6th Annual Cinema Eye (2013)

The 6th Annual Cinema Eye Honors were held on January 9, 2013. Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi’s 5 Broken Cameras took home the award for Outstanding Nonfiction Feature, while Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady were named Outstanding Directors for Detropia. Michael Moore presented the Legacy Award to the 1993 political verite The War Room, which was accepted by directors Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker and producers Wendy Ettinger and Frazer Pennebaker. Presenters included Susan Froemke, Jennie Livingston, Jonathan Caouette, Darius Marder and Marshall Curry.

Outstanding Achievement
in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking

• Winner

  5 Broken Cameras

  Directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
  Produced by Christine Camdessus, Serge Gordey, Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi

• Detropia

  Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
  Produced by Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady and Craig Atkinson

• The Imposter

  Directed by Bart Layton
  Produced by Dimitri Doganis

• Marina Abramović The Artist is Present

  Directed by Matthew Akers
  Produced by Jeff Dupre and Maro Chermayeff

• Only the Young

  Directed by Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims
  Produced by Derek Waters

• Searching for Sugar Man

  Directed by Malik Bendjelloul
  Produced by Simon Chinn

Outstanding Achievement in Direction

• Winner

  Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady

  For Detropia

• Ra’anan Alexandrowicz

  For The Law in These Parts

• Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims

  For Only the Young

• Seung-jun Yi

  For Planet of Snail

• Bill Ross and Turner Ross

  For Tchoupitoulas

• Victor Kossakovsky

  For ¡Vivan las Antipodas!

Outstanding Achievement in Editing

• Winner

  Véronique Lagoarde-Ségot and Guy Davidi

  For 5 Broken Cameras

• Enat Sidi

  For Detropia

• T. Woody Richman, Tyler H. Walk, Jonathan Oppenheim

  For How to Survive a Plague

• Rodney Ascher

  For Room 237

• Bill Ross

  For Tchoupitoulas

Outstanding Achievement in Production

• Alison Klayman and Adam Schlesinger

  For Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

• Margarete Jangård

  For Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

• Winner

  Dimitri Doganis

  For The Imposter

• Simon Chinn

  For Searching for Sugar Man

• Heino Deckert

  For ¡Vivan las Antipodas!

Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography

• Winner

  Jeffrey Orlowski

  For Chasing Ice

• Erik Alexander Wilson and Lynda Hall

  For The Imposter

• Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims

  For Only the Young

• Ron Fricke

  For Samsara

• Victor Kossakovsky

  For ¡Vivan las Antipodas!

Audience Choice

• 5 Broken Cameras

  Directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi

• Beauty is Embarrassing

  Directed by Neil Berkeley

• Winner

  Bully

  Directed by Lee Hirsch

• How to Survive a Plague

  Directed by David France

• The Imposter

  Directed by Bart Layton

• Jiro Dreams of Sushi

  Directed by David Gelb

• Kumaré

  Directed by Vikram Gandhi

• Marina Abramović The Artist is Present

  Directed by Matthew Akers

• Searching for Sugar Man

  Directed by Malik Bendjelloul

• Trash Dance

  Directed by Andrew Garrison

Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film

• Alison Klayman

  For Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

• David France

  For How to Survive a Plague

• Matthew Akers

  For Marina Abramović The Artist is Present

• Winner

  Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims

  For Only the Young

• Rodney Ascher

  For Room 237

• Malik Bendjelloul

  For Searching for Sugar Man

• Peter Nicks

  For The Waiting Room

Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score

• Winner

  Dial.81

  For Detropia

• Anna Nikitin

  For The Imposter

• Mark De Gli Antoni

  For Into the Abyss

• Jonathan Snipes, William Hutson, The Caretaker (James Kirby)

  For Room 237

• Alexander Popov

  For ¡Vivan las Antipodas!

Outstanding Achievement
in Graphic Design or Animation

• Neil Berkeley, Anthony Maiuri

  For Beauty is Embarrassing

• Nicolas Brault and Tom Hillman

  For Herman’s House

• James Swirsky

  For Indie Game: The Movie

• Carlos Ramos

  For Room 237

• Winner

  Oskar Gullstrand and Arvid Steen

  For Searching for Sugar Man

• John Szot

  For Urbanized

Spotlight Award

• Winner

  Argentinian Lesson

  Directed by Wojciech Staroń

• Bestiaire

  Directed by Denis Côté

• Downeast

  Directed by David Redmon and Ashley Sabin

• Meanwhile in Mamelodi

  Directed by Benjamin Kahlmeyer

• Vol Special (Special Flight)

  Directed by Fernand Melgar

Outstanding Achievement
in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking

• Cutting Loose

  Directed by Finlay Pretsell and Adrian McDowall

• Family Nightmare

  Directed by Dustin Guy Defa

• Winner

  Good Bye Mandima (Kwa Heri Mandima)

  Directed by Robert-Jan Lacombe

• Into the Middle of Nowhere

  Directed by Anna Francis Ewert

• Paradise (Paraíso)

  Directed by Nadav Kurtz

Heterodox Award

• Caesar Must Die (Cesare deve moirire)

  Directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

• Compliance

  Directed by Cragi Zobel

• Winner

  Museum Hours

  Directed by Jem Cohen

• No

  Directed by Pablo Larrain

• An Oversimplification of Her Beauty

  Directed by Terence Nance

Legacy Award

• Winner

  The War Room

  Directed by Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker