Ryan White’s Come See Me in the Good Light leads the nominations for the 19th Annual Cinema Eye Honors with six nods, including Outstanding Nonfiction Feature and Outstanding Direction. Elsewhere, 2000 Meters to Andriivka, Cover-Up, and Seeds earned five nominations each.
The Cinema Eye Honors awards ceremony will take place at the New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem on January 8. Full list of nominations below.
NONFICTION FEATURE
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson-Rath, Alex Babenko and Sam Slater
Afternoons of Solitude
Albert Serra, Montse Triola, Luis Ferrón, Pedro Palacios, Artur Tort, Mac Verdaguer and Jordi Ribas
Come See Me in the Good Light
Ryan White, Jessica Hargrave, Tig Notaro, Stef Willen, Brandon Somerhalder, Berenice Chávez, Blake Neely, Dave Richards, Brent Kiser, Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley
Cover-Up
Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus, Yoni Golijov, Olivia Streisand, Mia Cioffi Henry, Amy Foote, Peter Bowman, Maya Shenfeld and Seymour Hersh
The Perfect Neighbor
Geeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne, Nikon Kwantu, Sam Bisbee, Viridiana Lieberman, Laura Heinzinger and Felipe Messeder
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
Sepideh Farsi, Javad Djavahery, Fatma Hassona, Cinna Peyghamy and Pierre Carrasco
Seeds
Brittany Shyne, Danielle Varga, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon, Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Daniel Timmons, Ben Kruse and Willie Head Jr.
DIRECTION
Mstyslav Chernov
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Albert Serra
Afternoons of Solitude
Ryan White
Come See Me in the Good Light
Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus
Cover-Up
Geeta Gandbhir
The Perfect Neighbor
David Osit
Predators
Brittany Shyne
Seeds
EDITING
Michelle Mizner
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Amy Foote, Peter Bowman and Laura Poitras
Cover-Up
Alexander Kashcheev
I Am Not Everything I Want to Be
Julia Loktev and Michael Taylor
My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 – Last Air in Moscow
Alexandra Strauss
Orwell: 2+2=5
Viridiana Lieberman
The Perfect Neighbor
Stephan Krumbiegel, Olaf Voigtländer and Alfredo Castro
Riefenstahl
PRODUCTION
Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner and Raney Aronson-Rath
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman
The Alabama Solution
James Jones
Antidote
Petra Costa and Alessandra Orofino
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Helle Faber
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Julia Loktev
My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 – Last Air in Moscow
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Artur Tort
Afternoons of Solitude
Ben Bernhard
Architecton
Brandon Somerhalder
Come See Me in the Good Light
Lars Erlend Tubaas Øymo and Tor Edvin Eliassen
Folktales
Brittany Shyne
Seeds
Jean Dakar
The Tale of Silyan
ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE
Sam Slater
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Blake Neely
Come See Me in the Good Light
Maya Shenfeld
Cover-Up
Kris Bowers
The Eyes of Ghana
Todd Griffin
Folktales
Alexeï Aïgui
Orwell: 2+2=5
SOUND DESIGN
Alexander Dudarev
Architecton
James LeBrecht, Greg Francis and Nina Hartstone
Deaf President Now!
Andreas Lindberg Svensson
Folktales
Bonnie Wild
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
Sean Ono Lennon, Sam Gannon and Simon Hilton
One to One: John and Yoko
Daniel Timmons and Ben Kruse
Seeds
VISUAL DESIGN
Nominees To Be Determined
Ghost Boy
Nominees To Be Determined
In Waves and War
Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Josh Shaffner
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
Norn Jordan
The New Yorker at 100
Joseph Midthun
Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted
Nominees To Be Determined
Zodiac Killer Project
DEBUT
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
Directed By Shoshannah Stern
Monk in Pieces
Directed By Billy Shebar and David C. Roberts
Remaining Native
Directed By Paige Bethmann
Seeds
Directed By Brittany Shyne
The Shepherd and the Bear
Directed By Max Keegan
Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted
Directed By Isaac Gale and Ryan Olson
SPOTLIGHT AWARD
Always
Directed By Deming Chen
The Encampments
Directed By Michael T Workman and Kei Pritsker
Flophouse America
Directed By Monica Strømdahl
Sanatorium
Directed By Gar O’Rourke
To the West, in Zapata
Directed By David Bim
AUDIENCE CHOICE PRIZE
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Directed By Petra Costa
Coexistence, My Ass!
Directed By Amber Fares
Come See Me in the Good Light
Directed By Ryan White
The Eyes of Ghana
Directed By Ben Proudfoot
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
Directed By Amy Berg
The Librarians
Directed By Kim A. Snyder
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
Directed By Shoshannah Stern
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Directed By David Borenstein
Prime Minister
Directed By Michelle Walsh and Lindsay Utz
The Tale of Silyan
Directed By Tamara Kotevska
UNFORGETTABLE HONOREES
Noam Shuster-Eliassi
Coexistence, My Ass!
Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley
Come See Me in the Good Light
Seymour Hersh
Cover-Up
Sara Shahverdi
Cutting Through Rocks
Pavel Talankin
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Jacinda Ardern
Prime Minister
Fatma Hassona
Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk
SHORTS LIST
All The Empty Rooms
Directed by Joshua Seftel
Am I the skinniest person you’ve ever seen?
Directed by Eisha Marjara
Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Directed by Brent Renaud and Craig Renaud
Crying Glacier
Directed by Lutz Stautner
The Devil is Busy
Directed by Geeta Gandbhir and Christalyn Hampton
The Long Valley
Directed by Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck and Robert Machoian
Mama Micra
Directed by Rebecca Blöcher
perfectly a strangeness
Directed by Alison McAlpine
We Were The Scenery
Directed by Christopher Radcliff
Who Loves The Sun
Directed by Arshia Shakiba
BROADCAST FILM
Deaf President Now!
Directed by Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
Apple TV+
Democracy Noir
Directed by Connie Field
SWR / ARTE / DR
Enigma
Directed by Zackary Drucker
HBO | Max
My Mom Jayne
Directed by Mariska Hargitay
HBO | Max
Pee-wee as Himself
Directed by Matt Wolf
HBO | Max
Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
Directed by Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson
Hulu, Onyx Collective
































































