Sugarcane, the story of sexual abuse and disappearances at a school for Indigenous children in British Columbia, leads the nominations for the prestigious documentary-focused Cinema Eye Honors awards with six. Four films are next with five noms each: Dahomey, Eno, Frida and No Other Land. See the full list below.
Sugarcane, Dahomey and No Other Land will vie for the marquee Nonfiction Feature prize along with Black Box Diaries, Daughters, Look Into My Eyes and Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat. This is the first year that the named nominees in the Nonfiction Feature category will include the entire creative team: directors, producers, editors, cinematographers, composers, sound designers, visual designers and significant on-screen participants.
The producers of Sugarcane, No Other Land, Hollywoodgate, Mistress Dispeller, Porcelain War and Union are up for the Production prize. The Cinema Eye winner in that category has gone on to take the Documentary Feature Academy Award five of the past 10 years, including the past two with 20 Days in Mariupol and Navalny.
Cinema Eye Honors trophies
Cinema Eye
The past six winners of the Best Documentary Feature Oscar — 20 Days in Mariupol, Navalny, Summer of Soul, My Octopus Teacher, American Factory and Free Solo — were nominees for the Audience Choice Prize, whose second-round voting will take place in December.
Cinema Eye previously announced its first honorees of the season with the Unforgettables, the on-camera collaborators from eight feature documentaries. The winners were Shiori Ito (Black Box Diaries), Brian Eno (Eno), Lhakpa Sherpa (Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa), Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham (No Other Land), Patrice Jetter (Patrice: The Movie), Jenna Marvin (Queendom), Chris Smalls (Union) and Harper Steele (Will and Harper).
The ceremony for the 18th annual Cinema Eye Honors, which recognize outstanding artistic achievement in nonfiction and documentary films and series, will be held January 9 at New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem. Cinema Eye Week begins January 6 in New York City.
Here are the film nominees for the 18th Cinema Eye Honors and the shortlist for short films, whose will be revealed next month; for the TV noms, click here:
NONFICTION FEATURE
Black Box DiariesShiori Ito, Eric Nyari, Hanna Aqvilin, Ema Ryan Yamazaki, Yuta Okamura, Yuichiro Otsuka, Mark Degli Antoni and Andrew Tracy
DahomeyMati Diop, Eve Robin, Judith Lou Levy, Gabriel Gonzalez, Joséphine Drouin Viallard and Nicholas Becker
DaughtersNatalie Rae, Angela Patton, Lisa Mazzotta, Justin Benoliel, James Cunningham, Mindy Goldberg, Sam Bisbee, Kathryn Everett, Laura Choi Raycroft, Adrian Aurelius, Philip Nicolai Flindt, Michael Cambio Fernandez and Kelsey Lu
Look Into My EyesLana Wilson, Kyle Martin, Hannah Buck and Stephen Maing
No Other LandYuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning, Julius Pollux Rothlaender and Bård Harazi Farbu
Soundtrack to a Coup d’EtatJohan Grimonpre, Daan Milius, Rémi Grellety, Jonathan Wannyn, Rik Chaubet, Ranko Pauković and Alek Bunic Goosse
SugarcaneJulian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie, Kellen Quinn, Christopher LaMarca, Nathan Punwar, Maya Daisy Hawke, Mali Obomsawin, Martin Czembor, Andrea Bella, Michael Feuser and Ed Archie Noisecat
DIRECTION
Mati DiopDahomey
Gary HustwitEno
Lana WilsonLook Into My Eyes
Elizabeth LoMistress Dispeller
Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel SzorNo Other Land
Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily KassieSugarcane
Stephen Maing and Brett StoryUnion
PRODUCTION
Shane Boris, Odessa Rae and Talal DerkiHollywoodgate
Emma D. Miller, Elizabeth Lo and Maggie LiMistress Dispeller
Fabien Greenberg and Bård Kjøge RønningNo Other Land
Paula DuPre’ Pesmen, Aniela Sidorska, Camilla Mazzaferro and Olivia AhnemannPorcelain War
Emily Kassie and Kellen QuinnSugarcane
Mars Verrone and Samantha CurleyUnion
EDITING
Maya Tippet and Marley McDonaldEno
Alexandra StraussErnest Cole: Lost and Found
Carla GutiérrezFrida
Charlotte TourresIntercepted
Hannah BuckLook Into My Eyes
Rik ChaubetSoundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Joséphine Drouin ViallardDahomey
Elizabeth LoMistress Dispeller
Satya Rai NagpualNocturnes
Andrey StefanovPorcelain War
Christopher LaMarcaSugarcane
Olivier SarbilViktor
ORIGINAL SCORE
Wally Badarou and Dean BluntDahomey
Alexeï AïguiErnest Cole: Lost and Found
Victor Hernández StumpfhauserFrida
Nainita DasaiNocturnes
Uno HelmerssonThe Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Mali ObomsawinSugarcane
SOUND DESIGN
Nicolas BeckerDahomey
Nas Parkash and Patrick FrippEno
Alex LaneIntercepted
Tom Paul, Shreyank Nanjappa and Sukanto MazumderNocturnes
Ranko Pauković and Alek Bunic GoosseSoundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Peter Albrechtsen, Nicolas Becker and Heikki KossiViktor
VISUAL DESIGN
Brendan DawesEno
Sofía Inés Cázares and Renata GalindoFrida
Howard BakerPiece by Piece
Brendan Bellomo and BluBlu StudiosPorcelain War
Agniia GaldanovaQueendom
Rasmus Tukia and Ada WikdahlThe Remarkable Life of Ibelin
DEBUT FEATURE
Black Box DiariesDirected by Shiori Ito
DaughtersDirected by Natalie Rae and Angela Patton
FridaDirected by Carla Gutiérrez
Grand Theft HamletDirected by Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane
HollywoodgateDirected by Ibrahim Nash’at
No Other LandDirected by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor
AUDIENCE CHOICE PRIZE
Copa 71Directed by James Erskine and Rachel Ramsay
DaughtersDirected by Natalie Rae and Angela Patton
FridaDirected by Carla Gutiérrez
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa SherpaDirected by Lucy Walker
Porcelain WarDirected by Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev
The Remarkable Life of IbelinDirected by Benjamin Ree
Skywalkers: A Love StoryDirected by Jeff Zimbalist
SugarcaneDirected by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve StoryDirected by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui
Will and HarperDirected by Josh Greenbaum
SPOTLIGHT
Black SnowDirected by Alina Simone
HomegrownDirected by Michel Premo
A New Kind of WildernessDirected by Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
A Photographic MemoryDirected by Rachel Elizabeth Seed
Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each OtherDirected by Jacob Perlmutter and Manon Ouimet
Heterodox
Caught by the TidesDirected by Jia Zhang-ke
KneecapDirected by Rich Peppiatt
My First FilmDirected by Zia Anger
PavementsDirected by Alex Ross Perry
Sing SingDirected by Greg Kwedar
Songs from the HoleDirected by Contessa Gayles
Broadcast Film
Bread & RosesDirected by Sahra Mani | Apple TV+
Girls StateDirected by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss | Apple TV+
Great Photo, Lovely Life: Facing a Family’s SecretsDirected by Amanda Mustard and Rachel Beth Anderson | HBO
The Lady Bird DiariesDirected by Dawn Porter | Hulu
Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.Directed by Jeremy O. Harris | HBO
SpermworldDirected by Lance Oppenheim | FX
SHORTS LIST SEMIFINALISTS
ContractionsDirected by Lynne Sachs | NY Times Op-Docs
Eternal FatherDirected by Ömer Sami | New Yorker
I Am Ready, WardenDirected by Smriti Mundhra | MTV Documentary Films
IncidentDirected by Bill Morrison | New Yorker
Instruments of a Beating HeartDirected by Ema Ryan Yamazaki | NY Times Op-Docs
Love in the Time of MigrationDirected by Erin Semine Kökdil and Chelsea Abbas | LA Times
Makayla’s Voice: A Letter to the WorldDirected by Julio Palacio | Netflix
The MedallionDirected by Ruth Hunduma | New Yorker
A MoveDirected by Elahe Esmaili | NY Times Op-Docs
The Only Girl in the OrchestraDirected by Molly O’Brien | Netflix
A Swim LessonDirected by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack | POV
