The yr’s finest nonfiction filmmaking on the large display screen and TV reveals had been awarded on the New York Academy of Drugs in East Harlem on Thursday, January 8 — on the nineteenth annual Cinema Eye Honors.
The 2026 Cinema Eye Honors, comprised of a voting physique of greater than 800 documentary movie consultants, gave high honors to Ryan White’s Apple documentary “Come See Me within the Good Gentle,” which follows poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley as they face Gibson’s most cancers journey. It received Excellent Nonfiction Function, Unique Music Rating, and Unforgettables Honors (the equal of profession or life achievement) for Gibson and Falley.
That movie is on the Oscar shortlist for Finest Documentary Function. Two different high-profile candidates, “The Excellent Neighbor” and “Seeds,” took two honors every. Geeta Gandbhir’s Netflix-acquired documentary “The Excellent Neighbor” — which makes use of the true-crime format as a bait-and-switch to lure audiences right into a extra probing examination of injustices in our police system — received Excellent Path for Gandbhir and Excellent Enhancing for Viridiana Lieberman. “Seeds,” a documentary about Black farmers within the South that premiered on the 2025 Sundance Movie Pageant, took the prizes for Debut Function and Cinematography for Brittany Shyne.
There was a tie for Excellent Manufacturing, with two Oscar contenders, “The Alabama Resolution” and “Apocalypse within the Tropics,” each honored. Different Oscar contenders abound on the checklist, from documentary brief movie shortlister “All of the Empty Rooms” to “Chopping by way of Rocks,” about an Iranian girl elected to council in her rural village. However not “The Story of Silyan,” which received the viewers award from Cinema Eye Honors however was left off the Oscar shortlist.
See the total checklist of winners throughout movie and TV from Cinema Eye Honors beneath.
Function
“Come See Me within the Good Gentle”
Ryan White, Jessica Hargrave, Tig Notaro, Stef Willen, Brandon Somerhalder, Berenice
Chávez, Blake Neely, Dave Richards, Brent Kiser, Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley
Path
Geeta Gandbhir
“The Excellent Neighbor”
Enhancing
Viridiana Lieberman
“The Excellent Neighbor”
Manufacturing
(tie)
Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman
“The Alabama Resolution”
and
Petra Costa and Alessandra Orofino
“Apocalypse within the Tropics”
Cinematography
Brittany Shyne
“Seeds”
Unique Music Rating
Blake Neely
“Come See Me within the Good Gentle”
Sound Design
James LeBrecht, Greg Francis and Nina Hartstone
“Deaf President Now!”
Visible Design
Sara Gunnarsdóttir, Josh Shaffner and Kevin Eskew
“It’s By no means Over, Jeff Buckley”
Debut
“Seeds”
Directed By Brittany Shyne
Viewers Alternative Prize
“The Story of Silyan”
Directed By Tamara Kotevska
Nonfiction Quick
“All of the Empty Rooms”
Directed by Joshua Seftel
Highlight Award
“To the West, in Zapata”
Directed By David Bim
Heterodox Award
“The Voice of Hind Rajab”
Directed By Kaouther Ben Hania
Unforgettables Honorees
Noam Shuster-Eliassi
“Coexistence, My Ass!”
Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley
“Come See Me within the Good Gentle”
Seymour Hersh
“Cowl-Up”
Sara Shahverdi
“Chopping By means of Rocks”
Pavel Talankin
“Mr. No one In opposition to Putin”
Jacinda Ardern
“Prime Minister”
Fatma Hassona
“Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Stroll”
Broadcast Movie
“Pee-wee as Himself”
Directed by Matt Wolf
HBO | Max
Nonfiction Sequence
“Social Research”
Directed by Lauren Greenfield
FX on Hulu
Anthology Sequence
“Conan O’Brien Should Go”
Government Producers Conan O’Brien and Jeff Ross
HBO | Max
Broadcast Enhancing
“Social Research”
Edited by Alyse Ardell Spiegel, Helen Kearns, Catherine Bull and Charles Little II
FX on Hulu
Broadcast Cinematography
“Omnivore”
Director of Images Tom Elliott, Sy Turnbull and Jurgen Lisse
Apple TV+
