The Cinema Eye Honors recognizing the best in documentary filmmaking have unveiled nominations for its 10th edition. Raoul Peck’s James Baldwin docu I Am Not Your Negro and Ezra Edelman’s five-part OJ: Made In America lead the pack with five noms apiece. The awards, part of New York’s Cinema Eye Week, will be bestowed January 11 at the Museum of the Moving Image. Steve James (Hoop Dreams) will host.
Here’s the list of nominees:
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
For A&E IndieFilms: Molly Thompson, Robert DeBitetto and David McKillop
Heroin: Cape Cod, USA
Directed and Produced by Steven Okazaki
For HBO Documentary Films: Sara Bernstein and Sheila Nevins
How to Dance in Ohio
Directed by Alexandra Shiva | Produced by Alexandra Shiva and Bari Pulman
For HBO Documentary Films: Nancy Abraham and Sheila Nevins
Making a Murderer
Directed and Produced by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos
For Netflix: Lisa Nishimura and Adam Del Deo
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
Directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato | Produced by Katharina Otto-Bernstein and Mona Card
For HBO Documentary Films: Sara Bernstein and Sheila Nevins
My Beautiful Broken Brain
Directed by Sophie Robinson and Lotje Sodderlan | Produced by Sophie Robinson
For Netflix: Lisa Nishimura and Adam Del Deo
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
