Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes has taken out the top prize for Outstanding Nonfiction Feature at the 16th Annual Cinema Eye Honors. The film also picked up a win for Outstanding Cinematography. Elsewhere, Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love scored three awards for Outstanding Editing, Score, and Visual Design, while Laura Poitras was awarded with Outstanding Direction for All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.
Winners in bold below.
Outstanding Nonfiction Feature
- All That Breathes (Directed and Produced by Shaunak Sen, Produced by Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer)
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Directed and Produced by Laura Poitras, Produced by Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin and Yoni Golijov)
- Fire of Love (Directed and Produced by Sara Dosa, Produced by Shane Boris and Ina Fichman)
- Navalny (Directed by Daniel Roher, Produced by Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris)
- A Night of Knowing Nothing (Directed by Payal Kapadia, Produced by Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff and Ranabir Das)
- The Territory (Directed and Produced by Alex Pritz, Produced by Darren Aronofsky, Gabriel Uchida, Sigrid Dyekjær, Lizzie Gillett and Will N. Miller)
Outstanding Direction
- All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen)
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
- Beba (Rebeca Huntt)
- Descendant (Margaret Brown)
- Fire of Love (Sara Dosa)
- A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia)
Outstanding Editing
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Amy Foote, Joe Bini and Brian A. Kates)
- Fire of Love (Erin Casper and Jocelyne Chaput)
- Moonage Daydream (Brett Morgen)
- Riotsville, USA (Nels Bangerter)
- Three Minutes: A Lengthening (Katharina Wartena)
Outstanding Production
- All That Breathes (Aman Mann, Shaunak Sen and Teddy Leifer)
- A House Made of Splinters (Monica Hellström)
- In Her Hands (Juan Camilo Cruz and Jonathan Schaerf)
- Navalny (Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris)
- The Territory (Alex Pritz, Darren Aronofsky, Gabriel Uchida, Sigrid Dyekjær, Lizzie Gillett and Will N. Miller)
Outstanding Cinematography
- All That Breathes (Ben Bernhard)
- Cow (Magda Kowalczyk)
- A House Made of Splinters (Simon Lereng Wilmont)
- A Night of Knowing Nothing (Ranabir Das)
- The Territory (Alex Pritz and Tangãi Uru-eu-wau-wau)
- Users (Bennett Cerf)
Outstanding Original Score
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Soundwalk Collective)
- Descendant (Ray Angry and Rhiannon Giddens/Dirk Powell)
- Fire of Love (Nicolas Godin)
- Nothing Compares (Linda Buckley and Irene Buckley)
- The Territory (Katya Mihailova)
- Users (Dave Cerf)
Outstanding Sound Design
- All That Breathes (Niladri Shekhar Roy, Sound Designer, and Susmit “Bob” Nath, Sound Design Consultant)
- Fire of Love (Patrice LeBlanc, Sound Designer, and Gavin Fernandes, Re-recording Mixer)
- I Didn’t See You There (Tom Paul, Lead Sound Designer & Re-recording Mixer, and Andrés E. Marthe González, Supervising Sound Editor)
- Moonage Daydream (Samir Foco, John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone, Sound Designers)
- The Territory (Rune Klausen and Peter Albrechtsen, Sound Designers)
Outstanding Visual Design
- Dear Mr. Brody (Gary Walker, Visual Effects; John Mark Lapham, Collages; Sam Klatt, Graphics & Compositing)
- Fire of Love (Lucy Munger, Animation; Kara Blake, Graphic Artist; and Rui Ting Ji, Hand-drawn animation & Illustrations)
- Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues (Hectah Arias, Animation and Graphics)
- Moonage Daydream (Stefan Nadelman, Animation)
- My Old School (Rory Lowe, Animation Director, and Scott Morriss, Lead Animator)
Outstanding Debut
- Bad Axe (Directed by David Siev)
- Beba (Directed by Rebeca Huntt)
- I Didn’t See You There (Directed by Reid Davenport)
- A Night of Knowing Nothing (Directed by Payal Kapadia)
- Nothing Compares (Directed by Kathryn Ferguson)
- The Territory (Directed by Alex Pritz)
Outstanding Nonfiction Short
- In Flow of Words (Directed by Eliane Esther Bots)
- Last Days of August (Directed by Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck and Robert Machoian)
- Long Line of Ladies (Directed by Rayka Zehtabchi and Shaandiin Tome)
- The Martha Mitchell Effect (Directed by Anne Alvergue and Debra McClutchy)
- Nuisance Bear (Directed by Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden)
- Shut Up and Paint (Directed by Alex Mallis and Titus Kaphar)
Audience Choice Prize
- All That Breathes (Directed by Shaunak Sen)
- The Balcony Movie (Directed by Paweł Łoziński)
- Fire of Love (Directed a by Sara Dosa)
- Last Flight Home (Directed by Ondi Timoner)
- Mija (Directed by Isabel Castro)
- My Old School (Directed by Jono McLeod)
- Navalny (Directed by Daniel Roher)
- Nothing Compares (Directed by Kathryn Ferguson)
- Sr. (Directed by Chris Smith)
- The Territory (Directed by Alex Pritz)
Spotlight
- After Sherman (Directed by Jon-SesrieGoff)
- Brotherhood (Directed by Francesco Montagner)
- Hidden Letters (Directed by Violet Du Feng and Zhao Qing)
- Into the Ice (Directed by Lars Henrik Ostenfeld)
- Master of Light (Directed by Rosa Ruth Boesten)
Heterodox
- Aftersun (Directed by Charlotte Wells)
- Dry Ground Burning (Directed by Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós)
- Dos Estaciones (Directed by Juan Pablo González)
- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp)
- The Rehearsal (Season One) (Directed by Nathan Fielder)
The Unforgettables (Non-Competitive Honor)
- All That Breathes (Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Nan Goldin
- Bad Axe (Chun Siev)
- Beba (Rebeca Huntt)
- Fire of Love (Katia and Maurice Krafft)
- Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down (Gabby Giffords)
- I Didn’t See You There (Reid Davenport)
- In Her Hands (Zarifa Ghafari)
- Last Flight Home (Eli Timoner)
- Mija (Doris Muñoz)
- My Old School (Brandon Lee)
- Navalny (Alexei Navalny)
- Nothing Compares (Sinead O’Connor)
- Sr. (Robert Downey Sr.)
- The Territory (Bitaté Uru-eu-wau-wau and Neidinha Bandeira)
Legacy Award
Crumb
Directed by Terry Zwigoff
Produced by Lynn O’Donnell and Terry Zwigoff
Edited by Victor Livingston
Cinematography by Maryse Alberti
Music by David Beddinghaus
Sound by Scott Breindell
Shorts List Films
- Anastasia (Directed by Sarah McCarthy)
- The Joys and Sorrows of Young Yuguo (Directed by Ilinca Călugăreanu)
- Keys to the City (Directed by Ian Moubayed)
