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Cinema Eye Honors The Cinema Eye Honors were launched in late 2007 to recognize exemplary craft and innovation in nonfiction film.

The Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking were founded in late 2007 to recognize and honor exemplary craft and innovation in nonfiction film. Cinema Eye’s mission is to advocate for, recognize and promote the highest commitment to rigor and artistry in the nonfiction field. Since 2011, the Cinema Eye Honors Awards Ceremony have been held in early January at the Museum of the Moving Image in

Astoria, New York. The Awards Ceremony marks the conclusion of Cinema Eye Honors Week, several days of film screenings and events honoring the year’s nominees and the best of nonfiction cinema. Through Cinema Eye Week and its activities throughout the year, Cinema Eye seeks to build and nurture the nonfiction film community.

Your 2026 Oscar (and Cinema Eye) winners. Congratulations .nobodyagainstputin and and to all of this year’s awards winn...
16/03/2026

Your 2026 Oscar (and Cinema Eye) winners.

Congratulations .nobodyagainstputin and and to all of this year’s awards winners and nominees.

What an honor to share the world with the incomparable Frederick Wiseman.
16/02/2026

What an honor to share the world with the incomparable Frederick Wiseman.

A huge congratulations to all of our Cinema Eye Alumni who were nominated for an Oscar this morning! We were excited to ...
22/01/2026

A huge congratulations to all of our Cinema Eye Alumni who were nominated for an Oscar this morning! We were excited to see that all five of this year’s nominees for Best Documentary Feature were Cinema Eye Honorees this year! Hooray for Come See Me in the Good Light .nobodyagainstputin and

And for the 2nd year in a row, four of the five nominees for Best Documentary Short were up for our own short film award. Congrats Armed with Only a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud and -

Our Heterodox Award winner was nominated for Best International Feature!

We also loved seeing our alums from previous years called out today! Especially happy for who won the very first Cinema Eye ever presented in 2008 - making history today as one of the first nominees for Best Casting.

We were also excited to see alums and .panahi recognized for their amazing films this year!

Congratulations to all!

What a night! Huge congratulations to all of this year’s Cinema Eye Honors winners and nominees.
11/01/2026

What a night! Huge congratulations to all of this year’s Cinema Eye Honors winners and nominees.

Our 2026 Nominees for Original Score, Sound Design and Visual DesignOriginal Music ScoreSam Slater2000 Meters to Andriiv...
13/11/2025

Our 2026 Nominees for Original Score, Sound Design and Visual Design

Original Music Score
Sam Slater
2000 Meters to Andriivka

Blake Neely
Come See Me in the Good Light

Maya Shenfeld
Cover-Up

Kris Bowers
The Eyes of Ghana

Todd Griffin
Folktales

Alexeï Aïgui
Orwell: 2+2=5

Sound Design
Alexander Dudarev
Architecton

James LeBrecht, Greg Francis and Nina Hartstone
Deaf President Now!

Andreas Lindberg Svensson
Folktales

Bonnie Wild
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore

Sean Ono Lennon, Sam Gannon and Simon Hilton
One to One: John and Yoko

Daniel Timmons and Ben Kruse
Seeds

Visual Design
Nominees To Be Determined
Ghost Boy

Nominees To Be Determined
In Waves and War

Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Josh Shaffner
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley

Norn Jordan
The New Yorker at 100

Joseph Midthun
Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted

Nominees To Be Determined
Zodiac Killer Project

Celebrating new voices in documentary film with our Debut Feature and Spotlight Awards. Here are this year’s nominees:De...
13/11/2025

Celebrating new voices in documentary film with our Debut Feature and Spotlight Awards. Here are this year’s nominees:

Debut
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
Directed By Shoshannah Stern

Monk in Pieces
Directed By Billy Shebar and David C. Roberts

Remaining Native
Directed By Paige Bethmann

Seeds
Directed By Brittany Shyne

The Shepherd and the Bear
Directed By Max Keegan

Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted
Directed By Isaac Gale and Ryan Olson

Spotlight Award
Always
Directed By Deming Chen

The Encampments
Directed By Michael T Workman and Kei Pritsker

Flophouse America
Directed By Monica Strømdahl

Sanatorium
Directed By Gar O’Rourke

To the West, in Zapata
Directed By David Bim

This year’s nominees for Outstanding Production and Outstanding Cinematography:ProductionMstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizn...
13/11/2025

This year’s nominees for Outstanding Production and Outstanding Cinematography:

Production
Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner and Raney Aronson-Rath
2000 Meters to Andriivka

Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman
The Alabama Solution

James Jones
Antidote

Petra Costa and Alessandra Orofino
Apocalypse in the Tropics

Helle Faber
Mr. Nobody Against Putin

Julia Loktev
My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 - Last Air in Moscow

Cinematography
Artur Tort
Afternoons of Solitude

Ben Bernhard
Architecton

Brandon Somerhalder
Come See Me in the Good Light

Lars Erlend Tubaas Øymo and Tor Edvin Eliassen
Folktales

Brittany Shyne
Seeds

Jean Dakar
The Tale of Silyan

More than 60,000 documentary fans from around the globe voted and these are their nominees for the Audience Choice Prize...
13/11/2025

More than 60,000 documentary fans from around the globe voted and these are their nominees for the Audience Choice Prize:

Apocalypse in the Tropics
Directed By Petra Costa

Coexistence, My Ass!
Directed By Amber Fares

Come See Me in the Good Light
Directed By Ryan White

The Eyes of Ghana
Directed By Ben Proudfoot

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
Directed By Amy Berg

The Librarians
Directed By Kim A. Snyder

Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
Directed By Shoshannah Stern

Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Directed By David Borenstein

Prime Minister
Directed By Michelle Walsh and Lindsay Utz

The Tale of Silyan
Directed By Tamara Kotevska

Presenting the 2026 nominees for Outstanding Nonfiction Feature, Direction and Editing! Nonfiction Feature2000 Meters to...
13/11/2025

Presenting the 2026 nominees for Outstanding Nonfiction Feature, Direction and Editing!

Nonfiction Feature
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson-Rath, Alex Babenko and Sam Slater

Afternoons of Solitude
Albert Serra, Montse Triola, Luis Ferrón, Pedro Palacios, Artur Tort, Mac Verdaguer and Jordi Ribas

Come See Me in the Good Light
Ryan White, Jessica Hargrave, Tig Notaro, Stef Willen, Brandon Somerhalder, Berenice Chávez, Blake Neely, Dave Richards, Brent Kiser, Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley

Cover-Up
Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus, Yoni Golijov, Olivia Streisand, Mia Cioffi Henry, Amy Foote, Peter Bowman, Maya Shenfeld and Seymour Hersh

The Perfect Neighbor
Geeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne, Nikon Kwantu, Sam Bisbee, Viridiana Lieberman, Laura Heinzinger and Felipe Messeder

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
Sepideh Farsi, Javad Djavahery, Fatma Hassona, Cinna Peyghamy and Pierre Carrasco

Seeds
Brittany Shyne, Danielle Varga, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon, Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Daniel Timmons, Ben Kruse and Willie Head Jr.

Direction
Mstyslav Chernov
2000 Meters to Andriivka

Albert Serra
Afternoons of Solitude

Ryan White
Come See Me in the Good Light

Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus
Cover-Up

Geeta Gandbhir
The Perfect Neighbor

David Osit
Predators

Brittany Shyne
Seeds

Editing
Michelle Mizner
2000 Meters to Andriivka

Amy Foote, Peter Bowman and Laura Poitras
Cover-Up

Alexander Kashcheev
I Am Not Everything I Want to Be

Julia Loktev and Michael Taylor
My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 - Last Air in Moscow

Alexandra Strauss
Orwell: 2+2=5

Viridiana Lieberman
The Perfect Neighbor

Stephan Krumbiegel, Olaf Voigtländer and Alfredo Castro
Riefenstahl

We love LA and we loved having so many of this year’s filmmakers who are longlisted for our annual Audience Choice Prize...
02/11/2025

We love LA and we loved having so many of this year’s filmmakers who are longlisted for our annual Audience Choice Prize at our recent Fall Lunch in Los Angeles, including the teams from The Tale of Silyan, Deaf President Now!, Prime Minister, Cover-Up, See Me in the Good Light, Apocalypse in the Tropics and !

Voting to select this year’s nominees closes Monday, November 3 at 5pm PT. Link in bio!

We had quite a time last week in Los Angeles gathering the documentary community for our annual Fall Lunch. Huge thank y...
30/10/2025

We had quite a time last week in Los Angeles gathering the documentary community for our annual Fall Lunch. Huge thank you to our hosts and for their continued support of this event!


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