Flee, Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animated documentary took the top prize at the 15th Annual Cinema Eye Honors, winning the award for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Filmmaking. Jessica Kingdon’s Ascension won three awards, the most of the evening, for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography, Original Score and Debut Feature. Both films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Other awards including Outstanding Direction went to filmmaker Robert Greene for his collaborative documentary, Procession and Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) won the Editing Prize for Joshua Pearson.
E. Chai Vasarhely and Jimmy Chin took the Audience Choice Prize for The Rescue, It’s the 3rd win in the category for the filmmaking duo, having previously won the Audience Prize for Meru and Free Solo.
Three Songs for Benezir, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short, received the Short Film Honor. Amalia Ulman’s El Planeta won the Heterodox Award and Angelo Madsen Minax’ North By Current received the Spotlight Award. Cheryl Dunye’s Heterodox classic The Watermelon Woman received the Legacy Award.
15th Annual Cinema Eye Honors Winners
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN NONFICTION FEATURE FILMMAKING
Flee
Directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Produced by Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTION
Robert Greene
For Procession
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING
Joshua Pearson
For Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
Jessica Kingdon and Nathan Truesdell
For Ascension
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION
Matthew Heineman, Jenna Millman and Leslie Norville
For The First Wave
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE
Dan Deacon
For Ascension
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND DESIGN
Leslie Shatz and Jahn Sood
For The Velvet Underground
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN GRAPHIC DESIGN OR ANIMATION
Kenneth Ladekjær and Jess Nicholls
For Flee
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN A DEBUT FEATURE FILM
Ascension
Directed by Jessica Kingdon
AUDIENCE CHOICE PRIZE
The Rescue
Directed by E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN NONFICTION FILM FOR BROADCAST
In the Same Breath
Directed by Nanfu Wang
HBO
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN NONFICTION SERIES
City So Real
Directed by Steve James National Geographic
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN ANTHOLOGY SERIES
Pretend It’s a City
Martin Scorsese, Fran Liebowitz, David Tedeschi, Ted Griffin, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Joshua Porter, and Margaret Bodde
Netflix
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING IN A NONFICTION FILM OR SERIES FOR BROADCAST
Adam Locke-Norton
For How to with John Wilson
HBO
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY IN A NONFICTION FILM OR SERIES FOR BROADCAST
Ellen Kuras
For David Byrne’s American Utopia
HBO
SPOTLIGHT AWARD
North by Current
Directed by Angelo Minax Madsen
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN NONFICTION SHORT FILMMAKING
Three Songs for Benezir
Directed by Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei
HETERODOX AWARD
El Planeta
Directed by Amalia Ulman
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