Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
- The Cove - Directed by Louie Psihoyos - Produced by Paula DuPre Pesman and Fisher Stevens . Award presented by AJ Schnack and Esther Robinson
Outstanding Achievement in Direction
- The Beaches Of Agnes - Agnès Varda, director. Award presented by Peter Davis, Academy Award-winning director of Hearts and Minds
Outstanding Achievement in Production
- The Cove - Paula DuPre Pesman and Fisher Stevens, producers. Award presented by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, directors of Trouble the Water
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
- The Cove - Brook Aitken. Award presented by Ellen Kuras, cinematographer and director of The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Outstanding Achievement in Editing
- Burma VJ - Janus Billeskov-Jansen and Thomas Papapetros. Award presented by Sloan Klevin, editor of Taxi To The Dark Side
Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation {Tie)
- Food, Inc. - The Team at Bigstar
- RIP: A Remix Manifesto - Francis Hanneman, Darren Pasemko, Kent Hugo, Omar Majeed, Brett Gaylor + The Open Source Cinema Community . Award presented by Bill Plympton
Oustanding Achievement in Original Musical Score
- October Country - Danny Grody, Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri and Kenric Taylor. Award presented by T. Griffen and Brandan Carty (Fugazi). This is a juried prize, and the members of the jury were: Natalia Almada, Laurie Anderson, Brendan Canty, T. Griffin and Craig Wedren
Outstanding Achievement in an International Feature Film
- Burma VJ - Directed by Anders Østergaard - Produced by Lise-Lense Møller . Award presented by Ross McElwee
Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film
- October Country - Directed by Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher . Award presented by Amir Bar-Lev, director of My Kid Could Paint That
Spotlight Award
- Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo - Directed by Jessica Oreck . This award, presented for the first time in 2010, is intended to focus attention on a film that has not yet received proper attention in the U.S. It is a juried award. The 2010 jury members were: Spotlight Jury: Pernille Rose Gronkjær, Jason Kohn, David Polonsky and Jennifer Venditti
The Legacy Award
- Sherman's March - Ross McElwee, director . Pesented for the first time in 2010, the Legacy Award recongized an outstanding documentary classic that has influenced documentary filmmakers and filmmaking. The award was presented by Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple.
Audience Choice Prize
- The September Issue - Directed by RJ Cutler . Award presented by Doug Block, director of 51 Birch Street
How The Winners Are Chosen
The process for selecting the awards began with a list nearly 100 feature length nonfiction films eligible in 2009. The nominees for all categories were selected by a panel of documentary programmers from 14 different film festivals in North America and Europe. More than 150 members of the documentary community - filmmakers, distributors, programmers and critics - voted for this year's Cinema Eye winners.
More About The Cinema Eye Awards
The Cinema Eye Awards are sponsored primarily by IndiePix, an important distributor of documentary films. In his speech to the audience at the award ceremony, IndiePix President Bob Alexander saluted documentary filmmakers, saying that they, through their work, reflect "the avrieties of human experience" and allow that variety to speak for itself and to be seen from manuy different points of friew and from many international perspectives." Alexander said that documentary film festivals such as IDFA, HotDocs, Sheffield Festival, Copenhagen's DocFest and others provide documentary filmmakers with homes around the world, but claimed that the Cinema Eye ceremony was their home for the evening of January 15, 2010.
