Cinema Eye Honors has at this time revealed its packed slate of Characteristic Movie nominations for its nineteenth annual awards celebrations. Ryan White’s stirring “Come See Me within the Good Mild,” which follows poet and activist Andrea Gibson and their spouse Megan Falley after Gibson is recognized with terminal ovarian most cancers, led all movies with six nominations, together with Excellent Nonfiction Characteristic, Path, and Unforgettable Honors for Gibson and Falley. (Simply yesterday, White was introduced as considered one of our IndieWire Honors honorees for this yr.)
Various movies, together with Mstyslav Chernov’s “2000 Meters to Andriivka,” Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’ “Cowl-Up,” Albert Serra’s “Afternoons of Solitude,” Geeta Gandbhir’s “The Excellent Neighbor,” and Brittany Shyne’s “Seeds,” had been additionally nominated for Excellent Characteristic and Path, with every movie receiving 5 nominations. Final week, Gandbhir’s movie made main waves because it swept the Critics Selection Documentary Awards on Sunday night.
Some enjoyable info out of at this time’s nods: Poitras’ three nods for “Cowl-Up” (she can also be up for Excellent Enhancing) make her probably the most nominated particular person in Cinema Eye historical past, with 16 nominations whole (she has gained 5 Honors, together with three for Excellent Path). At this yr’s ceremony, Brittany Shyne would be the most nominated particular person of the occasion, with 4 nominations (Characteristic, Path, Cinematography, and Debut) for “Seeds.” And, Gandbhir made historical past at this time with recognition for 3 totally different initiatives throughout Characteristic Movie, Quick Movie, and Broadcast classes.
After a primary spherical of voting that noticed nonfiction followers from around the globe forged greater than 60,000 votes for his or her favourite movies, the Viewers Selection nominees had been additionally introduced: “Apocalypse within the Tropics,” “Coexistence, My Ass!,” “Come See Me within the Good Mild,” “The Eyes of Ghana,” “It’s By no means Over, Jeff Buckley,” “The Librarians,” “Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore,” “Mr. No one In opposition to Putin,” “Prime Minister,” and “The Story of Silyan.”
Final month, Cinema Eye Honors introduced the 16 movies on the Viewers Selection Prize Longlist, the disclosing of this yr’s Unforgettables Honorees, nominees in 5 Broadcast classes (which, full disclosure, this author serves on the nominating committees for), and the annual Shorts Listing (which spotlights 10 of the yr’s prime documentary quick movies).
“Come See Me within the Good Mild” topics Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley had been included within the Unforgettables lineup, which spotlights “the on-camera collaborators” from seven of the yr’s finest docs.
Cinema Eye will return to the historic New York Academy of Medication in East Harlem for its nineteenth Annual Awards Ceremony, scheduled for Thursday, January 8, 2026. Nominees within the classes of Nonfiction Quick Movie and the Heterodox Award, together with this yr’s Legacy Award recipient, might be introduced in December.
A full checklist of at this time’s nominees follows:
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson-Rath, Alex Babenko and Sam Slater
Afternoons of Solitude
Albert Serra, Montse Triola, Luis Ferrón, Pedro Palacios, Artur Tort, Mac Verdaguer and Jordi Ribas
Come See Me within the Good Mild
Ryan White, Jessica Hargrave, Tig Notaro, Stef Willen, Brandon Somerhalder, Berenice Chávez, Blake Neely, Dave Richards, Brent Kiser, Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley
Cowl-Up
Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus, Yoni Golijov, Olivia Streisand, Mia Cioffi Henry, Amy Foote, Peter Bowman, Maya Shenfeld and Seymour Hersh
The Excellent Neighbor
Geeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne, Nikon Kwantu, Sam Bisbee, Viridiana Lieberman, Laura Heinzinger and Felipe Messeder
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Stroll
Sepideh Farsi, Javad Djavahery, Fatma Hassona, Cinna Peyghamy and Pierre Carrasco
Seeds
Brittany Shyne, Danielle Varga, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon, Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Daniel Timmons, Ben Kruse, and Willie Head Jr.
Mstyslav Chernov
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Albert Serra
Afternoons of Solitude
Ryan White
Come See Me within the Good Mild
Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus
Cowl-Up
Geeta Gandbhir
The Excellent Neighbor
David Osit
Predators
Brittany Shyne
Seeds
Michelle Mizner
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Amy Foote, Peter Bowman, and Laura Poitras
Cowl-Up
Alexander Kashcheev
I Am Not Every thing I Wish to Be
Julia Loktev and Michael Taylor
My Undesirable Pals: Half 1 – Final Air in Moscow
Alexandra Strauss
Orwell: 2+2=5
Viridiana Lieberman
The Excellent Neighbor
Stephan Krumbiegel, Olaf Voigtländer and Alfredo Castro
Riefenstahl
Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner and Raney Aronson-Rath
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman
The Alabama Answer
James Jones
Antidote
Petra Costa and Alessandra Orofino
Apocalypse within the Tropics
Helle Faber
Mr. No one In opposition to Putin
Julia Loktev
My Undesirable Pals: Half 1 – Final Air in Moscow
Artur Tort
Afternoons of Solitude
Ben Bernhard
Architecton
Brandon Somerhalder
Come See Me within the Good Mild
Lars Erlend Tubaas Øymo and Tor Edvin Eliassen
Folktales
Brittany Shyne
Seeds
Jean Dakar
The Story of Silyan
Sam Slater
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Blake Neely
Come See Me within the Good Mild
Maya Shenfeld
Cowl-Up
Kris Bowers
The Eyes of Ghana
Todd Griffin
Folktales
Alexeï Aïgui
Orwell: 2+2=5
Alexander Dudarev
Architecton
James LeBrecht, Greg Francis and Nina Hartstone
Deaf President Now!
Andreas Lindberg Svensson
Folktales
Bonnie Wild
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
Sean Ono Lennon, Sam Gannon and Simon Hilton
One to One: John and Yoko
Daniel Timmons and Ben Kruse
Seeds
Nominees To Be Decided
Ghost Boy
Nominees To Be Decided
In Waves and Conflict
Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Josh Shaffner
It’s By no means Over, Jeff Buckley
Norn Jordan
The New Yorker at 100
Joseph Midthun
Swamp Dogg Will get His Pool Painted
Nominees To Be Decided
Zodiac Killer Undertaking
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
Directed By Shoshannah Stern
Monk in Items
Directed By Billy Shebar and David C. Roberts
Remaining Native
Directed By Paige Bethmann
Seeds
Directed By Brittany Shyne
The Shepherd and the Bear
Directed By Max Keegan
Swamp Dogg Will get His Pool Painted
Directed By Isaac Gale and Ryan Olson
All the time
Directed By Deming Chen
The Encampments
Directed By Michael T Workman and Kei Pritsker
Flophouse America
Directed By Monica Strømdahl
Sanatorium
Directed By Gar O’Rourke
To the West, in Zapata
Directed By David Bim
Apocalypse within the Tropics
Directed By Petra Costa
Coexistence, My Ass!
Directed By Amber Fares
Come See Me within the Good Mild
Directed By Ryan White
The Eyes of Ghana
Directed By Ben Proudfoot
It’s By no means Over, Jeff Buckley
Directed By Amy Berg
The Librarians
Directed By Kim A. Snyder
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
Directed By Shoshannah Stern
Mr. No one In opposition to Putin
Directed By David Borenstein
Prime Minister
Directed By Michelle Walsh and Lindsay Utz
The Story of Silyan
Directed By Tamara Kotevska
Cowl-Up
Directed By Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus
Reducing By means of Rocks
Directed By Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni
Deaf President Now!
Directed By Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
Folktales
Directed By Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
Orwell: 2+2=5
Directed By Raoul Peck
The Excellent Neighbor
Directed By Geeta Gandbhir
All The Empty Rooms
Directed by Joshua Seftel
Am I the skinniest particular person you’ve ever seen?
Directed by Eisha Marjara
Armed Solely With a Digicam: The Life and Dying of Brent Renaud
Directed by Brent Renaud and Craig Renaud
Crying Glacier
Directed by Lutz Stautner
The Satan is Busy
Directed by Geeta Gandbhir and Christalyn Hampton
The Lengthy Valley
Directed by Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck and Robert Machoian
Mama Micra
Directed by Rebecca Blöcher
completely a strangeness
Directed by Alison McAlpine
We Have been The Surroundings
Directed by Christopher Radcliff
Who Loves The Solar
Directed by Arshia Shakiba
Deaf President Now!
Directed by Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
Apple TV+
Democracy Noir
Directed by Connie Area
SWR / ARTE / DR
Enigma
Directed by Zackary Drucker
HBO | Max
My Mother Jayne
Directed by Mariska Hargitay
HBO | Max
Pee-wee as Himself
Directed by Matt Wolf
HBO | Max
Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
Directed by Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson
Hulu, Onyx Collective
Chimp Loopy
Directed by Eric Goode
HBO | Max
{Couples} Remedy
Directed by Pax Wassermann and Bennett Elliott
Paramount+
Dallas, 2019
Directed by Darius Clark Monroe
PBS/Impartial Lens
The Sing Sing Chronicles
Directed by Daybreak Porter
MSNBC
Social Research
Directed by Lauren Greenfield
FX on Hulu
The Stanford Jail Experiment: Unlocking the Reality
Directed by Juliette Eisner
Nationwide Geographic
Conan O’Brien Should Go
Govt Producers Conan O’Brien and Jeff Ross
HBO | Max
Harlem Ice
Govt Producers Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Sara Bernstein, Justin Wilkes, Robin Roberts and Geeta Gandbhir
Disney+
Omnivore
Govt Producers René Redzepi, Ben Liebmann, Chris Rice, Matt Goulding, Collin Orcutt and Mateo Willis
Apple TV+
Our Oceans
Govt Producers Jonathan Smith and James Honeyborne
Netflix
SNL50: Past Saturday Evening
Govt Producers Morgan Neville, Caitrin Rogers and Juaquin Cambron
Peacock
Tucci In Italy
Govt Producers Stanley Tucci, Lottie Birmingham, Amanda Lyon and Simon Raikes
Nationwide Geographic
Deaf President Now!
Edited by Michael Harte
Apple TV+
My Mother Jayne
Edited by JD Marlow
HBO | Max
Pee-wee as Himself
Edited by Damian Rodriguez
HBO | Max
Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
Edited by Joshua L. Pearson
Hulu
Social Research
Edited by Alyse Ardell Spiegel, Helen Kearns, Catherine Bull and Charles Little II
FX on Hulu
Clever Man: David Chase and The Sopranos
Edited by Andy Grieve
HBO | Max
Chef’s Desk: Legends
Director of Pictures Will Basanta
Netflix
Dallas, 2019
Director of Pictures Christine Ng
PBS/Impartial Lens
No Style Like House with Antoni Porowski
Director of Pictures Steve Lidgerwood
Nationwide Geographic
Omnivore
Director of Pictures Tom Elliott, Sy Turnbull and Jurgen Lisse
Apple TV+
Our Oceans
Director of Pictures Roger Munns, Roger Horrocks, Justin Maguire, Ryan Tidman and Jamie McPherson
Netflix
Social Research
Director of Pictures Bryan Donnell, Jenna Rosher and Jerry Risius
FX on Hulu
