UPDATED with the full list of winners and more details, including three leading awards for fire of love: Anything that breathes and All the beauty and the bloodshed – the two front-runners for Best Documentary at the Oscars – shared top prizes tonight at the 16th annual Cinema Eye Honors in New York.
Filmmaker Laura Poitras was recognized for her work on Best Director All the beauty and the bloodshed. But it was Anything that breathesIt was directed by Shaunak Sen and won Outstanding Nonfiction Film, the Cinema Eye Honors equivalent of Best Documentary at the Oscars (see the full list of winners below).
Sen’s film explores the work of Nadeem and Saud – two brothers in Delhi, India – who have devoted their energies to rehabilitating birds of prey such as the black kite that suffer in the metropolis’s polluted air.
“Just today I asked Nadeem how many birds he thinks they have saved so far,” Sen said as he accepted the Cinema Eye Honor. And he casually said, “26,000.” It’s almost like that aspect of the film that we almost forget to talk about, the sheer power of their work. So this is the greatest honor.”
Anything that breathes also won the cinematography award in recognition of the skills of Ben Bernhard and Riju Das (Saumyananda Sahi also contributed cinematography to the film). The film’s protagonists, Nadeem and Saud, were among the subjects of leading documentaries honored as ‘Unforgettable’ in the past year. Artist Nan Goldin, in focus All the beauty and the bloodshedwas also declared Unforgettable.
Poitras documentary covers not only Goldin’s extraordinary artistic career, but also her efforts as part of the PAIN group to shame leading museums and art institutions around the world for their ties to the Sackler family, owners of OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma. The Sacklers have been major benefactors of such institutions, cleaning up a reputation that would otherwise have been tarnished by OxyContin’s disastrous influence in creating the opioid crisis.
“I have to give credit to PAIN’s work because he takes on the Sackler family,” Poitras said as he accepted the director’s award. “This film is not possible without Nan Goldin. Nan gives everything to her art and she gave everything to this film. She is a colleague, a friend, and I love her. And it’s for her.”
fire of love, Sara Dosa’s film about French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died in a volcanic eruption in Japan, won three prizes that night – the most of any film. It won the awards for Outstanding Editing, Outstanding Visual Design (associated with monday dream) and Outstanding Original Score honoring composer Nicolas Godin of the French electronic music duo Air.
monday dream, director Brett Morgen’s film about David Bowie, won the award. In addition to the connection with fire of love for visual design it won for sound design, an honor shared by sound designers Samir Foco, John Warhurst and Nina Hartsone.
Daniel Rohrer Navalnya strong Oscar nominee about imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, it also received a number of awards, including Outstanding Achievement in Production and the Audience Choice Award, an award voted for by documentary fans around the world.
Nice bear, directed by Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden, won Outstanding Nonfiction Short Film. Published by The New Yorker, the film also made the Oscar shortlist. Alex Pritz, director of the territorywon the Outstanding Debut Award for his feature film about an indigenous tribe in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest trying to protect their land from illegal miners, farmers and settlers.
It was not a good night for Vladimir Putin. In addition to the awards for Navalny – a film about Putin’s harshest Russian critic – Chernobyl: the lost links won Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Film for Broadcast (an award that goes to a broadcast-oriented documentary, as opposed to films with a major theatrical release). In accepting the award, director James Jones called out Putin and praised the people of Ukraine, whose territory includes the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
“It’s really a film about the terrible consequences of lying in the Kremlin, but it’s also a film about the strength and resilience of the Ukrainian people,” Jones said of the scene. “And the film ends with Ukraine’s independence and the collapse of the Soviet Union, which I think is what Putin is now trying to undo [I] Awarding the prize to our donors who have fled or fled Ukraine since the beginning of the war, all of whom have been affected to varying degrees, some of them very directly and extremely.”
It was an important night for HBO Documentary Films. It won for Chernobyl: the lost linksand its multiple Black and missing, directed by Geeta Gandbhir and Samantha Knowles, was named Outstanding Nonfiction Series. HBO documentaries have also been produced Anything that breathes (along with Sideshow and Submarine Deluxe) and All the beauty and the bloodshed (along with Neon and Participant).
The Cinema Eye Honors recognize the best non-fiction films, including production, cinematography, editing and music composition. Today’s ceremony took place at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York.
This is the full list of winners:
16-hour annual Cinema Eye honors winners | January 12, 2023
Outstanding achievement in the production of non-fiction films
Anything that breathes
Directed and produced by Shaunak Sr
Produced by Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer
Excellent performance vs
All the beauty and the bloodshed
Laura Potras
Excellent editing performance
fire of love
Erin Casper and Jocelyne Chaput
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
Anything that breathes
Ben Bernhard and Riju Das
Excellent performance in production
Navalny
Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris
Excellent performance in the original score
fire of love
Nicholas Godin
Excellence in sound design
monday dream
Samir Foco, John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone
Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design (Drawing)
fire of love
Lucy Munger, Kara Blake and Rui Ting Ji
monday dream
Stephen Nadelmann
Outstanding performance in a debut film
the territory
Directed by Alex Pritz
audience award
Navalny
Directed by Daniel Roher
Outstanding Achievement in a Non-Fiction Film for Broadcast
Chernobyl: the lost links
Directed by James Jones | HBO Documentary/HBO Max
Outstanding Achievement in a Nonfiction Series
Black and missing
Directed by Geeta Gandbhir and Samantha Knowles | HBO Documentary/HBO Max
Outstanding performance in the anthology series
As with John Wilson (season two)
Nathan Fielder, Michael Koman, Clark Reinking and John Wilson, executive producers | HBO
Outstanding achievement in editing a non-fiction film or series for broadcast
We need to talk about Cosby
Meg Ramsay | show time
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in a Non-Fiction Film or Series for Broadcast
playing with sharks
Michael Taylor, Judd Overton, Nathan Barlow and Toby Ralph | Disney+
Outstanding Achievement in Non-Fiction Short Film Production
Nice bear
Directed by Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden
heritage prize
crumb
Directed by Terry Zwigoff
Heterodox price
After sun
Charlotte Wells directs
Spotlight prize
master of light
Directed by Rosa Ruth Boesten
Author: Matthew Carey
Source: Deadline
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