Cinema Eye Honors

Cinema Eye Honors
Awarded for Non-fiction Films
Location New York City
Country United States
First awarded 2008
Website http://www.cinemaeyehonors.com/

The "Cinema Eye Honors" are awards recognizing excellence in nonfiction or documentary filmmaking and includes awards for the disciplines of directing, producing, cinematography and editing. The awards are presented each January in New York and have been held since 2011 at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. Founded by filmmaker A. J. Schnack and Toronto International Film Festival Documentary Programmer Thom Powers, "Cinema Eye" was created to celebrate artistic craft in nonfiction filmmaking, addressing a perceived imbalance in the field where awards were given for social impact or importance of topic rather than artistic excellence.

The awards are presented by the Cinema Eye organization, which is currently led by AJ Schnack, filmmaker Esther Robinson, filmmaker Nathan Truesdell, producer Andrea Meditch, former Hot Docs programmer Sean Farnel and filmmaker Laura Poitras. Nominations for the awards are determined by voting of top film festival documentary programmers and winners are voted on by an invited membership of more than 500 documentary film experts. Cinema Eye also presents an Audience Choice Prize where voting is open to the public.

The first "Cinema Eye Honors" were presented at the IFC Center in New York City on March 18, 2008.

Winners in 2008

Winners in 2009

  • Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking - Man on Wire - Dir. James Marsh, Prod. Simon Chinn
  • Outstanding Achievement in Direction - Waltz with Bashir - Ari Folman
  • Outstanding Achievement in Production - Man on Wire - Simon Chinn
  • Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography - Encounters at the End of the World - Peter Zeitlinger
  • Outstanding Achievement in Editing - Man on Wire - Jinx Godfrey
  • Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation - Waltz with Bashir - Yoni Goodman, David Polonsky
  • Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition - Waltz with Bashir - Max Richter
  • Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film - Up the Yangtze - Dir. Yung Chang
  • Outstanding Achievement in an International Feature Film - Waltz with Bashir - Dir. Ari Folman; Prod. Ari Folman, Serge Lalou, Gerhard Meixner, Yael Nahlieli, Roman Paul
  • Honored Shorts - Breadmakers, City of Cranes, Kids + money, One Day, The Tailor
  • Audience Choice Prize - Up the Yangtze - Dir. Yung Chang

Winners in 2010

Winners in 2011

Winners in 2012

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