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Retrospective · 16th Annual Cinema Eye Honors

2023

Honoring the year’s outstanding nonfiction filmmaking. Ceremony held January 12, 2023 at Museum of the Moving Image.

  1. Honoree · Nonfiction Feature & Cinematography +2

    All That Breathes

    Directed by Shaunak Sen

2023 Honorees

The 2023 Honors

20 categories

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Nonfiction Feature Honoree All That Breathes
Direction Honoree Laura Poitras For All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

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Debut Feature Honoree Alex Pritz For The Territory

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Audience Choice Prize Honoree Navalny
Cinematography Honoree Ben Bernhard & Riju Das For All That Breathes

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Editing Honoree Erin Casper & Jocelyne Chaput For Fire of Love

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Original Music Score Honoree Nicolas Godin For Fire of Love

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Production Honoree Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller & Shane Boris For Navalny
Sound Design Honoree Samir Foco, John Warhurst & Nina Hartstone For Moonage Daydream
Visual Design Tied honorees Lucy Munger, Kara Blake & Rui Ting Ji / Stefan Nadelman

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Nonfiction Short Honoree Nuisance Bear
Nonfiction Series Honoree Black and Missing
Anthology Series Honoree How To with John Wilson (Season Two)
Broadcast Film Honoree Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes
Broadcast Cinematography Honoree Michael Taylor, Judd Overton, Nathan Barlow & Toby Ralph For Playing with Sharks

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Broadcast Editing Honoree Meg Ramsay For We Need To Talk About Cosby

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Spotlight Award Honoree Master of Light
Heterodox Award Honoree Aftersun
Legacy Award Honoree Crumb
Unforgettables Honorees Mohammad Saud / Nadeem Shehzad / Nan Goldin / Chun Siev / Rebeca Huntt / Katia Krafft / Maurice Krafft / Gabby Giffords / Reid Davenport / Zarifa Ghafari / Eli Timoner / Doris Muñoz / Brandon Lee / Alexei Navalny / Sinead O’Connor / Robert Downey Sr. / Bitaté Uru-eu-wau-wau / Neidinha Bandeira

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