Documentary nominees take the deserved spotlight with 2012 non-fiction nominations unveiled by organizers of the Cinema Eye Honors Friday at AFI Fest with The Imposter and Searching for Sugar Man each receiving five nominations. Six films will compete for Cinema Eye’s Outstanding Achievement in Non-fiction Feature Filmmaking prize. Included are Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi’s 5 Broken Cameras , Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Detropia , Bart Layton’s The Imposter , Matthew Akers’ Marina Abramović The Artist is Present , Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims’ Only the Young and Malik Bendjelloul’s Searching for Sugar Man . The 6th Annual Cinema Eye Honors will take place January 9 as Cinema Eye at New York City’s Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking 5 Broken Cameras , directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi Produced by Christine Camdessus, Serge Gordey, Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi Detropia , directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady Produced by Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady and Craig Atkinson The Imposter , directed by Bart Layton Produced by Dimitri Doganis Marina Abramović The Artist is Present , directed by Matthew Akers; Produced by Jeff Dupre and Maro Chermayeff Only the Young , directed by Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims Produced by Derek Waters Searching for Sugar Man , directed by Malik Bendjelloul Produced by Simon Chinn Outstanding Achievement in Direction Detropia , Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady The Law in These Parts , Ra’anan Alexandrowicz Only the Young , Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims Planet of Snail , Seungjun Yi Tchoupitoulas , Bill Ross and Turner Ross ¡Vivan las Antipodas! , Victor Kossakovsky Outstanding Achievement in Production Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry , Alison Klayman and Adam Schlesinger Big Boys Gone Bananas!* , Margarete Jangård The Imposter , Dimitri Doganis Searching for Sugar Man , Simon Chinn ¡Vivan las Antipodas! , Heino Deckert Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography Chasing Ice , Jeffrey Orlowski The Imposter , Erik Alexander Wilson & Lynda Hall Only the Young , Jason Tippet & Elizabeth Mims Samsara , Ron Fricke ¡Vivan las Antipodas! , Victor Kossakovsky Outstanding Achievement in Editing 5 Broken Cameras , Véronique Lagoarde-Ségot & Guy Davidi Detropia , Enat Sidi How to Survive a Plague , T. Woody Richman, Tyler H. Walk & Jonathan Oppenheim Room 237 , Rodney Ascher Tchoupitoulas , Bill Ross Audience Choice Prize 5 Broken Cameras , directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi Beauty is Embarrassing , directed by Neil Berkeley Bully , directed by Lee Hirsch How to Survive a Plague , directed by David France The Imposter , directed by Bart Layton Jiro Dreams of Sushi , directed by David Gelb Kumaré , directed by Vikram Gandhi Marina Abramović The Artist is Present , directed by Matthew Akers Searching for Sugar Man , directed by Malik Bendjelloul Trash Dance directed by Andrew Garrison Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry , directed by Alison Klayman How to Survive a Plague , directed by David France Marina Abramović The Artist is Present , directed by Matthew Akers Only the Young , directed by Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims Room 237 , directed by Rodney Ascher Searching for Sugar Man , directed by Malik Bendjelloul The Waiting Room , directed by Peter Nicks Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score Detropia , Dial.81 The Imposter , Anna Nikitin Into the Abyss , Mark De Gli Antoni Room 237 , Jonathan Snipes, William Hutson, The Caretaker (James Kirby) ¡Vivan las Antipodas! , Alexander Popov Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design or Animation Beauty is Embarrassing , Neil Berkeley, Anthony Maiuri Herman’s House , Nicolas Brault, Tom Hillman Indie Game: The Movie , James Swirsky Room 237 , Carlos Ramos Searching for Sugar Man , Oskar Gullstrand, Arvid Steen Urbanized , Brooklyn Digital Foundry/John Szot Spotlight Award Argentinian Lesson , directed by Wojciech Staroń Bestiaire , directed by Denis Côté Downeast , directed by David Redmon and Ashley Sabin Meanwhile in Mamelodi , directed by Benjamin Kahlmeyer Vol Special (Special Flight) , directed by Fernand Melgar Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking Cutting Loose , directed by Finlay Pretsell and Adrian McDowall Family Nightmare , directed by Dustin Guy Defa Good Bye Mandima (Kwa Heri Mandima) , directed by Robert-Jan Lacombe Into the Middle of Nowhere , directed by Anna Francis Ewert Paradise (Paraíso), directed by Nadav Kurtz
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Cinema Eye Honors Fete 2012 Documentaries With 6th Annual Nominees
