Shop
Directed by Banksy
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A Film Unfinished
Directed by Yael Hersonski
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Inside Job
Directed by Charles Ferguson
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Winner
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Directed by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg
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Last Train Home
Directed by Lixin Fan
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Restrepo
Directed by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
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The Tillman Story
Directed by Amir Bar-Lev
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Waiting for “Superman”
Directed by Davis Guggenheim
Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film
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Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman
For Catfish
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Banksy
For Exit Through the Gift Shop
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Winner
Jeff Malmberg
For Marwencol
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Kimberly Reed
For Prodigal Sons
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Mads Brügger
For The Red Chapel
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Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
For Sweetgrass
Outstanding Achievement
in Original Music Score
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David Darling
For 12th and Deleware
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Joey Burns and John Convertino
For Circo
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Osvaldo Golijov
For The Oath
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Winner
Norbert Möslang
For The Sounds of Insects – Record of a Mummy
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Todd Griffin
For Utopia in Four Movements
Outstanding Achievement
in Graphic Design or Animation
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Paul Thomas and Matt Harlock
For American: The Bill Hicks Story
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Winner
Juan Cardarelli and Eric Levy
For Gasland
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Josh Norton and Alex Krawitz
For Inside Job
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Rob Chiu
For The Invention of Dr. Nakamats
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Martin Hultman
For Videocracy
Spotlight Award
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The Arbor
Directed by Clio Barnard
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Winner
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
Directed by Andrei Ujică
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La Bocca Del Lupo
Directed by Vincenzo Motta
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Nostalgia for the Light
Directed by Patricio Guzman
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Steam of Life
Directed by Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen
Outstanding Achievement
in International Feature Filmmaking
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Armadillo
Directed by Janus Metz
Produced by Sara Stockmann and Ronnie Fridthjof -
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Directed by Banksy
Produced by Jaimie D’Cruz -
Into Eternity
Directed by Michael Madsen
Produced by Lise Lense-Møller -
Winner
Last Train Home
Directed by Lixin Fan
Produced by Mila Aung-Thwin and Daniel Cross -
The Red Chapel
Directed by Mads Brügger
Produced by Peter Engel
Outstanding Achievement
in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking
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Albert’s Winter
Directed by Andreas Koefoed
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Arsy-Versy
Directed by Miro Remo
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Dock Ellis and the LSD NO-NO
Directed by James Blagden
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Winner
The Poodle Trainer
Directed by Vance Malone
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Quadrangle
Directed by Amy Grappell
Heterodox Award
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Alamar
Directed by Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio
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Winner
Putty Hill
Directed by Matt Porterfield
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Le Quattro Volte
Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino
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Tiny Furniture
Directed by Lena Dunahm
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Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Legacy Award
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Winner
Grey Gardens
Directed by Albert Maysles, David Mayseles, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer