The Cinema Eye Honors are awards recognizing excellence in nonfiction or documentary filmmaking and include awards for the disciplines of directing, producing,
cinematography
Cinematography (from ancient Greek κίνημα, ''kìnema'' "movement" and γράφειν, ''gràphein'' "to write") is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography.
Cinematographers use a lens to focu ...
and
editing
Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, photographic, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. The editing process can involve correction, condensation, orga ...
. The awards are presented each January in New York and have been held since 2011 at the
Museum of the Moving Image
The Museum of the Moving Image is a media museum located in a former building of the historic Astoria Studios (now Kaufman Astoria Studios), in the Astoria neighborhood in Queens, New York City. The museum originally opened in 1988 as the Amer ...
in Astoria, Queens. Cinema Eye was created to celebrate artistic craft in nonfiction filmmaking, addressing a perceived imbalance in the field where awards were given for social impact or importance of topic rather than artistic excellence.
History
Nominations for the awards are determined by voting of top film festival documentary programmers and winners are voted on by an invited membership of more than 800 documentary film experts. Cinema Eye also presents an Audience Choice Prize where voting is open to the public and the Heterodox Award.
The first Cinema Eye Honors were presented at the
IFC Center
IFC Center is an art house movie theater in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City. Located at 323 Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) at West 3rd Street, it was formerly the Waverly Theater, an art house movie theater. IFC Center is ...
in New York City on March 18, 2008.
Winners Through the Years
Winners in 2008
*Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking - ''
Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
''Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)'' is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Jason Kohn about corruption and kidnapping in Brazil.
Kohn has said "I really thought of ''Manda Bala'' as a non-fiction ''RoboCop'' depicting a very real, broken, and ...
Taxi to the Dark Side
''Taxi to the Dark Side'' is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Alex Gibney, and produced by Gibney, Eva Orner, and Susannah Shipman. It won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It focuses on the December 2002 killing of ...
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Alex Gibney
Philip Alexander Gibney (; born October 23, 1953) is an American documentary film director and producer. In 2010, ''Esquire'' magazine said Gibney "is becoming the most important documentarian of our time".
Gibney's works as director include '' ...
*Outstanding Achievement in Production - ''
Ghosts of Cité Soleil
A ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that is believed to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to rea ...
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Seth Kanegis
Seth,; el, Σήθ ''Sḗth''; ; "placed", "appointed") in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Mandaeism, and Sethianism, was the third son of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel, their only other child mentioned by name in the Hebrew Bible. ...
Andy Grieve
Andy may refer to:
People
*Andy (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
*Horace Andy (born 1951), Jamaican roots reggae songwriter and singer born Horace Hinds
*Katja Andy (1907–2013), German-American pianist and piano ...
*Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation - '' Chicago 10'' - Animation by
Curious Pictures
Curious Pictures (stylized as curious?ictures) was an American animation studio and multi-media company that was primarily based in New York City that produced television programs, commercials, animation, and video games. The company is known for ...
*Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film - ''
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid (born Henry McCarty; September 17 or November 23, 1859July 14, 1881), also known by the pseudonym William H. Bonney, was an outlaw and gunfighter of the American Old West, who killed eight men before he was shot and killed at t ...
Pernille Rose Grønkjær
Pernille Rose Grønkjær (born in 1973 in Denmark) is a Danish film director.
Grønkjær graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1997. She is the director of various documentary films for the screen and for television including ', ...
Seth Gordon
Seth Lewis Gordon (born July 15, 1974) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and film editor. He has produced and directed for film and television, including for PBS, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the United Nations Staf ...
Winners in 2009
*Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking - ''
Man on Wire
''Man on Wire'' is a 2008 documentary film directed by James Marsh. The film chronicles Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center. It is based on Petit's 2002 book, ''To Reach the Clouds'', ...
Simon Chinn
Simon Chinn is a British film producer, founder of Red Box Films and co-founder of Lightbox. He produced a number of feature documentaries, including ''Man on Wire'' and ''Searching for Sugar Man'', both winners of the Academy Award for Best Docu ...
*Outstanding Achievement in Direction - ''
Waltz with Bashir
''Waltz with Bashir'' ( he, ואלס עם באשיר, translit. ''Vals Im Bashir'') is a 2008 Israeli adult animated war documentary drama film written, produced, and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman's search for lost memories o ...
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Ari Folman
Ari Folman ( he, ארי פולמן) (born December 17, 1962) is an Israeli film director, screenwriter, animator, and film-score composer. He directed the Oscar-nominated animated documentary film ''Waltz with Bashir'' (2008) and the live-a ...
*Outstanding Achievement in Production - ''Man on Wire'' - Simon Chinn
*Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography - ''
Encounters at the End of the World
''Encounters at the End of the World'' is a 2007 American documentary film by Werner Herzog about Antarctica and the people who choose to spend time there. It was released in North America on June 11, 2008, and distributed by ThinkFilm. At the 81 ...
'' - Peter Zeitlinger
*Outstanding Achievement in Editing - ''Man on Wire'' - Jinx Godfrey
*Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation - ''Waltz with Bashir'' -
Yoni Goodman
Yoni Goodman ( he, יוני גודמן; born 1976) is an Israeli animator.
Biography
Goodman began his career as an illustrator and graphic designer, working for two of Israel's major newspapers, ''Maariv'' and ''Haaretz''. In 1998, he studied ...
,
David Polonsky
David Polonsky (born 1973) is an Israeli book illustrator and artistic film director.
His illustrations appeared in all major Israeli magazines and newspapers and illustrated many children's books, for which he received multiple awards. He also d ...
*Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition - ''Waltz with Bashir'' -
Max Richter
Max Richter (; ; born 22 March 1966) is a German-born British composer and pianist. He works within postminimalist and contemporary classical styles. Richter is classically trained, having graduated in composition from the University of Edinbur ...
*Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film - ''
Up the Yangtze
''Up the Yangtze'' is a 2007 documentary film directed by Chinese-Canadian director Yung Chang. The film focuses on people affected by the building of the Three Gorges Dam across the Yangtze river in Hubei, China. The theme of the film is the ...
'' - Dir.
Yung Chang
Yung Chang is a Chinese Canadian film director and was part of the collective member directors of Canadian film production firm EyeSteelFilm.
Chang is a graduate of Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal (BFA 99), the ...
*Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking - '' The Cove'' - Dir.
Louie Psihoyos
Louis (Louie) Psihoyos (born April 15, 1957) is an American photographer and documentary film director known for his still photography and contributions to National Geographic. Psihoyos, a certified SCUBA diver, has become increasingly concerned ...
Fisher Stevens
Fisher Stevens (born Steven Fisher; November 27, 1963) is an American actor, director, producer and writer. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayals of Ben in ''Short Circuit'' and ''Short Circuit 2'', Chuck Fishman on the 1990s televis ...
Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda (; born Arlette Varda; 30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist. Her pioneering work was central to the development of the widely influential French New Wave film ...
*Outstanding Achievement in Production - ''The Cove'' - Paula DuPré Pesman, Fisher Stevens
*Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography - ''The Cove'' - Brook Aitken
*Outstanding Achievement in Editing - ''
Burma VJ
''Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country'' is a 2008 Danish documentary film directed by Anders Østergaard. It follows the Saffron Revolution against the military regime in Burma. The "VJ" in the title stands for "video journalists." Some of ...
Thomas Papapetros
Thomas may refer to:
People
* List of people with given name Thomas
* Thomas (name)
* Thomas (surname)
* Saint Thomas (disambiguation)
* Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church
* Thomas the A ...
*Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation
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Food, Inc.
''Food, Inc.'' is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Robert Kenner
Omar Majeed
Omar Majeed is a Pakistani Canadian film director and producer who studied cinema at York University Film School and later on studied editing at the International Academy of Design in Toronto. He is the son of Pakistani actress and singer Musarr ...
,
Brett Gaylor
Brett Gaylor is a Canadian documentary filmmaker living in Victoria, British Columbia. He grew up on Galiano Island, British Columbia. He was formerly the VP of Mozilla's Webmaker Program. His documentary, ''Do Not Track'', explores privacy and ...
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
''Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo'' is a 2009 documentary directed by American filmmaker Jessica Oreck. The documentary shows how insects are entwined with Japan from past to present. A Japanese narrator reads poetry, reads legends, and give informati ...
The September Issue
''The September Issue'' is a 2009 American documentary film directed by R.J. Cutler about the behind-the-scenes drama that follows editor-in-head Anna Wintour and her staff during the production of the September 2007 issue of American ''Vogue'' ma ...
'' - Dir.
R. J. Cutler
R. J. Cutler (born 1962) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, television producer and theater director.
His work includes the documentary films ''The War Room'', '' A Perfect Candidate'', ''Thin'', ''The September Issue'', ''The World Accord ...
Ross McElwee
Ross McElwee is an American documentary filmmaker known for his autobiographical films about his family and personal life, usually interwoven with an episodic journey that intersects with larger political or philosophical issues. His humorous an ...
Winners in 2011
*Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking - ''
Exit Through the Gift Shop
''Exit Through the Gift Shop'' is a 2010 British documentary film directed by street artist Banksy. It tells the story of Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant in Los Angeles who, over the course of several years, filmed a host of street artists a ...
'' - Dir.
Banksy
Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigrams ...
; Prod. Jaimie D’Cruz
*Outstanding Achievement in Direction - ''
The Oath The Oath may refer to:
Books
* ''The Oath'' (Wiesel novel), a 1973 novel by Elie Wiesel
* ''The Oath'' (Peretti novel), a 1995 novel by Frank E. Peretti
* '' The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court'', a 2012 book by Jeffrey Toobin ...
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Laura Poitras
Laura Poitras (; born February 2, 1964) is an American director and producer of documentary films.
Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for ''Citizenfour'', about Edwa ...
Lixin Fan
Lixin Fan (範立欣, Fàn Lìxīn), b. March 1977, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China,範立欣 覓 趣
(Miqu) is a
*Outstanding Achievement in Editing - ''
Exit Through the Gift Shop
''Exit Through the Gift Shop'' is a 2010 British documentary film directed by street artist Banksy. It tells the story of Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant in Los Angeles who, over the course of several years, filmed a host of street artists a ...
'' - Chris King, Tom Fulford
*Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation - ''
Gasland
''Gasland'' is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Josh Fox. It focuses on communities in the United States where natural gas drilling activity was a concern and, specifically, on hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), a method ...
Alex Tyson
Alex is a given name. It can refer to a shortened version of Alexander, Alexandra, Alexis.
People
Multiple
*Alex Brown (disambiguation), multiple people
*Alex Gordon (disambiguation), multiple people
*Alex Harris (disambiguation), multiple peop ...
Lixin Fan
Lixin Fan (範立欣, Fàn Lìxīn), b. March 1977, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China,範立欣 覓 趣
(Miqu) is a ; Prod. Mila Aung-Thwin, Daniel Cross
*Spotlight Award - ''
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the ...
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Andrei Ujică
Andrei Ujică (born 1951 in Timișoara, Romania) is a Romanian screenwriter and director.
Life and work
Ujicǎ studied literature in Timișoara, Bucharest and Heidelberg. He moved to Germany in 1981. In 1990 he began making films. Together wit ...
Ricki Stern
''Ricki Stern'' is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, most known for her documentarian work, and author. She works alongside Anne Sundberg. She is most known for ''The Trials of Darryl Hunt'' (2006), '' The Devil Came on Horsebac ...
Putty Hill
''Putty Hill'' is a 2010 American independent drama film directed by Matthew Porterfield, and starring Sky Ferreira, Zoe Vance, and James Siebor. The plot focuses on friends and family who gather to remember a young man in the aftermath of his dea ...
Grey Gardens
''Grey Gardens'' is a 1975 American documentary film by Albert and David Maysles. The film depicts the everyday lives of two reclusive, upper-class women, a mother and daughter both named Edith Beale, who lived in poverty at Grey Gardens, a ...
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Albert Maysles
Albert Maysles (November 26, 1926 – March 5, 2015) and his brother David Maysles (January 10, 1931 – January 3, 1987; ) were an American documentary filmmaking team known for their work in the Direct Cinema style. Their best-known films i ...
,
David Maysles
Albert Maysles (November 26, 1926 – March 5, 2015) and his brother David Maysles (January 10, 1931 – January 3, 1987; ) were an American documentary filmmaking team known for their work in the Direct Cinema style. Their best-known films i ...
Muffie Meyer
Marion "Muffie" Meyer is an American director, whose productions include documentaries, theatrical features, television series and children’s films. Films that she directed are the recipients of two Emmy Awards, CINE Golden Eagles, the Japan Pr ...
and
Susan Froemke
Susan Froemke (born November 5, 1947) is an American film director and producer.
Froemke was the associate producer and one of the editors of the influential 1975 documentary film ''Grey Gardens'', which was selected for preservation in the Natio ...
Winners in 2012
*Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking - ''
The Interrupters
''The Interrupters'' is a 2011 documentary film, produced by Kartemquin Films, that tells the story of three violence interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. It examines a year in which Chi ...
Alex Kotlowitz
Alex Kotlowitz (born March 31, 1955) is an American journalist, author, and filmmaker. His 1991 book ''There Are No Children Here'' was a national bestseller and received the Christopher Award and Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Jou ...
*Outstanding Achievement in Direction - ''
The Interrupters
''The Interrupters'' is a 2011 documentary film, produced by Kartemquin Films, that tells the story of three violence interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. It examines a year in which Chi ...
'' - Steve James
*Outstanding Achievement in Production - ''
Pina Pina may refer to:
People
* Pina (name), a list of people with the given name, nickname, surname or stage name
Places
* Pina, Nepal, a village development committee
* Pina, Mallorca, Spain, a town
* Pina de Ebro, a municipality of the provin ...
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Gian-Piero Ringel
Gian-Piero Ringel (born 1976 in Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg) is a German producer.
Gian-Piero Ringel studied film production at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb). Together with Wim Wenders he founded Neue Road Movies I ...
,
Wim Wenders
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (; born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, and photographer. He is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among many honors, he has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Docum ...
*Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography - "
Hell and Back Again
''Hell and Back Again'' is a 2011 American-British-Afghan documentary film produced, shot, and directed by Danfung Dennis, about a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps who returns from the Afghanistan conflict with a badly broken leg and po ...
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Danfung Dennis
Danfung Dennis is a still photographer and documentary film maker. He graduated from the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. His images have been published in ''Newsweek'', ''Time'', ''The New York Times'', ''The Washing ...
John Kusiak
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John Kusiak (born July 20, 1948) is an American composer best known for his work with documentary filmmaker Errol Morris. He won the 2012 Cinema Eye Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score for Morris' '' Tablo ...
*Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film - '' The Arbor'' - Dir.
Clio Barnard
Clio Barnard (1 January 1965) is a British director of documentary and feature films. She won widespread critical acclaim and multiple awards for her debut, '' The Arbor'', an experimental documentary about Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar. I ...
Tatiana Huezo Sanchez
Tatiana Huezo Sánchez (; born 9 January 1972) is a film director of Salvadoran and Mexican nationality, residing in Mexico. Her first film, ' (2011), a documentary about the Salvadoran Civil War, has been awarded internationally. In 2016 she ...
*Audience Choice Prize - ''
Buck
Buck may refer to:
Common meanings
* A colloquialism for a dollar or similar currency
* An adult male in some animal species - see List of animal names
* Derby shoes, nicknamed "bucks" for the common use of buckskin in their making
People
*Buck ...
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Cindy Meehl
Cindy Meehl is an American documentary filmmaker. Her first film, ''Buck (film), Buck'', was released on June 17, 2011, after a successful set of showings at U.S. film festivals including the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
Biography
Early life
Ci ...
*Heterodox Award - Beginners - Dir. Mike Mills
*Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking - "
Diary
A diary is a written or audiovisual record with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period. Diaries have traditionally been handwritten but are now also often digital. A personal ...
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Tim Hetherington
Timothy Alistair Telemachus Hetherington (5 December 1970 – 20 April 2011) was a British photojournalist. He produced books, films and other work that "ranged from multi-screen installations, to fly-poster exhibitions, to handheld de ...
*Hell Yeah Prize - ''
Paradise Lost
''Paradise Lost'' is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse (poetry), verse. A second edition fo ...
'' Trilogy - Dir.
Joe Berlinger
Joseph Berlinger (born October 30, 1961) is an American documentary filmmaker and producer. Particularly focused on true crime documentaries, Berlinger's films and docu-series draw attention to social justice issues in the US and abroad in such ...
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Bruce Sinofsky
Bruce Sinofsky (March 31, 1956 – February 21, 2015) was an American documentary film director, particularly known for his films the '' Paradise Lost'' trilogy, '' Brother's Keeper'' and '' Metallica: Some Kind of Monster'', all created with Joe ...
*2012 Legacy Award - ''
Titicut Follies
''Titicut Follies'' is a 1967 American direct cinema documentary film produced, written, and directed by Frederick Wiseman and filmed by John Marshall. It deals with the patient-inmates of Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, a ...
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Frederick Wiseman
Frederick Wiseman (born January 1, 1930) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and theater director. His work is "devoted primarily to exploring American institutions". He has been called "one of the most important and original filmmakers wor ...
Winners in 2013
* Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking - '' 5 Broken Cameras'' - Dir.
Emad Burnat
Emad Burnat is a State of Palestine, Palestinian farmer and filmmaker. He is the first Palestinian nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Film
His documentary ''5 Broken Cameras'' is a first-hand account of life and demonst ...
Emad Burnat
Emad Burnat is a State of Palestine, Palestinian farmer and filmmaker. He is the first Palestinian nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Film
His documentary ''5 Broken Cameras'' is a first-hand account of life and demonst ...
and Guy Davidi
* Outstanding Achievement in Direction - ''
Detropia
''Detropia'' is a 2012 American documentary film, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, about the city of Detroit, Michigan. It focuses on the decline of the economy of Detroit due to long-term changes in the automobile industry, and the effec ...
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Heidi Ewing
Heidi Ewing is an American documentary filmmaker and the co-director of ''Jesus Camp'', '' The Boys of Baraka'', '' 12th & Delaware'', ''DETROPIA'', ''Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You'' (Sundance Film Festival), '' One of Us'' (Toronto ...
and
Rachel Grady
Rachel () was a Biblical figure, the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel. Rachel's father was Laban. Her older sister was Leah, Jacob's first wife. Her aun ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Production - '' The Imposter'' - Dimitri Doganis
* Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography - ''
Chasing Ice
''Chasing Ice'' is a 2012 documentary film about the efforts of nature photographer James Balog and his Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) to publicize the effects of climate change. The film was directed by Jeff Orlowski. It was released in the United Stat ...
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Jeff Orlowski
Jeff Orlowski-Yang is an American filmmaker. He is best known for both directing and producing the Emmy Award-winning documentary ''Chasing Ice'' (2012) and ''Chasing Coral'' (2017) and for directing '' The Social Dilemma'' about the damaging soci ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Editing - ''
How to Survive a Plague
''How to Survive a Plague'' is a 2012 American documentary film about the early years of the AIDS epidemic, and the efforts of activist groups ACT UP and TAG. It was directed by David France, a journalist who covered AIDS from its beginnings. ...
Searching for Sugar Man
''Searching for Sugar Man'' is a 2012 documentary film about a South African cultural phenomenon, written and directed by Malik Bendjelloul, which details the efforts in the late 1990s of two Cape Town fans, Stephen "Sugar" Segerman and Craig B ...
Detropia
''Detropia'' is a 2012 American documentary film, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, about the city of Detroit, Michigan. It focuses on the decline of the economy of Detroit due to long-term changes in the automobile industry, and the effec ...
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* Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film - ''Only The Young'' -
Jason Tippet
Jason ( ; ) was an ancient Greek mythological hero and leader of the Argonauts, whose quest for the Golden Fleece featured in Greek literature. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcos. He was married to the sorceress Medea. He w ...
Bully
Bullying is the use of force, coercion, hurtful teasing or threat, to abuse, aggressively wikt:domination, dominate or intimidate. The behavior is often repeated and habitual. One essential prerequisite is the perception (by the bully or by ot ...
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Lee Hirsch
Lee Hirsch (born 1972) is an American documentary filmmaker. Hirsch is a graduate of The Putney School in Vermont and Hampshire College, in Amherst, Massachusetts. He wrote and directed the documentary '' Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Har ...
Jem Cohen
Jem Alan Cohen (born 1962) is an Afghan-born American filmmaker based in New York City. Cohen is especially known for his observational portraits of urban landscapes, blending of media formats ( sixteen-millimetre, Super 8, videotape) and collab ...
The War Room
''The War Room'' is a 1993 American documentary film about Bill Clinton's campaign for President of the United States during the 1992 United States presidential election. Directed by Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker, the film was released on D ...
D.A. Pennebaker
Donn Alan Pennebaker (; July 15, 1925 – August 1, 2019) was an American documentary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of direct cinema. Performing arts and politics were his primary subjects. In 2013, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc ...
Winners in 2014
* Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking - '' The Act of Killing'' - Dir.
Joshua Oppenheimer
Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer (born September 23, 1974) is an American-British film director based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is known for his Oscar-nominated films ''The Act of Killing'' (2012) and ''The Look of Silence'' (2014), Oppenheimer was ...
; Prod.
Signe Byrge Sørensen
Signe Byrge Sørensen (; born 1970) is a Danish film producer. She is the head of and co-founder of the film production company Final Cut for Real in Copenhagen, Denmark. Sørensen and film director Joshua Oppenheimer were nominated for an Acad ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Direction - '' Stories We Tell'' -
Sarah Polley
Sarah Ellen Polley (born January 8, 1979) is a Canadian actress,Howell, Peter (September 24, 1999)"Nobody's Starlet: Toronto's Sarah Polley is Only 20 but already a veteran actor so secure in her craft she can thumb her nose at Hollywood" ''Tor ...
Signe Byrge Sørensen
Signe Byrge Sørensen (; born 1970) is a Danish film producer. She is the head of and co-founder of the film production company Final Cut for Real in Copenhagen, Denmark. Sørensen and film director Joshua Oppenheimer were nominated for an Acad ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography - ''
Leviathan
Leviathan (; he, לִוְיָתָן, ) is a sea serpent noted in theology and mythology. It is referenced in several books of the Hebrew Bible, including Psalms, the Book of Job, the Book of Isaiah, the Book of Amos, and, according to some ...
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Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Lucien Giles Castaing-Taylor (born 10 January 1966, Liverpool, United Kingdom) is a British anthropologist and artist who works in film, video, and photography.
Biography
Castaing-Taylor received his B.A. at Cambridge University and his PhD at t ...
and Véréna Paravel
* Outstanding Achievement in Editing - ''
Let the Fire Burn
''Let the Fire Burn'' is a 2013 documentary film about the events leading up to and surrounding a 1985 stand-off between the black liberation group MOVE (Philadelphia organization), MOVE and the Philadelphia Police Department. The film is directe ...
'' - Nels Bangerter
* Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation - ''
Cutie and the Boxer
''Cutie and the Boxer'' is a 2013 American documentary film produced, shot, and directed by Zachary Heinzerling. The film focuses on the chaotic 40-year marriage of two artists, Noriko Shinohara and her husband the boxing painter Ushio, featu ...
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Noriko Shinohara
Noriko Shinohara (born 1953 in Takaoka, Japan) is a Japanese-American multi-disciplinary fine artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She is known for her semi-autobiographical drawing and printmaking series "Cutie & Bullie". She has had several int ...
and Art Jail
* Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score - ''
Cutie and the Boxer
''Cutie and the Boxer'' is a 2013 American documentary film produced, shot, and directed by Zachary Heinzerling. The film focuses on the chaotic 40-year marriage of two artists, Noriko Shinohara and her husband the boxing painter Ushio, featu ...
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Yasuaki Shimizu
(born 9 August 1954) is a Japanese composer, saxophonist and producer. He is known for his interpretations of the music of J.S. Bach, in particular the " Cello Suites 1-6" re-arranged for and performed on tenor saxophone.
Since 1981 he has comp ...
* Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film - ''
Cutie and the Boxer
''Cutie and the Boxer'' is a 2013 American documentary film produced, shot, and directed by Zachary Heinzerling. The film focuses on the chaotic 40-year marriage of two artists, Noriko Shinohara and her husband the boxing painter Ushio, featu ...
Dave Grohl
David Eric Grohl (born January 14, 1969) is an American musician. He is the founder of the rock band Foo Fighters, in which he is the lead singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter. Prior to forming Foo Fighters, he was the drummer of gru ...
Carlos Reygadas
Carlos Reygadas Castillo (; born October 10, 1971) is a Mexicans, Mexican filmmaker. Influenced by existentialist art and philosophy, Reygadas' movies feature spiritual journeys into the inner worlds of his main characters, through which themes ...
Harlan County, USA
''Harlan County, USA'' is a 1976 American documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike", a 1973 effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan C ...
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Barbara Kopple
Barbara Kopple (born July 30, 1946) is an American film director known primarily for her documentary work.
She has won two Academy Awards, the first in 1977 for ''Harlan County, USA'', about a Kentucky miners' strike, /sup> and the second in ...
* Hell Yeah Prize - ''
Gasland
''Gasland'' is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Josh Fox. It focuses on communities in the United States where natural gas drilling activity was a concern and, specifically, on hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), a method ...
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Josh Fox
Josh Fox is an American film director, playwright and environmental activist, best known for his Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning 2010 documentary, ''Gasland''. He is one of the most prominent public opponents of hydraulic fracturing and horizon ...
Winners in 2015
* Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking - ''
Citizenfour
''Citizenfour'' is a 2014 documentary film directed by Laura Poitras, concerning Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal. The film had its US premiere on October 10, 2014, at the New York Film Festival and its UK premiere on October 17, 2014, ...
'' - Dir.
Laura Poitras
Laura Poitras (; born February 2, 1964) is an American director and producer of documentary films.
Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for ''Citizenfour'', about Edwa ...
; Prod.
Laura Poitras
Laura Poitras (; born February 2, 1964) is an American director and producer of documentary films.
Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for ''Citizenfour'', about Edwa ...
,
Mathilde Bonnefoy
Mathilde Bonnefoy (born 11 March 1972) is a French film editor and director who was nominated for an ACE Eddie Award for the editing of the film '' Run Lola Run'' (1998) and who won the award for editing the documentary ''Citizenfour'' (2014). S ...
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Dirk Wilutzky
Dirk Wilutzky (born 1965 in Herleshausen, West Germany) is a German film producer and director. He won the shared Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the 2014 documentary '' Citizenfour'' at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015. He is m ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Direction - ''
Citizenfour
''Citizenfour'' is a 2014 documentary film directed by Laura Poitras, concerning Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal. The film had its US premiere on October 10, 2014, at the New York Film Festival and its UK premiere on October 17, 2014, ...
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Laura Poitras
Laura Poitras (; born February 2, 1964) is an American director and producer of documentary films.
Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for ''Citizenfour'', about Edwa ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Production - ''
Citizenfour
''Citizenfour'' is a 2014 documentary film directed by Laura Poitras, concerning Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal. The film had its US premiere on October 10, 2014, at the New York Film Festival and its UK premiere on October 17, 2014, ...
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Laura Poitras
Laura Poitras (; born February 2, 1964) is an American director and producer of documentary films.
Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for ''Citizenfour'', about Edwa ...
,
Mathilde Bonnefoy
Mathilde Bonnefoy (born 11 March 1972) is a French film editor and director who was nominated for an ACE Eddie Award for the editing of the film '' Run Lola Run'' (1998) and who won the award for editing the documentary ''Citizenfour'' (2014). S ...
and
Dirk Wilutzky
Dirk Wilutzky (born 1965 in Herleshausen, West Germany) is a German film producer and director. He won the shared Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the 2014 documentary '' Citizenfour'' at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015. He is m ...
Orlando von Einsiedel
Orlando von EinsiedelPeople of Today 2017 / Lucy Hume (born in August 1980) is a British film director. He directs mostly documentary films that investigate global social issues, and has filmed in various places around the world, including Africa ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Editing - ''
Citizenfour
''Citizenfour'' is a 2014 documentary film directed by Laura Poitras, concerning Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal. The film had its US premiere on October 10, 2014, at the New York Film Festival and its UK premiere on October 17, 2014, ...
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Mathilde Bonnefoy
Mathilde Bonnefoy (born 11 March 1972) is a French film editor and director who was nominated for an ACE Eddie Award for the editing of the film '' Run Lola Run'' (1998) and who won the award for editing the documentary ''Citizenfour'' (2014). S ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation - ''
Jodorowsky's Dune
''Jodorowsky's Dune'' is a 2013 American-French documentary film directed by Frank Pavich. The film explores cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's unsuccessful attempt to adapt and film Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction novel ''Dune'' in ...
Particle Fever
''Particle Fever'' is a 2013 American documentary film tracking the first round of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland. The film follows the experimental physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Rese ...
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MK12
MK12 is a graphic design company best known for creating the title sequences for the films of Marc Forster, such as ''Stranger than Fiction (2006 film), Stranger than Fiction'' and ''Quantum of Solace'', as well as the interstitial videos in ''Th ...
Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian singer, songwriter, poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor. Known for his baritone voice and for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Ca ...
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Warren Ellis
Warren Girard Ellis (born 16 February 1968) is a British comic book writer, novelist, and screenwriter. He is best known as the co-creator of several original comics series, including ''Transmetropolitan'' (1997–2002), ''Global Frequency'' ( ...
1971 *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6).
The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.
Events
Ja ...
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Johanna Hamilton
Johanna is a feminine name, a variant form of Joanna that originated in Latin in the Middle Ages, including an -h- by analogy with the Latin masculine name Johannes. The original Greek form ''Iōanna'' lacks a medial /h/ because in Greek Spiritus ...
Richard Linklater
Richard Stuart Linklater (; born July 30, 1960) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known for films that revolve mainly around suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time. His films include the comedies '' ...
Alan Hicks
Alan may refer to:
People
*Alan (surname), an English and Turkish surname
*Alan (given name), an English given name
**List of people with given name Alan
''Following are people commonly referred to solely by "Alan" or by a homonymous name.''
* A ...
Nanette Burstein
Nanette Burstein (born May 23, 1970) is an American film and television director. Burstein has produced, directed, and co-directed several documentaries including the Academy Award nominated and Sundance Special Jury Prize winning film ''On the R ...
Jennie Livingston
Jennie may refer to:
* Jennie (singer), South Korean singer of girl group Blackpink
* Jennie, a female given name, variant spelling of Jenny
* ''Jennie'' (musical), 1963 Broadway production
* ''Jennie'' (novel), 1994 science fiction thriller by ...
Winners in 2016
* Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking - ''
The Look of Silence
''The Look of Silence'' (, "Silence") is a 2014 internationally co-produced documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer about the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66. The film is a companion piece to his 2012 documentary ''The Act of Kill ...
'' - Dir.
Joshua Oppenheimer
Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer (born September 23, 1974) is an American-British film director based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is known for his Oscar-nominated films ''The Act of Killing'' (2012) and ''The Look of Silence'' (2014), Oppenheimer was ...
; Prod.
Signe Byrge Sørensen
Signe Byrge Sørensen (; born 1970) is a Danish film producer. She is the head of and co-founder of the film production company Final Cut for Real in Copenhagen, Denmark. Sørensen and film director Joshua Oppenheimer were nominated for an Acad ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Direction - ''
The Look of Silence
''The Look of Silence'' (, "Silence") is a 2014 internationally co-produced documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer about the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66. The film is a companion piece to his 2012 documentary ''The Act of Kill ...
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Joshua Oppenheimer
Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer (born September 23, 1974) is an American-British film director based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is known for his Oscar-nominated films ''The Act of Killing'' (2012) and ''The Look of Silence'' (2014), Oppenheimer was ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Production - ''
The Look of Silence
''The Look of Silence'' (, "Silence") is a 2014 internationally co-produced documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer about the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66. The film is a companion piece to his 2012 documentary ''The Act of Kill ...
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Signe Byrge Sørensen
Signe Byrge Sørensen (; born 1970) is a Danish film producer. She is the head of and co-founder of the film production company Final Cut for Real in Copenhagen, Denmark. Sørensen and film director Joshua Oppenheimer were nominated for an Acad ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
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Cartel Land
''Cartel Land'' is a 2015 American documentary film directed by Matthew Heineman about the Mexican Drug War, especially vigilante groups fighting Mexican drug cartels. The film focuses on Tim "Nailer" Foley, the leader of Arizona Border Recon ...
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Matthew Heineman
Matthew Heineman is an American filmmaker. The Sundance Film Festival called Heineman "one of the most talented and exciting documentary filmmakers working today", while Anne Thompson of ''Indiewire'' wrote that Heineman is a "respected and gif ...
Meru
Meru may refer to:
Geography Kenya
* Meru, Kenya, a city in Meru County, Kenya
** Meru County, created by the merger of
*** Meru Central District
*** Meru North District
*** Meru South District
* Meru National Park, a Kenyan wildlife park
T ...
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Jimmy Chin
Jimmy Chin (born ) is an American professional mountain athlete, photographer, film director, and author.
Chin has been a professional climber and skier on The North Face Athlete team for over 20 years. In 2006, Chin achieved the first succes ...
and
Renan Ozturk
Renan is a name present in Portuguese language, Portuguese, Spanish language, Spanish, French language, French, Turkish language, Turkish and Breton language, Breton as an alternative form of Ronan. It may refer to:
People Arts
* Ary Renan (1857 ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Editing - ''
Amy
Amy is a female given name, sometimes short for Amanda, Amelia, Amélie, or Amita. In French, the name is spelled ''"Aimée"''.
People A–E
* Amy Acker (born 1976), American actress
* Amy Vera Ackman, also known as Mother Giovanni (1886– ...
Hisko Hulsing
Hisko Hulsing (born July 7, 1971 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch director, animator, composer, painter and storyboard artist.
His animated films won many awards, including the Grand Prize for ''Junkyard'' at the Ottawa International Animation Film Fest ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score - '' The Heart of a Dog'' -
Laurie Anderson
Laurel Philips Anderson (born June 5, 1947), known as Laurie Anderson, is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician, and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and ...
* Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film - '' The Wolfpack'' -
Crystal Moselle
Sierra Ditson "Crystal" Moselle (born August 1, 1980) is an American filmmaker. Her debut film was '' The Wolfpack'' (2015), a documentary on the Angulo brothers. She has also made '' That One Day'' (2016) and ''Skate Kitchen'' (2018).
Early lif ...
Taxi
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Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panâhi ( fa, جعفر پناهی, ; born 11 July 1960) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film editor, commonly associated with the Iranian New Wave film movement. After several years of making short films and working as an ass ...
* Audience Choice - ''
Meru
Meru may refer to:
Geography Kenya
* Meru, Kenya, a city in Meru County, Kenya
** Meru County, created by the merger of
*** Meru Central District
*** Meru North District
*** Meru South District
* Meru National Park, a Kenyan wildlife park
T ...
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Jimmy Chin
Jimmy Chin (born ) is an American professional mountain athlete, photographer, film director, and author.
Chin has been a professional climber and skier on The North Face Athlete team for over 20 years. In 2006, Chin achieved the first succes ...
and Chai Vasarhelyi
* Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking
**'' Buffalo Juggalos'' - Scott Cummings
**'' Hotel 22'' - Elizabeth Lo
* Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Films Made for Television - ''
Private Violence
''Private Violence'' is a 2014 American documentary film directed and produced by Cynthia Hill. The film focuses on the issue of domestic violence, as told through two survivors. Ultimately, the film centers on dispelling the logic of the commonly ...
American Movie
''American Movie'' is a 1999 American documentary film directed by Chris Smith, produced by Smith and Sarah Price, and edited by Jun Diaz and Barry Poltermann. The film chronicles the making of ''Coven'', an independent short horror film dire ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking - ''
Cameraperson
''Cameraperson'' is a 2016 autobiographical collage documentary film. The film is an account by director Kirsten Johnson about her life and career as a cinematographer. It relies on footage shot by Johnson across the years in numerous differe ...
'' - Dir.
Kirsten Johnson
Kirsten Johnson (born 1965) is an American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. She is mostly known for her camera work on several well-known feature-length documentaries such as '' Citizenfour'' and '' The Oath''. In 2016, she released ...
; Prod.
Kirsten Johnson
Kirsten Johnson (born 1965) is an American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. She is mostly known for her camera work on several well-known feature-length documentaries such as '' Citizenfour'' and '' The Oath''. In 2016, she released ...
and
Marilyn Ness
Marilyn Ness is a documentary film producer and director based in New York City She is known for social justice documentaries, including '' Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale'' (2010), ''Cameraperson'' (2016), and most notably, '' Charm City'' (2018). H ...
Ezra Edelman
Ezra Benjamin Edelman (born August 6, 1974) is an American documentary producer and director. He won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming for directing ' ...
Ezra Edelman
Ezra Benjamin Edelman (born August 6, 1974) is an American documentary producer and director. He won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming for directing ' ...
and Caroline Waterlow
* Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography - ''
Cameraperson
''Cameraperson'' is a 2016 autobiographical collage documentary film. The film is an account by director Kirsten Johnson about her life and career as a cinematographer. It relies on footage shot by Johnson across the years in numerous differe ...
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Kirsten Johnson
Kirsten Johnson (born 1965) is an American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. She is mostly known for her camera work on several well-known feature-length documentaries such as '' Citizenfour'' and '' The Oath''. In 2016, she released ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Editing - ''
Cameraperson
''Cameraperson'' is a 2016 autobiographical collage documentary film. The film is an account by director Kirsten Johnson about her life and career as a cinematographer. It relies on footage shot by Johnson across the years in numerous differe ...
'' - Nels Bangerter
* Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation - ''
Tower
A tower is a tall Nonbuilding structure, structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from guyed mast, masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting ...
David Byrne
David Byrne (; born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, writer, music theorist, visual artist and filmmaker. He was a founding member and the principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of ...
Hooligan Sparrow
''Hooligan Sparrow'' is a 2016 documentary film about Ye Haiyan and other Chinese activists written and produced by Nanfu Wang
Nanfu Wang (born 1985) is a Chinese-born American filmmaker. Her debut film '' Hooligan Sparrow'' premiered at the ...
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Nanfu Wang
Nanfu Wang (born 1985) is a Chinese-born American filmmaker. Her debut film '' Hooligan Sparrow'' premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2017. Her second film, ''I A ...
Clay Tweel
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4).
Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay part ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking - ''La Laguna'' - Aaron Schock
* Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Films Made for Television - ''
Making a Murderer
''Making a Murderer'' is an American true crime documentary television series written and directed by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos. The show tells the story of Steven Avery, a man from Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, who served 18 years in pris ...
'' - Dir.
Laura Ricciardi
Laura Ricciardi (1969/1970) is an American filmmaker, producer and editor. Ricciardi is known for the documentary television series ''Making a Murderer,'' which she co-directed with filmmaker Moira Demos, in a process that took 10 years to comple ...
and
Moira Demos
Moira Demos is an Emmy Award winning American filmmaker, producer and editor. Demos rose to prominence with her documentary ''Making a Murderer'' which she co-directed with filmmaker Laura Ricciardi, in a process that took 10 years to complet ...
; Prod.
Laura Ricciardi
Laura Ricciardi (1969/1970) is an American filmmaker, producer and editor. Ricciardi is known for the documentary television series ''Making a Murderer,'' which she co-directed with filmmaker Moira Demos, in a process that took 10 years to comple ...
and
Moira Demos
Moira Demos is an Emmy Award winning American filmmaker, producer and editor. Demos rose to prominence with her documentary ''Making a Murderer'' which she co-directed with filmmaker Laura Ricciardi, in a process that took 10 years to complet ...
* 2017 Legacy Award - ''
The Times of Harvey Milk
''The Times of Harvey Milk'' is a 1984 American documentary film that premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, and then on November 1, 1984, at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. The film was directed by Rob Epstein, ...
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Rob Epstein
Robert P. Epstein (born April 6, 1955), is an American director, producer, writer, and editor. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature, for the films ''The Times of Harvey Milk'' and '' Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt ...
Winners in 2018
* Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking - '' Strong Island'' - Dir.
Yance Ford
Yance Ford () is an African-American transgender producer and director.
Life and career
Ford graduated from Hamilton College in 1994.
Beginning in 2002 he worked as a series producer at PBS for ten years.
In 2011 he was named one of ''Filmmaker ...
Yance Ford
Yance Ford () is an African-American transgender producer and director.
Life and career
Ford graduated from Hamilton College in 1994.
Beginning in 2002 he worked as a series producer at PBS for ten years.
In 2011 he was named one of ''Filmmaker ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Direction - '' Strong Island'' -
Yance Ford
Yance Ford () is an African-American transgender producer and director.
Life and career
Ford graduated from Hamilton College in 1994.
Beginning in 2002 he worked as a series producer at PBS for ten years.
In 2011 he was named one of ''Filmmaker ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Production - ''
Last Men in Aleppo
''Last Men in Aleppo'' (in Arabic آخر الرجال في حلب) is a 2017 documentary film about the Syrian Civil War. Written and directed by Feras Fayyad, produced by Kareem Abeed and Søren Steen Jespersen, it documents the life in Aleppo ...
Søren Steen Jespersen
Søren Steen Jespersen is a Danish director, producer and writer best known for producing 2017 documentary ''Last Men in Aleppo'', for which he was co-nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Jespersen's team was unable to the ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography - ''
Chasing Coral
''Chasing Coral'' is a 2017 American documentary film about a team of divers, scientists and photographers around the world who document the disappearance of coral reefs. ''Chasing Coral'' was produced by Exposure Labs and directed by Jeff Orlows ...
Jeff Orlowski
Jeff Orlowski-Yang is an American filmmaker. He is best known for both directing and producing the Emmy Award-winning documentary ''Chasing Ice'' (2012) and ''Chasing Coral'' (2017) and for directing '' The Social Dilemma'' about the damaging soci ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Editing - ''
Quest
A quest is a journey toward a specific mission or a goal. The word serves as a plot device in mythology and fiction: a difficult journey towards a goal, often symbolic or allegorical. Tales of quests figure prominently in the folklore of ever ...
'' - Lindsay Utz
* Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation - ''
Long Strange Trip
''Long Strange Trip'' is a 2017 American documentary film about the rock band the Grateful Dead. It premiered on January 23, 2017, at the Sundance Film Festival. It had a one-night only nationwide screening on May 25, 2017, and a week-long limite ...
'' - Stefan Nadelman
* Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score - ''
Jane
Jane may refer to:
* Jane (given name), a feminine given name
* Jane (surname), related to the given name
Film and television
* ''Jane'' (1915 film), a silent comedy film directed by Frank Lloyd
* ''Jane'' (2016 film), a South Korean drama fil ...
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Philip Glass
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimal music, minimalism, being built up fr ...
* Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film - '' Strong Island''-
Yance Ford
Yance Ford () is an African-American transgender producer and director.
Life and career
Ford graduated from Hamilton College in 1994.
Beginning in 2002 he worked as a series producer at PBS for ten years.
In 2011 he was named one of ''Filmmaker ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Broadcast Nonfiction Filmmaking - ''
The Keepers
''The Keepers'' is a seven-episode American documentary web series that explores the unsolved murder of nun Catherine Cesnik in 1969. Cesnik taught English and drama at Baltimore's all-girls Archbishop Keough High School, and her former student ...
'' - Dir.
Ryan White
Ryan Wayne White (December 6, 1971 – April 8, 1990) was an American teenager from Kokomo, Indiana, who became a national poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States after his school barred him from attending classes following a diagn ...
Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle
Lot or LOT or The Lot or ''similar'' may refer to:
Common meanings Areas
*Land lot, an area of land
*Parking lot, for automobiles
*Backlot, in movie production
Sets of items
*Lot number, in batch production
*Lot, a set of goods for sale together ...
'' - Gustavo Salmerón
* Heterodox Award - ''
The Florida Project
''The Florida Project'' is a 2017 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Sean Baker and written by Baker and Chris Bergoch. It stars Willem Dafoe, Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Valeria Cotto, Christopher Rivera, and Caleb Landry Jon ...
Jane
Jane may refer to:
* Jane (given name), a feminine given name
* Jane (surname), related to the given name
Film and television
* ''Jane'' (1915 film), a silent comedy film directed by Frank Lloyd
* ''Jane'' (2016 film), a South Korean drama fil ...
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Brett Morgen
Brett D. Morgen (born October 11, 1968) is an American documentary filmmaker. His directorial credits include ''The Kid Stays in the Picture'' (2002), ''Crossfire Hurricane'' (2012), '' Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck'' (2015), '' Jane'' (2017), and ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking - ''
The Rabbit Hunt
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the ...
When We Were Kings
''When We Were Kings'' is a 1996 American documentary film directed by Leon Gast about the "Rumble in the Jungle" heavyweight championship match that was held on October 30, 1974, in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) between world ...
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Leon Gast
Leon Jacques Gast (March 30, 1936 – March 8, 2021) was an American documentary film director, producer, cinematographer, and editor. His documentary, ''When We Were Kings'' depicts the iconic heavyweight boxing match: The Rumble in the Jungle b ...
* Hell Yeah Prize - ''
Icarus
In Greek mythology, Icarus (; grc, Ἴκαρος, Íkaros, ) was the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the architect of the labyrinth of Crete. After Theseus, king of Athens and enemy of Minos, escaped from the labyrinth, King Minos suspe ...
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Bryan Fogel
Bryan Fogel is an American film director, producer, author, playwright, speaker and human rights activist, best known for the 2017 documentary ''Icarus,'' which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 90th Academy Awards in 2018 ...
Winners in 2019
* Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking - ''
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
''Hale County This Morning, This Evening'' is a 2018 American documentary film about the lives of black people in Hale County, Alabama. It is directed by RaMell Ross and produced by RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes, Su Kim, and is Ross's first nonfict ...
'' - Dir.
RaMell Ross
''Hale County This Morning, This Evening'' is a 2018 American documentary film about the lives of black people in Hale County, Alabama. It is directed by RaMell Ross and produced by RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes, Su Kim, and is Ross's first nonfictio ...
RaMell Ross
''Hale County This Morning, This Evening'' is a 2018 American documentary film about the lives of black people in Hale County, Alabama. It is directed by RaMell Ross and produced by RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes, Su Kim, and is Ross's first nonfictio ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Direction - ''
Minding the Gap
''Minding the Gap'' is a 2018 documentary film directed by Bing Liu. It was produced by Liu and Diane Moy Quon through Kartemquin Films. It chronicles the lives and friendships of three young men growing up in Rockford, Illinois, united by th ...
'' - Bing Liu
* Outstanding Achievement in Production - ''
Free Solo
Free solo climbing, or free soloing, is a form of technical ice or rock climbing where the climbers (or ''free soloists'') climb alone without ropes, harnesses or other protective equipment, forcing them to rely entirely on their own individual ...
'' -
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (; born ) is an American documentary filmmaker. She was the director, along with her husband, Jimmy Chin, for the film ''Free Solo'', which won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film profiled Alex ...
,
Jimmy Chin
Jimmy Chin (born ) is an American professional mountain athlete, photographer, film director, and author.
Chin has been a professional climber and skier on The North Face Athlete team for over 20 years. In 2006, Chin achieved the first succes ...
Shannon Dill
Free solo climbing, or free soloing, is a form of technical ice or rock climbing where the climbers (or ''free soloists'') climb alone without ropes, harnesses or other protective equipment, forcing them to rely entirely on their own individua ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography - ''
Free Solo
Free solo climbing, or free soloing, is a form of technical ice or rock climbing where the climbers (or ''free soloists'') climb alone without ropes, harnesses or other protective equipment, forcing them to rely entirely on their own individual ...
'' -
Jimmy Chin
Jimmy Chin (born ) is an American professional mountain athlete, photographer, film director, and author.
Chin has been a professional climber and skier on The North Face Athlete team for over 20 years. In 2006, Chin achieved the first succes ...
,
Clair Popkin
Clair or Claire may refer to:
*Claire (given name), a list of people with the name Claire
* Clair (surname)
Places
Canada
* Clair, New Brunswick, a former village, now part of Haut-Madawaska
* Clair Parish, New Brunswick
* Pointe-Claire, Q ...
and Mikey Schaeffer
* Outstanding Achievement in Editing - ''
Minding the Gap
''Minding the Gap'' is a 2018 documentary film directed by Bing Liu. It was produced by Liu and Diane Moy Quon through Kartemquin Films. It chronicles the lives and friendships of three young men growing up in Rockford, Illinois, united by th ...
'' - Bing Liu and Joshua Altman
* Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation - ''
Shirkers
''Shirkers'' is a 2018 British-American documentary film by Singapore-born filmmaker Sandi Tan about the making of an independent thriller featuring a teenage assassin set in Singapore. It premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in January ...
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Lucas Celler
Lucas Celler is an American documentary film editor, director, photographer and motion designer. He is best known for his work on ''Shirkers'' and ''Claydream''.
Life and career
Lucas went to New Trier High School and Depaul University's School ...
and
Sandi Tan
Sandi Tan (born 1972 in Singapore) is a film critic, writer, and filmmaker. After attending the University of Kent, she wrote as the film critic for ''The Straits Times'' from 1995 to 1997 before attending Columbia University's film school and ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score - ''
Shirkers
''Shirkers'' is a 2018 British-American documentary film by Singapore-born filmmaker Sandi Tan about the making of an independent thriller featuring a teenage assassin set in Singapore. It premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in January ...
'' - Ishai Adar
* Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film - ''
Minding the Gap
''Minding the Gap'' is a 2018 documentary film directed by Bing Liu. It was produced by Liu and Diane Moy Quon through Kartemquin Films. It chronicles the lives and friendships of three young men growing up in Rockford, Illinois, united by th ...
'' - Bing Liu
* Outstanding Achievement in a Nonfiction Film for Broadcast - '' Baltimore Rising'' -
Sonja Sohn
Sonja Denise Plack (' Williams; born May 9, 1964), known professionally as Sonja Sohn, is an American actress, activist and filmmaker, best known for portraying Baltimore detective Kima Greggs in the HBO drama ''The Wire'' (2002–2008). She is ...
Free Solo
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Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (; born ) is an American documentary filmmaker. She was the director, along with her husband, Jimmy Chin, for the film ''Free Solo'', which won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film profiled Alex ...
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Jimmy Chin
Jimmy Chin (born ) is an American professional mountain athlete, photographer, film director, and author.
Chin has been a professional climber and skier on The North Face Athlete team for over 20 years. In 2006, Chin achieved the first succes ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking - ''
My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes
''My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes'' is a 2018 Canadian short documentary film, directed by Charlie Tyrell.
Summary
Blending stop-motion animation, family interviews via phone and live footage, the film depicts Tyrell's attempt to make sense of his com ...
Eyes on the Prize
''Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement'' is an American television series and 14-part documentary about the 20th-century civil rights movement in the United States. The documentary originally aired on the PBS network, and it also ...
'' - Harry Hampton, Orlando Bagwell, Sheila Curran Bernard,
Callie Crossley
Callie Crossley is an American broadcast journalist and radio presenter in the Boston area.
In March 2013 she began hosting a new radio program entitled ''Under the Radar with Callie Crossley'' and continues to contribute to WGBH Radio's "Bosto ...
, James A. DeVinney, Madison D. Lacy, Thomas Ott, Samuel D. Pollard, Terry Kay Rockefeller, Jacqueline Shearer, Paul Stekler, Judith Vecchione
Winners in 2020
* Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking - ''
American Factory
''American Factory'' () is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, about Chinese company Fuyao's factory in Moraine, a city near Dayton, Ohio, that occupies Moraine Assembly, a shuttered General Motors pl ...
Julia Reichert
Julia Bell Reichert (June 16, 1946 – December 1, 2022) was an American Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, activist, and feminist. She was a co-founder of New Day Films. Reichert's filmmaking career spanned over 50 years as a direct ...
Julia Reichert
Julia Bell Reichert (June 16, 1946 – December 1, 2022) was an American Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, activist, and feminist. She was a co-founder of New Day Films. Reichert's filmmaking career spanned over 50 years as a direct ...
, Jeff Reichert and Julie Parker Benello
* Outstanding Achievement in Direction - ''
American Factory
''American Factory'' () is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, about Chinese company Fuyao's factory in Moraine, a city near Dayton, Ohio, that occupies Moraine Assembly, a shuttered General Motors pl ...
Julia Reichert
Julia Bell Reichert (June 16, 1946 – December 1, 2022) was an American Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, activist, and feminist. She was a co-founder of New Day Films. Reichert's filmmaking career spanned over 50 years as a direct ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Production
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For Sama
''For Sama'' () is a 2019 documentary film produced and narrated by Waad Al-Kateab, and directed by Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts. The film focuses on Waad Al-Kateab's journey as a journalist and rebel in the Syrian uprising. Her husband is ...
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Waad al-Kateab
Waad Al-Kateab ( ar, وعد الخطيب; born ) is the pseudonym of a Syrian journalist, filmmaker, and activist. Her documentary, ''For Sama'' (2019), was nominated for four BAFTAs at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards, winning for Best Docu ...
Honeyland
''Honeyland'' ( mk, Медена земја, transliterated: ''Medena zemja'') is a 2019 Macedonian documentary film that was directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov. It portrays the life of Hatidže Muratova, a loner beekeeper of ...
Apollo 11
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Todd Douglas Miller
Todd Douglas Miller is an American filmmaker known for directing the award-winning films ''Apollo 11 (2019 film), Apollo 11 and'' ''Dinosaur 13''.
Early life and career
Miller grew up in Columbus, Ohio. In the 1990s, Miller attended the Motion ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation - ''
The Great Hack
''The Great Hack'' is a 2019 documentary film about the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal, produced and directed by Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, both previous documentary Academy Award nominees ( ''The Square'', ''Control Room'', ' ...
Ash Thorp
Ashley Livingston Thorp (born March 1983) is an illustrator, graphic designer, and creative director for feature films, commercial marketing, and print.
Career
As a freelance graphic designer, Thorp created UI (user interface) graphics and des ...
* Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score - ''
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module ''Eagle'' on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, an ...
'' - Matt Morton
* Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film - ''
The Disappearance of My Mother
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'' - Beniamino Barrese
* Outstanding Achievement in a Nonfiction Film for Broadcast - ''
Leaving Neverland
''Leaving Neverland'' is a 2019 documentary film directed and produced by the British filmmaker Dan Reed. It focuses on two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who allege they were sexually abused as children by the American singer Michael Ja ...
'' - Dan Reed
* Outstanding Achievement in a Nonfiction Series for Broadcast - ''Tricky Dick'' - Mary Robertson
* Outstanding Achievement in Broadcast Cinematography - ''
Homecoming
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'' - Mark Ritchie, Julian Klincewicz, Dikayl Rimmasch and Irie Calkins
* Outstanding Achievement in Broadcast Editing - '' Apollo: Missions to the Moon'' - David Tillman
* Spotlight Award - '' Present Award'' - Shengze Zhu
* Heterodox Award - ''
The Souvenir
''The Souvenir'' is a 2019 drama film written and directed by Joanna Hogg. A semi-autobiographical account of Hogg's experiences at film school, it stars Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke and Tilda Swinton. ''The Souvenir'' had its world premie ...
Ghosts of Sugar Land
''Ghosts of Sugar Land'' is a 2019 documentary film directed by Bassam Tariq, written by Thomas Niles and Bassam Tariq and starring Jennifer Julian and Kc Okoro. The premise revolves around a young American Muslim man, Mark, who converted to Isla ...
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Bassam Tariq
Bassam Tariq (born October 22, 1986) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter born in Karachi, Pakistan. He co-directed and produced the Sundance-funded documentary ''These Birds Walk'' (2013) with Omar Mullick, and he was named i ...
* 2020 Legacy Award - ''
Koyaanisqatsi
''Koyaanisqatsi'' (), also known as ''Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance'', is a 1982 American experimental film, experimental non-narrative film directed and produced by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by R ...
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Godfrey Reggio
Godfrey Reggio (born March 29, 1940) is an American director of experimental documentary films.
Life
Reggio was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to an old and distinguished Louisiana family descended from Francesco M. de Reggio, an Italian noblem ...
indiewire.com
IndieWire (sometimes stylized as indieWIRE or Indiewire) is a film industry and review website that was established in 1996. The site's focus was predominantly independent film, although its coverage has grown to "to include all aspects of Holly ...
imdb.com
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, p ...
indiewire.com
IndieWire (sometimes stylized as indieWIRE or Indiewire) is a film industry and review website that was established in 1996. The site's focus was predominantly independent film, although its coverage has grown to "to include all aspects of Holly ...
indiewire.com
IndieWire (sometimes stylized as indieWIRE or Indiewire) is a film industry and review website that was established in 1996. The site's focus was predominantly independent film, although its coverage has grown to "to include all aspects of Holly ...
pbs.org
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcasting, public broadcaster and Non-commercial activity, non-commercial, Terrestrial television, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly fu ...
About.com
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