Outstanding Achievement in Direction 

This award celebrates the artist’s vision fully realized from page to screen and films that reveal an auteur’s hand. Previous winners in this category include Alex Gibney for TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE (2008), Ari Folman for WALTZ WITH BASHIR (2009), Agnès Varda for THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS (2010), Laura Poitras for THE OATH (2011) and Steve James for THE INTERRUPTERS (2012).

¡Vivan las Antipodas!

¡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…

Tchoupitoulas

Tchoupitoulas

Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Direction, Outstanding Achievement in Editing

Late one night three teenage boys sneak out of the house and take the ferry across the water to embark upon a clandestine adventure through the French Quarter in New Orleans. We participate in their wonderment as they begin a…

Planet of Snail

Planet of Snail

Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Direction

Young-Chan is a dreamer, who spends most of his life reading and writing. Deaf and blind since childhood, Young-Chan’s fingertips constantly skim his braille keyboard, through which he studies and exercises his literary ambitions. His lifeline to the outside world…

Only the Young

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 Law in These Parts

The Law in These Parts

Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Direction

When Israel conquered the territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the 1967 war, they were ready to go. For months they’d had a new system of laws drawn up, and stored in lawyers’ briefcases, for the moment…

Detropia

Detropia

Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Direction, Outstanding Achievement in Editing, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking, Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score

Once a place symbolic of the American Dream, Detroit has been hard hit by the economic downturn. Detroit natives would say “downturn” is an understatement; they’re facing all-out depression. The Academy Award-nominated duo Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady create an…

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2013 Ceremony

The 2013 Cinema Eye Honors will be held January 9, 2013 at New York City’s Museum of the Moving Image