J. Kim Murphy The Oscar-nominated “Flee” took home the top prize at the 15th annual Cinema Eye Honors on Tuesday evening at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York.Going into the evening, Neon and Participant Media’s “Flee” led the field with a total of seven nominations, while “Summer of Soul (…Or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” followed with six.Filmmaker Cheryl Dunye also received the organization’s legacy award during the ceremony.
The director was honored for her landmark 1996 independent feature “The Watermelon Woman.” After accepting the legacy award on stage, Dunye presented the category of audience choice prize.See the full list of film winners and nominees below. “Ascension” (Directed and produced by Jessica Kingdon, produced by Kira Simon-Kennedy and Nathan Truesdell)“Faya Dayi” (Directed and produced by Jessica Beshir)“Flee” (Directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, produced by Monica Hellström and Signe Byrge Sorensen) (WINNER)“The Rescue” (Directed and produced by E.
Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, produced by P.J. van Sandwjik and John Battsek)“Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” (Directed by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, produced by Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein)“The Velvet Underground” (Directed and produced by Todd Haynes, produced by Christine Vachon, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn)“Ascension”“Faya Dayi”“Flee”“In the Same Breath”“Procession” (WINNER)“Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)”“Homeroom”“The Rescue”“Roadrunner: A Film about Anthony Bourdain”“Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” (WINNER)“The Velvet Underground”“The First Wave” (WINNER)“Flee”“In the Same.
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