The Cinema Eye Honors have announced some of this year’s nominees while also revealing a new category awarding broadcast series, distinguishing them from broadcast features. Among those competing in the inaugural bunch are Steve James‘ America to Me, Liz Garbus‘ The Fourth Estate, and of course Netflix’s popular Wild Wild Country.
The other categories covered in this first wave include the Audience Choice Prize, which includes obvious box office hits like RBG, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Free Solo, and Three Identical Strangers, as well as Shirkers, which is just dropping on Netflix this week.
The subjects of Shirkers, as well as the other popular titles mentioned, have also been recognized among this year’s “Unforgettables,” which unlike the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards allows for deceased subjects, so Fred Rogers is in there.
Below is the full list of initial Cinema Eye Honors nominees (including the drama-hybrid-showcasing Heterodox Award), as well as the shortlist of shorts contenders, and highlighted unforgettable subjects.
AUDIENCE CHOICE PRIZE NOMINEES
Bathtubs Over Broadway
Directed by Dava Whisenant
Free Solo
Directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.
Directed by Stephen Loveridge
Minding the Gap
Directed by Bing Liu
On Her Shoulders
Directed by Alexandria Bombach
Quincy
Directed by Rashida Jones and Al Hicks
RBG
Directed by Julie Cohen and Betsy West
Shirkers
Directed by Sandi Tan
Three Identical Strangers
Directed by Tim Wardle
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Directed by Morgan Neville
NONFICTION SHORTS LIST
(Five nominees in this category will be announced on Thursday, November 8)
Baby Brother
Directed by Kamau Bilal
Concussion Protocol
Directed by Josh Begley
The Earth is Humming
Directed by Garrett Bradley
My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes
Directed by Charlie Tyrell
A Night at the Garden
Directed by Marshall Curry
Las Nubes
Directed by Juan Pablo González
Sister Hearts
Directed by Mohammad Gorjestani
Skip Day
Directed by Patrick Bresnan and Ivete Lucas
Volte
Directed by Monika Kotecka and Karolina Poryzala
Zhalanash – Empty Shore
Directed by Marcin Sauter
HETERODOX AWARD NOMINEES
American Animals
Directed by Bart Layton
Obscuro Barocco
Directed by Evangelia Kranioti
Skate Kitchen
Directed by Crystal Moselle
The Tale
Directed by Jennifer Fox
We the Animals
Directed by Jeremiah Zagar
BROADCAST FILM NOMINEES
Baltimore Rising
Directed by Sonja Sohn
Believer
Directed by Don Argott
The Final Year
Directed by Greg Barker
I Am Evidence
Directed by Trish Adlesic and Geeta Gandbhir
Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press
Directed by Brian Knappenberger
This is Home: A Refugee Story
Directed by Alexandra Shiva
BROADCAST SERIES NOMINEES
America to Me
Directed by Steve James
Evil Genius
Directed by Trey Borzilleri and Barbara Schroeder
Flint Town
Directed by Zackary Canepari, Drea Cooper and Jessica Dimmock
The Fourth Estate
Directed by Liz Garbus
The Trade
Directed by Matthew Heineman
Wild Wild Country
Directed by Chapman Way and Maclain Way
UNFORGETTABLES: NONFICTION SUBJECTS OF 2018
Annette Ontell
306 Hollywood
América
América
Issei Sagawa
Caniba
Alex Honnold
Free Solo
Julita Salmerón
Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle
Nick Bollettieri
Love Means Zero
M.I.A.
Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.
Kiere Johnson, Bing Liu and Zack Mulligan
Minding the Gap
Abu Osama
Of Fathers and Sons
Nadia Murad
On Her Shoulders
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
RBG
Scotty Bowers
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Georges Cardona, Jasmine Ng, Sophie Siddique and Sandi Tan
Shirkers
Edward Galland, David Kellman and Robert Shafran
Three Identical Strangers
Fred Rogers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
