Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography :: The 2013 Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking

Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
While it is a simple thing to turn on a camera, a rare few can refine lighting and camera movement to create exceptional imagery. This award celebrates the incredible skill that plays such an integral part in the shaping of a film. Previous winners in this category include Heloisa Passos for MANDA BALA (Send a Bullet) (2008), Peter Zeitlinger for ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (2009), Brook Aitken for THE COVE (2009), Lixin Fan for LAST TRAIN HOME (2011) and Danfung Dennis for HELL AND BACK AGAIN.

¡Vivan las Antipodas!

Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography, Outstanding Achievement in Direction, Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score, Outstanding Achievement in Production

As if Wallace Stevens and James Thurber kidnapped a David Attenborough film crew. Victor Kossakovsky’s thrillingly idiosyncratic yet substantial doc journeys to four sets of the Earth’s antipodes—the places you’d end up if you drilled directly through the planet to…

Samsara

Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography

Nearly two decades after the release of his entrancing last film, Baraka, acclaimed director and cinematographer Ron Fricke returns with this visually breathtaking cinematic meditation on the connections between humanity and nature. Filmed for over four years and in more…

Only the Young

Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film, Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography, Outstanding Achievement in Direction, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking

Garrison and Kevin live in a small desert town with nothing to do. In foreclosed homes and deserted underpasses they create their own fun and avoid the realities of being an adult. Skye is strong-willed, beautiful and wise beyond her…

The Imposter

Nominated for Audience Choice, Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking, Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score, Outstanding Achievement in Production

It’s 1994: a 13-year-old boy disappears from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three and a half years later, he is found alive, thousands of miles away, in Spain. Disoriented and quivering with fear, he divulges his shocking story of…

Chasing Ice

Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography

Photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In “Chasing Ice”, Balog deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras to capture a multi-year record of the world’s…

Cinema Eye Honors

The Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking recognize and honor exemplary craft and innovation in nonfiction film. Cinema Eye’s mission is to advocate for, recognize and promote the highest commitment to rigor and artistry in the nonfiction field.