Cinema Eye Honors Hand Prime Award To ‘All That Breathes’ – Deadline

UPDATED with full winners’ record and extra particulars, together with a number one three awards for Fireplace of Love: All That Breathes and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed — the 2 frontrunners for greatest documentary on the Oscars — cut up the highest awards on the sixteenth annual Cinema Eye Honors in New York tonight.

Filmmaker Laura Poitras received Excellent Route for her work on All of the Magnificence and the Bloodshed. But it surely was All That Breathes, directed by Shaunak Sen, that earned Excellent Nonfiction Characteristic, the Cinema Eye Honors’ equal to the Oscars’ Finest Documentary Characteristic (see full record of winners under).

Sen’s movie examines the work of Nadeem and Saud – two brothers in Delhi, India – who’ve devoted their energies to rehabilitating birds of prey just like the black kite, which endure within the polluted air of the metropolis.

“I used to be simply asking Nadeem immediately what number of birds he thinks they’d have saved to date,” Sen commented as he accepted the Cinema Eye Honor. “And he simply nonchalantly stated, ‘26,000.’ It’s nearly like this side of the movie, we nearly overlook to speak about, the sheer blunt drive of the work that they do. So, it’s the best honor.”

All That Breathes additionally received the cinematography award, recognizing the abilities of Ben Bernhard and Riju Das (Saumyananda Sahi additionally contributed cinematography on the movie). The protagonists of the movie, Nadeem and Saud, had been among the many topics of main documentaries this previous 12 months who had been honored as “Unforgettables.” Artist Nan Goldin, the main target of All of the Magnificence and the Bloodshed, additionally was named an Unforgettable.

Poitras’s documentary tackles not solely Goldin’s distinctive creative profession, however her efforts as a part of the group PAIN to disgrace main museums and artwork establishments all over the world into slicing ties with the Sackler household, house owners of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma. The Sacklers have been main benefactors of such establishments, cleaning a status in any other case dirty by the disastrous influence of OxyContin in triggering the opioid disaster.

“I’ve to acknowledge the work of PAIN for taking up the Sackler household,” Poitras stated as she accepted the directing award. “This movie shouldn’t be potential with out Nan Goldin. Nan offers every part to her artwork and she or he gave every part to this movie. She’s a collaborator, a pal, and I really like her. And that is for her.”

Fireplace of Love, Sara Dosa’s movie about French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, who had been killed in a volcanic eruption in Japan, earned three awards on the evening — essentially the most of any movie. It took the prizes for Excellent Modifying, Excellent Visible Design (in a tie with Moonage Daydream), and Excellent Unique Rating, recognizing composer Nicolas Godin of French digital music duo Air. 

Moonage Daydream, director Brett Morgen’s movie about David Bowie, took residence two awards. Along with tying with Fireplace of Love for visible design, it received for sound design, an honor shared by sound designers Samir Foco, John Warhurst and Nina Hartsone.   

Daniel Roher’s Navalny, a powerful Oscar contender about imprisoned Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny, additionally claimed a few awards, together with Excellent Achievement in Manufacturing, and the Viewers Selection Prize, an award voted on by documentary followers all over the world.

Nuisance Bear, directed by Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden, earned Excellent Nonfiction Quick. The movie launched by The New Yorker has additionally made the Oscar shorts shortlist. Alex Pritz, director of The Territory, received the Excellent Debut award for his characteristic about an Indigenous tribe in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest that’s making an attempt to guard its lands from unlawful miners, farmers and homesteaders.

It was not a fantastic evening for Vladimir Putin. Along with the awards for Navalny — a movie about Putin’s harshest Russian critic — Chernobyl: The Misplaced Tapes received Excellent Achievement in Nonfiction Movie for Broadcast (an award that goes to a broadcast-oriented documentary, versus movies with a big theatrical launch). As he accepted the award, director James Jones referred to as out Putin, and praised the folks of Ukraine, whose territory consists of the Chernobyl nuclear plant.

“It’s a movie actually in regards to the type of horrific penalties of Kremlin lies, however it’s additionally a movie in regards to the power and resilience of the Ukrainian folks,” Jones stated from the rostrum. “And the movie ends with Ukraine gaining its independence and the Soviet Union collapsing, precisely what Putin is at the moment making an attempt to reverse and I assume [I] give the award to our contributors who’re in Ukraine or have fled because the battle began and have all been affected to various levels, some fairly straight and intensely.”

It was a serious evening for HBO Documentary Movies. It received for Chernobyl: The Misplaced Tapes, and its multi-parter Black and Lacking, directed by Geeta Gandbhir and Samantha Knowles, received Excellent Nonfiction Collection. HBO Documentary Movies additionally produced All That Breathes (together with Sideshow and Submarine Deluxe) and All of the Magnificence and the Bloodshed (together with Neon and Participant).

The Cinema Eye Honors acknowledge the perfect in nonfiction filmmaking, together with manufacturing, cinematography, enhancing and music composition. Tonight’s ceremony was held on the Museum of the Transferring Picture in Queens, New York.

That is the total record of winners:

16h Annual Cinema Eye Honors Winners | January 12, 2023

Excellent Achievement in Nonfiction Characteristic Filmmaking

All That Breathes

Directed and Produced by Shaunak Sen

Produced by Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer

Excellent Achievement in Route

All of the Magnificence and the Bloodshed

Laura Poitras

Excellent Achievement in Modifying

Fireplace of Love

Erin Casper and Jocelyne Chaput

Excellent Achievement in Cinematography

All That Breathes

Ben Bernhard and Riju Das

Excellent Achievement in Manufacturing

Navalny

Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris

Excellent Achievement in Unique Rating

Fireplace of Love

Nicolas Godin

Excellent Achievement in Sound Design

Moonage Daydream

Samir Foco, John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone

Excellent Achievement in Visible Design (tie)

Fireplace of Love

Lucy Munger, Kara Blake, and Rui Ting Ji

Moonage Daydream

Stefan Nadelman

Excellent Achievement in a Debut Characteristic Movie

The Territory

Directed by Alex Pritz

Viewers Selection Prize

Navalny

Directed by Daniel Roher

Excellent Achievement in Nonfiction Movie for Broadcast

Chernobyl: The Misplaced Tapes

Directed by James Jones | HBO Documentary Movies/HBO Max

Excellent Achievement in Nonfiction Collection

Black and Lacking

Directed by Geeta Gandbhir and Samantha Knowles | HBO Documentary Movies/HBO Max

Excellent Achievement in Anthology Collection

How To with John Wilson (Season Two)

Nathan Fielder, Michael Koman, Clark Reinking and John Wilson, Government Producers | HBO

Excellent Achievement in Modifying in a Nonfiction Movie or Collection for Broadcast

We Have to Discuss About Cosby

Meg Ramsay | Showtime

Excellent Achievement in Cinematography in a Nonfiction Movie or Collection for Broadcast

Enjoying With Sharks

Michael Taylor, Judd Overton, Nathan Barlow and Toby Ralph | Disney+

Excellent Achievement in Nonfiction Quick Filmmaking

Nuisance Bear

Directed by Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden

Legacy Award 

Crumb

Directed by Terry Zwigoff

Heterodox Award

Aftersun

Directed by Charlotte Wells

Highlight Award

Grasp of Gentle

Directed by Rosa Ruth Boesten