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Apple TV+’s Girls State and HBO’s Ren Faire scored three nominations apiece to lead all broadcast nominees announced Thursday for the 18th Cinema Eye Honors. The group, which recognizes the year’s outstanding nonfiction and documentary films and TV series, also revealed the 16-film longlist for its annual Audience Choice Prize, won last year by National Geographic’s Bobi Wine: The People’s President, which went on to get nominated for the Documentary Feature Oscar.
The past six winners of the Best Documentary Feature Oscar — this year’s winner 20 Days in Mariupol, Navalny, Summer of Soul, My Octopus Teacher, American Factory and Free Solo — were all Audience Choice Prize nominees. Fans voting will whittle the list to 10 beginning next week, with winners in that and all categories to be announced at an awards ceremony January 9 at the New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem.
The full list of 2024 Cinema Eye noms — including in the Outstanding Nonfiction Feature category, which is the group’s equivalent to the Oscars’ Best Documentary Feature — will be announced November 14.
Cinema Eye today also revealed its list of eight Unforgettables Honorees including Brian Eno, Lhakpa Sherpa from Lucy Walker’s Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa and Harper Steele from Will & Harper. It also announced the list of shorts semifinalists highlighting the year’s top documentary shorts.
Among the notable broadcast nominees today were recent National Humanities Medal winner Dawn Porter, a double nominee (for Hulu’s The Lady Bird Diaries and Showtime’s Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court). Steve James scored his record 14th nomination, for ESPN’s The Luckiest Guy in the World, and Free Solo filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi scored their 11th and ninth nominations, respectively, this time in Anthology Series category for National Geographic’s Photographer.
HBO led all networks and streamers with 12 nominations.
Here’s the list of nominees announced today:
Audience Choice Award Long List
Black Box Diaries
Directed by Shiori Ito
Copa 71
Directed by Rachel Ramsay and James Erskine
Daughters
Directed by Natalie Rae and Angela Patton
Eno
Directed by Gary Hustwit
Frida
Directed by Carla Gutiérrez
Grand Theft Hamlet
Directed by Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
Directed by Lucy Walker
No Other Land
Directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
Piece by Piece
Directed by Morgan Neville
Porcelain War
Directed by Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Directed by Benjamin Ree
Secret Mall Apartment
Directed by Jeremy Workman
Skywalkers: A Love Story
Directed by Jeff Zimbalist
Sugarcane
Directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Directed by Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui
Will and Harper
Directed by Josh Greenbaum
Broadcast Film
Bread & Roses
Directed by Sahra Mani
Apple TV+
Girls State
Directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss
Apple TV+
Great Photo, Lovely Life: Facing a Family’s Secrets
Directed by Amanda Mustard and Rachel Beth Anderson
HBO
The Lady Bird Diaries
Directed by Dawn Porter
Hulu
Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.
Directed by Jeremy O. Harris
HBO
Spermworld
Directed by Lance Oppenheim
FX
Nonfiction Series
America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders
Directed by Greg Whiteley and Chelsea Yarnell
Netflix
Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court
Directed by Dawn Porter
Showtime
The Enfield Poltergeist
Directed by Jerry Rothwell
Apple TV+
The Luckiest Guy in the World
Directed by Steve James
ESPN
Ren Faire
Directed by Lance Oppenheim
HBO
Telemarketers
Directed by Adam Bhala Lough and Sam Lipman-Stern
HBO
Anthology Series
Conan O’Brien Must Go
Executive Producers Conan O’Brien, Jeff Ross
HBO
De La Calle
Executive Producers Nick Barili, Jared Andrukanis, Picky Talarico, Lydia Tenaglia, Christopher Collins, Amanda Culkowski, Bruce Gillmer, Craig H. Shepherd
Paramount+
God Save Texas
Executive Producers Lawrence Wright, Alex Gibney, Richard Linklater, Peter Berg, Michael Lombardo, Elizabeth Rogers, Stacey Offman, Richard Perello, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller
HBO
High on the Hog Season 2
Executive Producers Roger Ross Williams, Geoff Martz, Craig Piligian, Sarba Das, Fabienne Toback, Karis Jagger, Jessica B. Harris, Stephen Satterfield, Michele Barnwell
Netflix
How To with John Wilson Season 3
Executive Producers Nathan Fielder, John Wilson, Michael Koman, Clark Reinking
HBO
Photographer
Executive Producers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhely, Jimmy Chin, Pagan Harleman, Betsy Forhan
National Geographic
Broadcast Editing
Girls State
Edited by Amy Foote
Apple TV+
The Greatest Night in Pop
Edited by Nic Zimmerman, Will Znidaric, David Brodie
Netflix
Ren Faire
Edited by Max Allman, Nicholas Nazmi
HBO
The Saint of Second Chances
Edited by Alan Lowe, Jeff Malmberg, Miles Wilkerson
Netflix
Telemarketers
Edited by Christopher Passig
HBO
Time Bomb Y2K
Edited by Marley McDonald, Maya Mumma
HBO
Broadcast Cinematography
America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders
Director of Photography Jonathan Nicholas
Netflix
The Enfield Poltergeist
Director of Photography Ruben Woodin Deschamps, Carmen Pellon Brussosa, David Katznelson
Apple TV+
Girls State
Director of Photography – Nominees TBD
Apple TV+
Photographer
Director of Photography Michael Crommett, Rita Baghdadi, Peter Hutchens, Melissa Langer, Pauline Maroun
National Geographic
Ren Faire
Director of Photography Nate Hurtsellers
HBO
You Were My First Boyfriend
Director of Photography Brennan Vance, J. Bennett
HBO
The Unforgettables Honorees
Shiori Ito
Black Box Diaries
Brian Eno
Eno
Lhakpa Sherpa
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham
No Other Land
Patrice Jetter
Patrice: The Movie
Jenna Marvin
Queendom
Chris Smalls
Union
Harper Steele
Will and Harper
Shorts List Semifinalists
Contractions
Directed by Lynne Sachs / NY Times Op-Docs
Eternal Father
Directed by Ömer Sami / New Yorker
I Am Ready, Warden
Directed by Smriti Mundhra / MTV Documentary Films
Incident
Directed by Bill Morrison / New Yorker
Instruments of a Beating Heart
Directed by Ema Ryan Yamazaki / NY Times Op-Docs
Love in the Time of Migration
Directed by Erin Semine Kökdil and Chelsea Abbas / LA Times
Makayla’s Voice: A Letter to the World
Directed by Julio Palacio / Netflix
The Medallion
Directed by Ruth Hunduma / New Yorker
A Move
Directed by Elahe Esmaili / NY Times Op-Docs
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
Directed by Molly O’Brien / Netflix
A Swim Lesson
Directed by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack / POV