Cinema Eye Honors (CEH) Awards: ’32 Sounds’ Wins Outstanding Nonfiction Feature
Cinema Eye Honors, the organization that recognizes outstanding artistic achievement in nonfiction and documentary films and series, has awarded Sam Green’s Oscar-shortlisted 32 Sounds the top prize, Outstanding Nonfiction Feature as well as awards for its score and sound design. The film explores the elemental phenomenon of sound by weaving together 32 specific sound explorations into a cinematic meditation on the power of sound to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world around us.
For Outstanding Direction there was a tie: Maite Alberdi for The Eternal Memory and Kaouther Ben Hania for Four Daughters. Both films are on the Oscar shortlist for Documentary Feature. Another shortlisted Oscar hopeful, 20 Days in Mariupol, was named Outstanding Production.
For the first time in Cinema Eye Honors seventeen year-history, the ceremony took place in Manhattan at the New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem.
Here is the full list of winners.
Outstanding Nonfiction Feature
32 Sounds
Directed by Sam Green
Produced by Josh Penn and Thomas O. Kriegsmann
Outstanding Direction
Maite Alberdi
The Eternal Memory
Kaouther Ben Hania
Four Daughters
Outstanding Editing
Michael Harte
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Outstanding Production
Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson Rath, Derl McCrudden and Vasilisa Stepanenko
20 Days in Mariupol
Outstanding Cinematography
Ants Tammik
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Outstanding Original Score
JD Samson
32 Sounds
Outstanding Sound Design
Mark Mangini
32 Sounds
Outstanding Visual Design
Thomas Curtis and Sean Pierce
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Outstanding Debut
Kokomo City
Directed by D. Smith
Outstanding Nonfiction Short
Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games
Directed by Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson
Outstanding Nonfiction Film for Broadcast
The Stroll
Directed by Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker
Outstanding Nonfiction Series
Paul T. Goldman
Directed by Jason Woliner
Outstanding Anthology Series
The 1619 Project
Executive Producers: Nikole Hannah-Jones, Roger Ross Williams, Shoshana Guy, Caitlin Roper, Kathleen Lingo, Helen Verno and Oprah Winfrey
Outstanding Broadcast Editing
Sara Newens, Anne Yao and David Teague
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
Outstanding Broadcast Cinematography
Heloisa Passos
Nothing Lasts Forever
Audience Choice Prize
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
Directed by Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp
Spotlight Award
Q
Directed by Jude Chehab
Heterodox Award
The Buriti Flower
Directed by João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora
The Unforgettables (Non-Competitive Honor)
Jon Batiste and Suleika Jaouad
American Symphony
Apolonia Sokol
Apolonia, Apolonia
Bobi Wine
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
Penny Lane
Confessions of a Good Samaritan
Shere Hite
The Disappearance of Shere Hite
Augusto Góngora & Paulina Urrutia
The Eternal Memory
Nikki Giovanni
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Bethann Hardison
Invisible Beauty
Joan Baez
Joan Baez I Am a Noise
Daniella Carter, Koko Da Doll, Liyah Mitchell and Dominique Silver
Kokomo City
David Cornwell aka John le Carré
The Pigeon Tunnel
Michael J. Fox
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Margaret “Mati” Engel
A Still Small Voice
Aaju Peter
Twice Colonized
Ravish Kumar
While We Watched
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