“All That Breathes,” a documentary about two brothers who run a shelter for birds injured by pollution in New Delhi, has been named the best nonfiction film of 2022 at the 16th annual Cinema Eye Honors ceremony. Thursday night at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, New York.
“All That Breathes” previously won the top prize at the International Documentary Association’s IDA Documentary Awards, the other major award dedicated to nonfiction film. It is also on the 15-film shortlist for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Laura Poitras won the award for directing “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”, while “Navalny” won the award for production.
In the craft categories, a typical feature of the Cinema I Honors, the immersive David Bowie film “Moonage Daydream” won awards for sound design and visual design in the latter category, along with Sarah Dossa’s “Fire of Love”. Dosa’s film also won awards for its music by composer Nicolas Godin and for editors Erin Kasper and Jocelyn Chaput. ‘All That Breathes’ won the award for cinematography.
Other winners included “The Territory” for Outstanding Debut, “Master of Light” with the Spotlight Award for an undersea film, and “Aftersun” with the Heterodox Award, which goes to a film that straddles the lines between fiction and nonfiction. blurs the
“Nussense Bear” won the award for nonfiction short, while “Navalny” won the audience’s choice award.
Television categories include “Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes” for broadcast film, “Black and the Missing” for non-fiction series, “How to With John Wilson” for anthology series, “We Need to Talk About Cosby” for editing were the winners. Cinematography for “Playing with Sharks”.
Cinema Eye was founded in 2007 to honor all aspects of nonfiction filmmaking. Its awards are voted on by more than 800 filmmakers, distributors, programmers and curators, writers, critics and others in the documentary community. (Full disclosure: I’m a voter.)
Cinema Eye winners do not usually match Oscars for documentary features; The two groups agreed with “American Factory” in 2020 and three times in the 12 years before that. But more often than not, especially in recent years as the Academy’s documentary branch has grown and become more adventurous, Cinema Eye winners have been nominated for at least one Doctor Oscar.
List of winners:
Outstanding Nonfiction Feature: “all that breathes”
Directed and Produced by Shaunak Sen
Produced by Aman Mann & Teddy Leaf
awesome direction: “All Beauty and Bloodshed”
Laura Poitras, Director
excellent editing: “The Fire of Love”
Erin Casper and Jocelyn Chaput, Editors
production balance: “Navalni”
Odessa Rae, Diane Baker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris, Producers
excellent cinematography: “all that breathes”
Ben Bernhard and Riju Das, Cinematographers
excellent original score: “The Fire of Love”
Nicolas Godin, composer
excellent sound design: “Moonage Daydream”
Samir Foko, John Warhurst and Nina Heartstone, Sound Designers
excellent visual design: (tie)
“The Fire of Love”
Lucy Munger, Animation; Kara Blake, graphic artist; and Rui Ting Jie, hand-drawn animation and illustrations
“Moonage Daydream”
Stephen Nadelman, Animation
excellent debut: “region”
directed by Alex Pritz
outstanding broadcast film: “Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes”
directed by james jones
Outstanding Nonfiction Series: “Black and Missing”
Directed by Geeta Gandhibir and Samantha Knowles
excellent anthology series: “How To With John Wilson” (Season Two)
Nathan Fielder, Michael Koman, Clark Reinking and John Wilson
excellent broadcast editing: “We need to talk about Cosby”
Meg Ramsay, Editor
excellent broadcast cinematography: “playing with the sharks”
Michael Taylor, Judd Overton, Nathan Barlow and Toby Ralph, Cinematographers
Outstanding Nonfiction Short: “nuisance bear”
directed by Jack Weisman and Gabriella Osio Vanden
Viewers Choice Award: “Navalni”
directed by Daniel Rohr
the limelight: “Master of Light”
directed by Rosa Ruth Boesten
Heretic: “after noon”
directed by Charlotte Wells
Unforgettable (non-competitive honours):
“All That Breathes,” Mohammed Saud and Nadeem Shahzad
“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” Nan Goldin
“Bad Axe,” Chun Siw
“Beba,” Rebecca Hunt
“The Fire of Love,” Katya and Maurice Kraft
Gabby Giffords “Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down.”
“I Didn’t See You There,” Reed Davenport
“In Her Hands,” Zarifa Ghaffari
“Last Flight Home,” Eli Timoner
“Mija,” Doris Munoz
“My Old School,” Brandon Lee
“Navalny,” Alexey Navalny
“Nothing Compares,” Sinead O’Connor
“Senior,” Robert Downey Sr.
“The Territory”, Bitete Uru-U-Wau-Wau and Nidinha Bandeira
Heritage Award: “piece”
directed by Terry Zwigoff
Produced by Lynn O’Donnell and Terry Zwigoff
Edited by Victor Livingston
Cinematography by Maris Alberti
Music by David Bedinghaus
Sound by Scott Breindel
