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
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