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2017 Cinema Eye Honors Award Nominees Announced

The full list of nominees have been announced for this year’s Cinema Eye Honors, New York’s nonfiction film awards. The nominees include 37 features and 5 shorts, with Raoul Peck‘s I Am Not Your Negro and the ESPN 30 for 30 feature OJ: Made in America leading with 5 nominations each.

The ceremony for the 10th edition of the awards will take place on January 11 at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. Take a look below at the full list of nominees and head over to the official web site at: http://cinemaeyehonors.com.

Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking

Cameraperson
Directed by Kirsten Johnson | Produced by Kirsten Johnson and Marilyn Ness

Fire at Sea
Directed by Gianfranco Rosi | Produced by Donatello Palermo, Gianfranco Rosi, Serge Lalou and Camille Laemlé

I Am Not Your Negro
Directed by Raoul Peck| Produced by Rémi Grellety, Raoul Peck and Hébert Peck

OJ: Made in America
Directed by Ezra Edelman | Produced by Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow 

Weiner
Directed and Produced by Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg


Outstanding Achievement in Direction

Kirsten Johnson | Cameraperson

Gianfranco Rosi | Fire at Sea

Raoul Peck | I Am Not Your Negro

Robert Greene | Kate Plays Christine

Ezra Edelman | OJ: Made in America

 

Outstanding Achievement in Editing

Nels Bangerter | Cameraperson

Clay Tweel | Gleason

Alexandra Strauss | I Am Not Your Negro

Bret Granato, Maya Mumma and Ben Sozanski | OJ: Made in America

Eli Despres | Weiner

 

Outstanding Achievement in Production

Stacey Reiss, Sharon Chang and Otto Bell | The Eagle Huntress

Donatello Palermo, Gianfranco Rosi, Serge Lalou and Camille Laemmlé | Fire at Sea

Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow | OJ: Made in America

Carthew Neal | Tickled

Marc Shmuger and Alex Gibney | Zero Days

 

Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography

Michal Marczak and Maciej Twardowski | All These Sleepless Nights

Kirsten Johnson | Cameraperson

Jarred Alterman | Contemporary Color

Simon Niblett | The Eagle Huntress

Gianfranco Rosi | Fire at Sea

 

Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Films Made for Television

Happy Valley
Directed by Amir Bar-Lev | Produced by Jonathan Koch, Steve Michaels, John Battsek and Ken Dornstein

Heroin: Cape Cod, USA
Directed and Produced by Steven Okazaki

How to Dance in Ohio
Directed by Alexandra Shiva | Produced by Alexandra Shiva and Bari Pulman

Making a Murderer
Directed and Produced by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
Directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato | Produced by Katharina Otto-Bernstein and Mona Card

My Beautiful Broken Brain
Directed by Sophie Robinson and Lotje Sodderlan | Produced by Sophie Robinson
 

Audience Choice Prize

Gleason | Directed by Clay Tweel

I Am Not Your Negro | Directed by Raoul Peck

Life, Animated | Directed by Roger Ross Williams

Miss Sharon Jones! | Directed by Barbara Kopple

Mr. Gaga | Directed by Tomer Heymann

Presenting Princess Shaw | Directed by Ido Haar

Sonita | Directed by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami

Tickled | Directed by David Farrier and Dylan Reeve

Tower | Directed by Keith Maitland

Weiner | Directed by Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg

 

Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film

Craig Atkinson | Do Not Resist

Otto Bell | The Eagle Huntress

Jessica Edwards | Mavis!

Nanfu Wang | Hooligan Sparrow

David Farrier and Dylan Reeve | Tickled

Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel | When Two Worlds Collide

 

Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score

Lubomir Grzelak | All These Sleepless Nights

Nominees to be Determined | Contemporary Color

Alexei Aigui | I Am Not Your Negro

Alex Lu | In the Pursuit of Silence

Gary Lionelli | OJ: Made in America

 

Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design or Animation

Chris Kirk and Syd Garon | Author: The JT Leroy Story

Philippe Sonrier and Suzie Cimato | Life, Animated

Nominees to be Determined | Nuts!

Craig Staggs and Keith Maitland | Tower

Nominees to be Determined | Zero Days

 

Spotlight Award 

All this Panic | Directed by Jenny Gage

Among the Believers | Directed by Hemal Trivedi and Mohammed Ali Naqvi

Dead Slow Ahead | Directed by Mauro Herce

The Land of the Enlightened | Directed by Pieter-Jan De Pue

The Pearl | Directed by Jessica Dimmock and Christopher LaMarca

Les Sauteurs (Those Who Jump) | Directed by Estephan Wagner and Moritz Siebert

 

Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking

Bacon and God’s Wrath | Directed by Sol Friedman

Extremis | Directed by Dan Krauss

La Laguna | Directed by Aaron Schock

My Aleppo | Directed by Melissa Langer

Peace in the Valley | Directed by Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher

 

The Unforgettables
The year’s most notable and significant nonfiction film subjects (previously announced)

Michal Huszcza | All These Sleepless Nights

Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman | Audrie and Daisy

Laura Albert | Author: The JT Leroy Story

Kirsten Johnson | Cameraperson

Aisholpan Nurgaiv | The Eagle Huntress

Samuela Pucillo | Fire at Sea

Steve Gleason and Michel Varisco | Gleason

Ye Haiyan | Hooligan Sparrow

Kate Shiel | Kate Plays Christine

Owen Suskind | Life, Animated

Sharon Jones | Miss Sharon Jones!

Peter Dunning | Peter and the Farm

Princess Shaw | Presenting Princess Shaw

Sonita Alidazeh | Sonita

Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner | Weiner

 

 

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