Cinema Eye Honors (CEH) Awards: ‘Come See Me in the Good Light’ Wins Top Honor

Erik Anderson January 11, 2026

Come See Me in the Good Light won two awards at the Cinema Eye Honors in New York tonight, including Outstanding Feature. The Ryan White-directed, Tig Notaro-produced film tells the love story of poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley and their courage, grace and humor responding to Gibson’s terminal cancer diagnosis.

“When I pitched this to Jess and Ryan, they were like, ‘Huh, okay. Yeah, a poet with cancer, let us get back to you,’” Notaro recalled. “And it was just really like, ‘Listen, if you just look into Andrea and Meg just even a little bit, you’re either going to be in or out.’ And three days later, they called me and they were like, ‘Oh man, we are buying our plane tickets, and we are going out there [to Colorado] next week.’ And I remember Ryan saying, ‘We can’t pitch this to any streamers. We have to raise money independently and make the most beautiful film that we can possibly make.’ And we did that.”

A big festival hit since its debut at Sundance, where it won the Festival Favorite Award, the film has since gone onto earn kudos from Toronto critics, the San Francisco International Film Festival and is nominated for a Spirit Award for Best Documentary. It’s also one of 15 films on the Oscar shortlist.

That shortlist also holds two titles that tied for Outstanding Production, HBO’s The Alabama Solution and the Netflix feature Apocalypse in the Tropics. Geeta Gandbhir won Outstanding Direction for her Netflix documentary The Perfect Neighbor, which won the Critics Choice Award for Best Doc in December. The Oscar-shortlisted film also won Outstanding Editing, forViridiana Lieberman. Seeds, the Oscar-shortlisted feature documentary directed by Brittany Shyne, won two awards: Outstanding Debut and Outstanding Cinematography.

In television, Social Studies, the FX series directed by Lauren Greenfield, was a double winner for Outstanding Nonfiction Series and Broadcast Editing.

The 19th Annual Honors were once again held at the New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem and were live streamed on Cinema Eye’s YouTube channel. The night’s presenters (Cinema Eye refers to them as “guides”) included six previous Cinema Eye winners: Mila Aung-Thwin (Last Train Home); Diane Becker (Navalny); Sigrid Dyekjær (The Cave); Contessa Gayles (Songs from the Hole); Su Kim (Hale County This Morning This Evening), and Caroline Waterlow (OJ: Made in America).

Here is the complete list of winners.

Film

Outstanding Nonfiction Feature: Come See Me in the Good Light

Outstanding Direction: Geeta Gandbhir, The Perfect Neighbor

Outstanding Cinematography: Brittany Shyne, Seeds

Outstanding Editing: Viridiana Lieberman, The Perfect Neighbor

Outstanding Production (tie): Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman, The Alabama Solution & Petra Costa and Alessandra Orofino, Apocalypse in the Tropics

Outstanding Original Music Score: Blake Neely, Come See Me in the Good Light

Outstanding Sound Design: James LeBrecht, Greg Francis, & Nina Hartstone – Deaf President Now!

Outstanding Visual Design: Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Josh Shaffner, It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley

Outstanding Debut: Seeds by Brittany Shyne

Outstanding Nonfiction Short: All the Empty Rooms

Spotlight Award: To the West, in Zapata

Heterodox Award: The Voice of Hind Rajab

Audience Choice Prize: The Tale of Silyan

Television

Outstanding Broadcast Film: Pee-wee as Himself

Outstanding Nonfiction Series: Social Studies

Outstanding Anthology Series: Conan O’Brien Must Go

Outstanding Broadcast Editing: Alyse Ardell Spiegel, Helen Kearns, Catherine Bull, & Charles Little II – Social Studies

Outstanding Broadcast Cinematography: Tom Elliot, Sy Turnbull, & Jurgen Lisse – Omnivore

Special awards

Legacy Award:

* Burden of Dreams by Les Blank
* Portrait of Jason by Shirley Clarke
* Sans Soleil by Chris Marker
* Tongues Untied by Marlon T. Riggs

Cinema Eye-Con Award for Career Achievement: Janus Billeskov Jansen

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.