Cinema Eye Honors: ‘Girls State’, ‘Ren Faire’ Lead Broadcast Nominees; Audience Choice Award Longlist Revealed

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.

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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

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