Cinema Eye Honors Nominations Revealed

Bing Liu's Minding the Gap collected the most mentions as nominations for the Cinema Eye Honors were announced Thursday. The annual awards recognize excellence in nonfiction or documentary filmmaking across various disciplines such as directing, producing, cinematography and editing.

The nominees for feature film include Bisbee '17; Hale County This Morning, This Evening; Minding the Gap; Of Fathers and Sons; Three Identical Strangers and Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Gap, which follows three young men as they move into adulthood, scored seven nominations, while Bisbee '17, Hale County and Shirkers received five apiece and Won't You Be My Neighbor? racked up four.

Winners will be announced Jan. 10 at the annual Cinema Eye Honors Awards Ceremony at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. Steve James is set to host.

Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking

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WINNER Hale County This Morning, This Evening | Directed by RaMell Ross | Produced by Joslyn Barnes, Su Kim and RaMell Ross

Bisbee '17 | Directed by Robert Greene | Produced by Susan Bedusa, Bennett Elliot and Douglas Tirola

Minding the Gap | Directed by Bing Liu | Produced by Bing Liu and Diane Moy Quon

Of Fathers and Sons | Directed by Talal Derki | Produced by Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme, Tobias N. Siebert and Hans Robert Eisenhauer

Three Identical Strangers | Directed by Tim Wardle | Produced by Grace Hughes-Hallett and Becky Read

Won't You Be My Neighbor? | Directed by Morgan Neville | Produced by Caryn Capotosto, Nicholas Ma and Morgan Neville
Outstanding Achievement in Direction

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WINNER Bing Liu | Minding the Gap

Robert Greene | B?isbee '17

RaMell Ross | ?Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Talal Derki | O?f Fathers and Sons

Sandi Tan | Shirkers
Outstanding Achievement in Production

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WINNER Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill | ?Free Solo

Susan Bedusa, Bennett Elliot and Douglas Tirola | Bisbee '17

Stephen Maing, Ross Tuttle and Eric Daniel Metzgar | Crime + Punishment

Josh Lowell, Phillip Manderla and Peter Mortimer | ?The Dawn Wall

Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme, Tobias N. Siebert and Hans Robert Eisenhauer | O?f Fathers and Sons

Daniel McCabe, Geoff McLean and Alyse Ardell Spiegel | ?This Is Congo
Outstanding Achievement in Editing

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WINNER Joshua Altman and Bing Liu | Minding the Gap

RaMell Ross | ?Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Julien Faraut | ?John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection

Michael Harte | Three Identical Strangers

Jeff Malmberg and Aaron Wickenden | ?Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography

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WINNER Jimmy Chin, Clair Popkin and Mikey Schaeffer | F?ree Solo

Jarred Alterman | ?Bisbee '17

Shevaun Mizrahi | D?istant Constellation

RaMell Ross | ?Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Emmanuel Gras | M?akala

Bing Liu | Minding the Gap
Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score

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WINNER Ishai Adar | Shirkers

Keegan DeWitt | B?isbee '17

Travis Wilkerson | ?Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?

Marco Beltrami | F?ree Solo

Nathan Halpern and Chris Ruggiero | ?Minding the Gap

Dan Deacon | ?Time Trial
Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design or Animation

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WINNER Lucas Cellar and Sandi Tan | ?Shirkers

Syd Garon, Anton Goddard and Chris Kirk | ?Bathtubs Over Broadway

Toby Cornish | ?Beuys

Patrick Mate | ?Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

Shofela Coker | L?iyana

Ariel Costa and Rodrigo Miguel Rangel | W?on't You Be My Neighbor?
Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film

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WINNER Minding the Gap? | Directed by Bing Liu

America? | Directed by Chase Whiteside and Erick Stoll

Distant Constellation? | Directed by Shevaun Mizrahi

Hale County This Morning, This Evening? | Directed by RaMell Ross

Shirkers? | Directed by Sandi Tan
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking

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WINNER My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes? | Directed by Charlie Tyrell

Baby Brother? | Directed by Kamau Bilal

Concussion Protocol? | Directed by Josh Begley

Skip Day? | Directed by Patrick Bresnan and Ivete Lucas

Volte? | Directed by Monika Kolecka and Karolina Poryzala
Spotlight Award

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WINNER The Distant Barking of Dogs? | Directed by Simon Lereng

Wilmont Island of Hungry Ghosts? | Directed by Gabrielle Brady

The Other Side of Everything? | Directed by Mila Turajlic

Roll Red Roll? | Directed by Nancy Schwartzman

The Silence of Others? | Directed by Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar

A Woman Captured? | Directed by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter
Audience Choice Prize

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WINNER Free Solo? | Directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin

Bathtubs Over Broadway? | Directed by Dava Whisenant

Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.? | Directed by Stephen Loveridge

Minding the Gap? | Directed by Bing Liu

On Her Shoulders? | Directed by Alexandria Bombach

Quincy? | Directed by Rashida Jones and Al Hicks

RBG? | Directed by Julie Cohen and Betsy West

Shirkers? | Directed by Sandi Tan

Three Identical Strangers? | Directed by Tim Wardle

Won't You Be My Neighbor?? | Directed by Morgan Neville
Outstanding Achievement in a Nonfiction Film for Broadcast

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WINNER Baltimore Rising? | Directed by Sonja Sohn | HBO

Believer? | Directed by Don Argott | HBO

The Final Year? | Directed by Greg Barker | HBO

I Am Evidence? | Directed by Trish Adlesic and Geeta Gandbhir | HBO

Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press? | Directed by Brian Knappenberger | Netflix

This is Home: A Refugee Story? | Directed by Alexandra Shiva | Epix
Outstanding Achievement in a Nonfiction Series for Broadcast

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WINNER America to Me? | Directed by Steve James | Starz

Evil Genius? | Directed by Trey Borzilleri and Barbara Schroeder | Netflix

Flint Town? | Directed by Zackary Canepari, Drea Cooper and Jessica Dimmock | Netflix

The Fourth Estate? | Directed by Liz Garbus | Showtime

The Trade? | Directed by Matthew Heineman | Showtime

Wild Wild Country? | Directed by Chapman Way and Maclain Way | Netflix
Heterodox Award

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WINNER American Animals? | Directed by Bart Layton

Obscuro Barroco? | Directed by Evangelia Kranioti

Skate Kitchen? | Directed by Crystal Moselle

The Tale? | Directed by Jennifer Fox

We the Animals? | Directed by Jeremiah Zagar
Unforgettables (non-competitive honor)

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AnnetteOntell | 3?06 Hollywood

America | ?America

Issei Sagawa | ?Caniba

AlexHonnold | F?ree Solo

JulitaSalmeron| L?ots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle

Nick Bollettieri | ?Love Means Zero

M.I.A. | M?atangi/Maya/M.I.A.

Kiere Johnson, Bing Liu and Zack Mulligan | M?inding the Gap

Abu Osama | O?f Fathers and Sons

Nadia Murad | O?n Her Shoulders

Ruth Bader Ginsburg | ?RBG

Scotty Bowers| Scotty and the Secret of Hollywood

Georges Cardona, Jasmine Ng, Sophie Siddique and Sandi Tan | Shirkers

Edward Galland, David Kellman and Robert Shafran | ?Three Identical Strangers

Fred Rogers | ?Won't You Be My Neighbor?