Cinema Eye Honors, the group that “acknowledges excellent creative achievement in nonfiction and documentary movies and collection” has launched its nineteenth annual celebrations as we speak with the announcement of its first spherical of honorees, nominees, and longlists for 2026.
Amongst as we speak’s bulletins: the 16 movies on the Viewers Selection Prize Longlist, the disclosing of this 12 months’s Unforgettables Honorees, nominees in 5 Broadcast classes (which, full disclosure, this author serves on the nominating committees for), and the annual Shorts Checklist (which spotlights 10 of the 12 months’s high documentary quick movies).
The annual record of the Unforgettables — “the on-camera collaborators” from seven of the 12 months’s greatest docs — are the primary official honorees of the season and sometimes among the many most touching of your complete 12 months.
These winners embody Noam Shuster-Eliassi from Amber Fares’ “Coexistence, My Ass!”; Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley from Ryan White’s “Come See Me within the Good Mild”; Seymour Hersh from Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’ “Cowl-Up”; Sara Shahverdi from Sara Khaki and Mohammedreza Eyni’s “Reducing By means of Rocks”; Pasha Talankin from David Borenstein’s “Mr. No one In opposition to Putin”; Jacinda Ardern from Michelle Walsh and Lindsey Utz’s “Prime Minister”; and Fatma Hassouna from Sepideh Farsi’s “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Stroll.”
The honors for Andrea Gibson and Fatma Hassouna are each posthumous. Gibson, an American poet and activist, died in July after a battle with most cancers (that’s depicted within the movie). Hassouna, a Palestinian photojournalist and artist, was killed alongside 10 relations in an Israeli airstrike in April.
Elsewhere, as we speak’s record consists of Broadcast Movie and Sequence bulletins, with FX on Hulu’s “Social Research,” by director Lauren Greenfield, main with three nominations (Nonfiction Sequence, Broadcast Cinematography, and Broadcast Enhancing). Mariska Hargitay’s “My Mother Jayne” and Matt Wolf’s “Pee-Wee as Himself” each picked up two nominations, as did Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s “Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius),” Darius Clark Monroe’s “Dallas, 2019,” and Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim’s “Deaf President Now!”
“Deaf President Now!” additionally reveals up as one among 16 movies named to Cinema Eye’s annual Viewers Selection Prize Longlist, the place documentary followers and viewers from world wide solid their votes to find out this 12 months’s ten nominees and in the end the prize winner. The Longlist consists of a lot of this 12 months’s most acclaimed and talked about documentaries, together with “Apocalypse within the Tropics”; “Coexistence, My Ass!”; “Reducing By means of Rocks”; “The Eyes of Ghana”; “Folktales”; “It’s By no means Over, Jeff Buckley”; “The Librarians”; “Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore”; “Mr. No one In opposition to Putin”; “Orwell: 2+2=5”; “The Good Neighbor”; and “The Story of Silyan.”
The Viewers Selection Prize is commonly a key harbinger for future documentary awards, together with the Greatest Documentary Oscar. This 12 months’s Oscar winner, “No Different Land,” was on the Longlist and the earlier six Oscar winners have been all Viewers Selection nominees. Preliminary voting to find out this 12 months’s nominees will open on Tuesday, October 28.
Lastly, Cinema Eye additionally introduced the ten movies on this 12 months’s Shorts Checklist, the group’s annual record of semi-finalists for its Nonfiction Brief Movie Honor. Of these ten movies, six can be introduced because the official nominees. Final 12 months, 4 of the nominees (and the eventual winner) for the Oscar for Greatest Documentary Brief Movie have been a part of the Cinema Eye Shorts Checklist.
Cinema Eye will return to the historic New York Academy of Medication in East Harlem for its nineteenth Annual Awards Ceremony, to be held on Thursday, January 8, 2026.
A full record of this 12 months’s bulletins and nominees follows.
Unforgettables Honorees
Noam Shuster-Eliassi
Coexistence, My Ass!
Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley
Come See Me within the Good Mild
Seymour Hersh
Cowl-Up
Sara Shahverdi
Reducing By means of Rocks
Pasha Talankin
Mr. No one In opposition to Putin
Jacinda Ardern
Prime Minister
Fatma Hassouna
Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Stroll
Viewers Selection Prize Longlist
Apocalypse within the Tropics
Directed By Petra Costa
Coexistence, My Ass!
Directed By Amber Fares
Come See Me within the Good Mild
Directed By Ryan White
Cowl-Up
Directed By Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus
Reducing By means of Rocks
Directed By Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni
Deaf President Now!
Directed By Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
The Eyes of Ghana
Directed By Ben Proudfoot
Folktales
Directed By Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
It’s By no means Over, Jeff Buckley
Directed By Amy Berg
The Librarians
Directed By Kim A. Snyder
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
Directed By Shoshannah Stern
Mr. No one In opposition to Putin
Directed By David Borenstein
Orwell: 2+2=5
Directed By Raoul Peck
The Good Neighbor
Directed By Geeta Gandbhir
Prime Minister
Directed By Michelle Walsh and Lindsay Utz
The Story of Silyan
Directed By Tamara Kotevska
Broadcast Movie Nominees
Deaf President Now!
Directed by Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
Apple TV+
Democracy Noir
Directed by Connie Discipline
SWR / ARTE / DR
Enigma
Directed by Zackary Drucker
HBO | Max
My Mother Jayne
Directed by Mariska Hargitay
HBO | Max
Pee-wee as Himself
Directed by Matt Wolf
HBO | Max
Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
Directed by Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson
Hulu
Nonfiction Sequence Nominees
Chimp Loopy
Directed by Eric Goode
HBO | Max
{Couples} Remedy
Directed by Pax Wassermann
Paramount+
Dallas, 2019
Directed by Darius Clark Monroe
PBS/Impartial Lens
The Sing Sing Chronicles
Directed by Daybreak Porter
MSNBC
Social Research
Directed by Lauren Greenfield
FX on Hulu
The Stanford Jail Experiment: Unlocking the Fact
Directed by Juliette Eisner
Nationwide Geographic
Anthology Sequence Nominees
Conan O’Brien Should Go
Government Producers Conan O’Brien and Jeff Ross
HBO | Max
Harlem Ice
Government Producers Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Sara Bernstein, Justin Wilkes, Robin Roberts and Geeta Gandbhir
Disney+
Omnivore
Government Producers René Redzepi, Ben Liebmann, Chris Rice, Matt Goulding, Collin Orcutt and Mateo Willis
Apple TV+
Our Oceans
Government Producers Jonathan Smith and James Honeyborne
Netflix
SNL50: Past Saturday Evening
Government Producers Morgan Neville, Caitrin Rogers and Juaquin Cambron
Peacock
Tucci In Italy
Government Producers Stanley Tucci, Lottie Birmingham, Amanda Lyon and Simon Raikes
Nationwide Geographic
Broadcast Enhancing Nominees
Deaf President Now!
Edited by Michael Harte
Apple TV+
My Mother Jayne
Edited by JD Marlow
HBO | Max
Pee-wee as Himself
Edited by Damian Rodriguez
HBO | Max
Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
Edited by Joshua L. Pearson
Hulu
Social Research
Edited by Alyse Ardell Spiegel, Helen Kearns, Catherine Bull and Charles Little II
FX on Hulu
Clever Man: David Chase and The Sopranos
Edited by Andy Grieve
HBO | Max
Broadcast Cinematography Nominees
Chef’s Desk: Legends
Director of Images Will Basanta
Netflix
Dallas, 2019
Director of Images Christine Ng
PBS/Impartial Lens
No Style Like Dwelling with Antoni Porowski
Director of Images Steve Lidgerwood
Nationwide Geographic
Omnivore
Director of Images Tom Elliot, Sy Turnbull and Jurgen Lisse
Apple TV+
Our Oceans
Director of Images Roger Munns, Roger Horrocks, Justin Maguire, Ryan Tidman and Jamie McPherson
Netflix
Social Research
Director of Images Bryan Donnell, Jenna Rosher and Jerry Risius
FX on Hulu
Shorts Checklist
All The Empty Rooms
Directed by Joshua Seftel
Am I the skinniest individual you’ve ever seen?
Directed by Eisha Marjara
Armed Solely With a Digital camera: The Life and Demise of Brent Renaud
Directed by Brent Renaud and Craig Renaud
Crying Glacier
Directed by Lutz Stautner
The Satan is Busy
Directed by Geeta Gandbhir and Christalyn Hampton
The Lengthy Valley
Directed by Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck and Robert Machoian
Mama Micra
Directed by Rebecca Blöcher
completely a strangeness
Directed by Alison McAlpine
We Have been The Surroundings
Directed by Christopher Radcliff
Who Loves The Solar
Directed by Arshia Shakiba
