Awards season is heating up. Earier this week, nominations for the Critics Choice Documentary Awards dropped and now The Cinema Eye Honors is asserting its first spherical of noms for doc movies and sequence.
Five titles are nominated for Broadcast Film, and two are helmed by girls: “Downfall: The Case Against Boeing,” Rory Kennedy’s investigation into the world’s largest aerospace firm, and “Playing with Sharks,” Sally Aitken’s tribute to marine conservationist Valerie Taylor.
Of six nominees for Nonfiction Series, 4 are directed or co-directed by girls. Titles within the operating embrace “Black and Missing,” Geeta Gandbhir and Samantha Knowles’ exploration of how systemic racism impacts lacking individuals instances, and one other look contained in the felony justice system, “Mind Over Murder,” Nanfu Wang’s portrait of the Beatrice Six, who have been convicted within the rape and homicide of Helen Wilson and later exonerated by DNA proof. Also up for honors are Rachel Dretzin’s “Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey” and Julia Willoughby Nason and Jenner Furst’s “LulaRich.” The former tells the story of Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the latter pulls again the curtain on LuLaRoe’s clothes empire.
Head over to Deadline to take a look at an entire checklist of classes which have been introduced to this point. More nominations will observe. The Cinema Eye Honors will happen January 12.