Cinema Eye Honors Fete 2012 Documentaries With 6th Annual Nominees
Documentary nominees take the deserved spotlight with 2012 non-fiction nominations unveiled by organizers of the Cinema Eye Honors Friday at AFI Fest with The Imposter and Searching for Sugar Man each receiving five nominations.
Six films will compete for Cinema Eye’s Outstanding Achievement in Non-fiction Feature Filmmaking prize. Included are Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi’s 5 Broken Cameras, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Detropia, Bart Layton’s The Imposter, Matthew Akers’ Marina Abramović The Artist is Present, Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims’ Only the Young and Malik Bendjelloul’s Searching for Sugar Man.
The 6th Annual Cinema Eye Honors will take place January 9 as Cinema Eye at New York City’s Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens.
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
5 Broken Cameras, directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
Produced by Christine Camdessus, Serge Gordey, Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
Detropia, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
Produced by Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady and Craig Atkinson
The Imposter, directed by Bart Layton
Produced by Dimitri Doganis
Marina Abramović The Artist is Present, directed by Matthew Akers; Produced by Jeff Dupre and Maro Chermayeff
Only the Young, directed by Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims
Produced by Derek Waters
Searching for Sugar Man, directed by Malik Bendjelloul
Produced by Simon Chinn
Outstanding Achievement in Direction
Detropia, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
The Law in These Parts, Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
Only the Young, Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims
Planet of Snail, Seungjun Yi
Tchoupitoulas, Bill Ross and Turner Ross
¡Vivan las Antipodas!, Victor Kossakovsky
Outstanding Achievement in Production
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman and Adam Schlesinger
Big Boys Gone Bananas!*, Margarete Jangård
The Imposter, Dimitri Doganis
Searching for Sugar Man, Simon Chinn
¡Vivan las Antipodas!, Heino Deckert
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
Chasing Ice, Jeffrey Orlowski
The Imposter, Erik Alexander Wilson & Lynda Hall
Only the Young, Jason Tippet & Elizabeth Mims
Samsara, Ron Fricke
¡Vivan las Antipodas!, Victor Kossakovsky
Outstanding Achievement in Editing
5 Broken Cameras, Véronique Lagoarde-Ségot & Guy Davidi
Detropia, Enat Sidi
How to Survive a Plague, T. Woody Richman, Tyler H. Walk & Jonathan Oppenheim
Room 237, Rodney Ascher
Tchoupitoulas, Bill Ross
Audience Choice Prize
5 Broken Cameras, directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
Beauty is Embarrassing, directed by Neil Berkeley
Bully, directed by Lee Hirsch
How to Survive a Plague, directed by David France
The Imposter, directed by Bart Layton
Jiro Dreams of Sushi, directed by David Gelb
Kumaré, directed by Vikram Gandhi
Marina Abramović The Artist is Present, directed by Matthew Akers
Searching for Sugar Man, directed by Malik Bendjelloul
Trash Dance directed by Andrew Garrison
Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, directed by Alison Klayman
How to Survive a Plague, directed by David France
Marina Abramović The Artist is Present, directed by Matthew Akers
Only the Young, directed by Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims
Room 237, directed by Rodney Ascher
Searching for Sugar Man, directed by Malik Bendjelloul
The Waiting Room, directed by Peter Nicks
Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score
Detropia, Dial.81
The Imposter, Anna Nikitin
Into the Abyss, Mark De Gli Antoni
Room 237, Jonathan Snipes, William Hutson, The Caretaker (James Kirby)
¡Vivan las Antipodas!, Alexander Popov
Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design or Animation
Beauty is Embarrassing, Neil Berkeley, Anthony Maiuri
Herman’s House, Nicolas Brault, Tom Hillman
Indie Game: The Movie, James Swirsky
Room 237, Carlos Ramos
Searching for Sugar Man, Oskar Gullstrand, Arvid Steen
Urbanized, Brooklyn Digital Foundry/John Szot
Spotlight Award
Argentinian Lesson, directed by Wojciech Staroń
Bestiaire, directed by Denis Côté
Downeast, directed by David Redmon and Ashley Sabin
Meanwhile in Mamelodi, directed by Benjamin Kahlmeyer
Vol Special (Special Flight), directed by Fernand Melgar
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking
Cutting Loose, directed by Finlay Pretsell and Adrian McDowall
Family Nightmare, directed by Dustin Guy Defa
Good Bye Mandima (Kwa Heri Mandima) , directed by Robert-Jan Lacombe
Into the Middle of Nowhere, directed by Anna Francis Ewert
Paradise (Paraíso), directed by Nadav Kurtz
