Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score :: The 2013 Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking

Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score
Whether reflecting the depth and emotion of its content and characters, propelling the film’s narrative forward, or playing counterpoint to the action upon the screen, musical scores play an essential role in the impact of a nonfiction film. This award celebrates those diverse musicians who used music to serve the film most beautifully and effectively. Previous winners in this category include Max Richter for WALTZ WITH BASHIR (2009), Danny Grody, Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri and Kenric Taylor for OCTOBER COUNTRY (2010), Norbert Möslang for THE SOUND OF INSECTS: RECORD OF A MUMMY (2011) and John Kusiak for TABLOID (2012)

¡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…

Room 237

Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film, Outstanding Achievement in Editing, Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation, Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score

Have you ever seen a hidden message? In 1980 Stanley Kubrick released his classic horror film, The Shining. Loved and hated by equal numbers, the film is considered a genre standard by many loyalists, while other viewers dismiss it as…

Into the Abyss

Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score

The murders in question occurred ten years ago in Texas and epitomized the word “senseless.” The convicted killers were two teenagers, Michael Perry and Jason Burkett, who had a history of substance abuse and violent bravado. The verdict was based…

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…

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…

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.