18th Cinema Eye Honors: ‘No Other Land’ Earns Top Award
The Cinema Eye Honors were announced tonight at the New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem where the Oscar-shortlisted Palestinian doc No Other Land won the highest honor of the night, Outstanding Nonfiction Filmmaking, among its three prizes.
No Other Land directors Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor also received the award for Debut Feature, with Abraham and Adra also honored as Unforgettables for their appearance on screen in the film.
Eno, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat and Union took home two honors each, with Eno taking the Honor for Visual Design and for Unforgettable Brian Eno, Soundtrack winning Editing for Rik Chaubet and Sound Design for Ranko Pauković and Alek Goosse, and Union recognized for Production (Brett Story, Stephen Maing, Mars Verrone, Samantha Curley and Martin DiCicco) and Unforgettable Chris Smalls.
A number of films on the Oscar Best Documentary Feature Shortlist received trophies this evening, including Outstanding Direction for Mati Diop (Dahomey), Cinematography for Christopher LaMarca and Emily Kassie (Sugarcane), Original Score for Uno Helmersson (The Remarkable Life of Ibelin), Audience Choice Prize for Porcelain War and Unforgettable Honors for Black Box Diaries (Shiori Ito), Queendom (Genna Marvin) and Will & Harper (Harper Steele).
HBO earned four awards in the Broadcast Film and Series categories: Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play. for Broadcast Film, Telemarketers for Nonfiction Series, How To with John Wilson (Season 3) for Anthology Series and Ren Faire for Broadcast Cinematography. The Broadcast Editing Honor went to Apple’s Girls State.
Here is the complete list of winners.
Nonfiction Feature
No Other Land
Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning, Julius Pollux Rothlaender and Bård Harazi Farbu
Direction
Mati Diop for Dahomey
Editing
Rik Chaubet for Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Production
Brett Story, Stephen Maing, Mars Verrone, Samantha Curley and Martin DiCicco for Union
Cinematography
Christopher LaMarca and Emily Kassie for Sugarcane
Original Music Score
Uno Helmersson for The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Sound Design
Ranko Pauković and Alek Goosse for Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Visual Design
Brendan Dawes for Eno
Audience Choice Prize
Porcelain War
Directed by Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev
Debut Feature
No Other Land
Directed by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor
Unforgettables
Shiori Ito for Black Box Diaries
Brian Eno for Eno
Lhakpa Sherpa for Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra for No Other Land
Patrice Jetter for Patrice: The Movie
Genna Marvin for Queendom
Chris Smalls for Union
Harper Steele for Will & Harper
Nonfiction Short
Incident
Directed by Bill Morrison
Broadcast Film
Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.
Directed by Jeremy O. Harris
Nonfiction Series
Telemarketers
Directed by Adam Bhala Lough and Sam Lipman-Stern
Anthology Series
How To with John Wilson Season 3
John Wilson, Nathan Fielder, Michael Koman and Clark Reinking
Broadcast Editing
Amy Foote for Girls State
Broadcast Cinematography
Nate Hurtsellers for Ren Faire
Spotlight Award
Black Snow
Directed by Alina Simone
Heterodox Award
Songs from the Hole
Directed by Contessa Gayles
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