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
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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
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Winner
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
For Detropia
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Ra’anan Alexandrowicz
For The Law in These Parts
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Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims
For Only the Young
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Seung-jun Yi
For Planet of Snail
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Bill Ross and Turner Ross
For Tchoupitoulas
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Victor Kossakovsky
For ¡Vivan las Antipodas!
Outstanding Achievement in Editing
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Véronique Lagoarde-Ségot and Guy Davidi
For 5 Broken Cameras
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Enat Sidi
For Detropia
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Winner
T. Woody Richman and Tyler H. Walk
For How to Survive a Plague
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Rodney Ascher
For Room 237
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Bill Ross
For Tchoupitoulas
Outstanding Achievement in Production
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Alison Klayman and Adam Schlesinger
For Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
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Margarete Jangård
For Big Boys Gone Bananas!*
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Winner
Dimitri Doganis
For The Imposter
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Simon Chinn
For Searching for Sugar Man
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Heino Deckert
For ¡Vivan las Antipodas!
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
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Winner
Jeffrey Orlowski
For Chasing Ice
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Erik Alexander Wilson and Lynda Hall
For The Imposter
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Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims
For Only the Young
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Ron Fricke
For Samsara
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Victor Kossakovsky
For ¡Vivan las Antipodas!
Audience Choice
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5 Broken Cameras
Directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
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Beauty is Embarrassing
Directed by Neil Berkeley
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Winner
Bully
Directed by Lee Hirsch
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How to Survive a Plague
Directed by David France
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The Imposter
Directed by Bart Layton
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Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Directed by David Gelb
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Kumaré
Directed by Vikram Gandhi
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Marina Abramović The Artist is Present
Directed by Matthew Akers
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Searching for Sugar Man
Directed by Malik Bendjelloul
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Trash Dance
Directed by Andrew Garrison
Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film
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Alison Klayman
For Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
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David France
For How to Survive a Plague
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Matthew Akers
For Marina Abramović The Artist is Present
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Winner
Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims
For Only the Young
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Rodney Ascher
For Room 237
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Malik Bendjelloul
For Searching for Sugar Man
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Peter Nicks
For The Waiting Room
Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score
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Winner
Dial.81
For Detropia
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Anna Nikitin
For The Imposter
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Mark De Gli Antoni
For Into the Abyss
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Jonathan Snipes, William Hutson, The Caretaker (James Kirby)
For Room 237
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Alexander Popov
For ¡Vivan las Antipodas!
Outstanding Achievement
in Graphic Design or Animation
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Neil Berkeley, Anthony Maiuri
For Beauty is Embarrassing
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Nicolas Brault and Tom Hillman
For Herman’s House
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James Swirsky
For Indie Game: The Movie
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Carlos Ramos
For Room 237
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Winner
Oskar Gullstrand and Arvid Steen
For Searching for Sugar Man
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John Szot
For Urbanized
Spotlight Award
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Winner
Argentinian Lesson
Directed by Wojciech Staroń
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Bestiaire
Directed by Denis Côté
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Downeast
Directed by David Redmon and Ashley Sabin
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Meanwhile in Mamelodi
Directed by Benjamin Kahlmeyer
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Vol Special (Special Flight)
Directed by Fernand Melgar
Outstanding Achievement
in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking
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Cutting Loose
Directed by Finlay Pretsell and Adrian McDowall
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Family Nightmare
Directed by Dustin Guy Defa
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Winner
Good Bye Mandima (Kwa Heri Mandima)
Directed by Robert-Jan Lacombe
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Into the Middle of Nowhere
Directed by Anna Francis Ewert
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Paradise (Paraíso)
Directed by Nadav Kurtz
Heterodox Award
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Caesar Must Die (Cesare deve moirire)
Directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
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Compliance
Directed by Cragi Zobel
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Winner
Museum Hours
Directed by Jem Cohen
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No
Directed by Pablo Larrain
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An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Directed by Terence Nance
Legacy Award
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Winner
The War Room
Directed by Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker