Poh Si Teng’s American Doctor and Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can See Everything lead the nominations for the 20th annual Cinema Eye Honors with seven apiece. Joining them in Best Nonfiction Feature are My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile, Naza, Once Upon a Time in Harlem, Rehearsals for a Revolution, and To Hold a Mountain.
You Can See Everything, A24’s portrait of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, is the first film in Cinema Eye history nominated for Nonfiction Feature, Direction, Editing, Production, Cinematography, and Original Score. Cinema Eye’s top category also names key on-screen participants, so Holmes herself is a Nonfiction Feature nominee. So is Amanda Seyfried, who won an Emmy for playing Holmes in The Dropout and is now an Oscar contender for Best Supporting Actress.
American Doctor’s total includes Cinema Eye’s Unforgettables honor for its three on-screen surgeons, Dr. Thaer Ahmad, Dr. Mark Perlmutter, and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, which was announced in October. Sara Dosa’s Time and Water follows with six nominations. Naza, the new film from No Other Land filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, earned five. Poh Si Teng is the most nominated individual this year with five nods.
The winners will be revealed Jan. 11, 2027, at the Times Center in New York City. See the full list of nominees below.
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
American Doctor — Poh Si Teng, Kirstine Barfod, Reem Haddad, Chris Rentaria, Ibrahim Al Otla, Ramzy Haddad, Christopher White, Ema Ryan Yamazaki, Suad Bushnaq, Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen, Patrick Svaneberg Vejen, Jacob Langkjær Davidsen, Dr. Thaer Ahmad, Dr. Mark Perlmutter, and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile — Julia Loktev, Michael Taylor, Anna Nemzer, Ksenia Mironova, Elena Kostyuchenko, and Valeria Ratnikova
Naza — Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Harry Davies, Robert Farr, and Anonymous
Once Upon a Time in Harlem — William Greaves, David Greaves, Liani Greaves, Anne de Mare, Tamar-kali, Clive Davidson, Roland Mitchell, Mike Frank, Matthew J. Hoffman, and Bella Racklin
Rehearsals for a Revolution — Pegah Ahangarani, Kaveh Farnam, Adria Mones, Arash Ashtiani, Neda Mohseni, and Dani Zacarias
To Hold a Mountain — Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić, Quentin Laurent, Rok Bicek, Eva Kraljević, George Cragg, Draško Adžić, Julij Zornik, Samo Jurca, Mileva Gara Jovanović, and Nada Stanišić
You Can See Everything — Nathan Fielder, Lance Oppenheim, Tatiana Bears, Maggie Ambrose, Jack Davis, David Bolen, Adam Locke-Norton, Ari Balouzian, Richard Carlos, Paul Hsu, Elizabeth Holmes, Billy Evans, and Amanda Seyfried
Outstanding Achievement in Direction
American Doctor — Poh Si Teng
Closure — Michal Marczak
The History of Concrete — John Wilson
Naza — Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
Rehearsals for a Revolution — Pegah Ahangarani
Time and Water — Sara Dosa
You Can See Everything — Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim
Outstanding Achievement in Editing
The Bend in the River — Jeff Malmberg
Everybody to Kenmure Street — Colin Monie
Once Upon a Time in Harlem — Anne de Mare and Lynn True
Remake — Ross McElwee and Joe Bini
Time and Water — Erin Casper, Jocelyne Chaput, and Mark Harrison
You Can See Everything — Adam Locke-Norton
Outstanding Achievement in Production
American Doctor — Poh Si Teng, Kirstine Barfod, and Reem Haddad
Everest: The Other Side — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Shannon Dill, Anna Barnes, and Bob Eisenhardt
Musk — Jessie Deeter, Erin Edeiken, and Alex Gibney
My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile — Julia Loktev
Naza — Nominees to be determined
You Can See Everything — Nathan Fielder, Lance Oppenheim, Tatiana Bears, Maggie Ambrose, and Jack Davis
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
Bucks Harbor — Nathan Golon, Pete Muller, and Mark Unger
Closure — Michal Marczak
Everest: The Other Side — Clair Popkin, Jimmy Chin, and Christopher Murphy
The Great Experiment — Stephen Maing and Eric Daniel Metzgar
To Hold a Mountain — Eva Kraljević
You Can See Everything — David Bolen
Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score
American Doctor — Suad Bushnaq
Musk — Daniel Pemberton
Nuisance Bear — Cristóbal Tapia De Veer
The Oldest Person in the World — William Ryan Fritch and T. Griffin
Time and Water — Dan Deacon
You Can See Everything — Ari Balouzian
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design
Barbara Forever — Gisela Fulla Silvestre and Eli Cohn
Closure — Katarzyna Szczerba and Konrad Błaszczyk
Naza — Robert Farr
Nuisance Bear — David Rose, Lou Solakofski, and Reid Goobie
The Oldest Person in the World — Mark Mangini
Time and Water — Björn Viktorsson, Atli Arnarsson, and Jón Atli Magnússon
Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design
14th — Will Hodgson
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist — Philip Eddolls, Michael Enzbrunner, and Aisha Ghali
A Fox Under a Pink Moon — Mohammad Lotfali
Jean-Michel Basquiat — Anthony Konigbagbe, Yibi Hu, and Daisy Evans
Musk — Nominees to be determined
Time and Water — Lucy Munger
Outstanding Achievement in Archival Artistry
Barbara Forever — Brydie O’Connor
Jean-Michel Basquiat — Wyatt Stone, Viridiana Lieberman, and Rebecca Adorno Dávila
Nova ’78 — Paula Vaccaro, Aaron Brookner, and Tomas Baltazar
Once Upon a Time in Harlem — Anne de Mare, Lynn True, Matthew J. Hoffman, and Bella Racklin
Rehearsals for a Revolution — Arash Ashtiani
Soul Patrol — Helen Macgowan, Byron Leon, Niles Howard, and Gabriela Tessitore
Outstanding Achievement in Debut Feature Filmmaking
American Doctor — Poh Si Teng
Barbara Forever — Brydie O’Connor
Bucks Harbor — Pete Muller
The History of Concrete — John Wilson
Nuisance Bear — Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden
Spotlight Award
Jaripeo — Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig
Joybubbles — Rachael J. Morrison
My NDA — Juliane Dressner and Miriam Shor
TheyDream — William D. Caballero
The Whole World Is a Lie — Charlie Birns
Wood Street — Caron Creighton
Heterodox Award
Blue Heron — Sophy Romvari
A Child of My Own — Maite Alberdi
Dao — Alain Gomis
I Heard That They Are Not Going to See Each Other Anymore — Ka Ki Wong
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie — Matt Johnson
Whispers in May — Dongnan Chen
Audience Choice Prize
American Doctor — Poh Si Teng
Cookie Queens — Alysa Nahmias
The Cycle of Love — Orlando von Einsiedel
Everest: The Other Side — Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Naza — Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
The Oldest Person in the World — Sam Green
Steal This Story, Please! — Carl Deal and Tia Lessin
Time and Water — Sara Dosa
Wild Inside — Penny Lane
You Can See Everything — Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim
Unforgettables (previously announced)
Dr. Thaer Ahmad, Dr. Mark Perlmutter, and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, American Doctor
E. Jean Carroll, Ask E. Jean
Soraya Akhlaghi, A Fox Under a Pink Moon
Billie Jean King, Give Me the Ball
Israa, One in a Million
Amy Goodman, Steal This Story, Please!
Nonfiction Shorts List (previously announced; nominees announced in December)
“The Boys and the Bees” — Arielle Knight
“Buckskin” — Mars Verrone
“A Derailment” — Nathan Truesdell
“Free Joan Little” — Yoruba Richen
“I Got My Brother” — Victor Gabriel
“An Open Field” — Teboho Edkins
“Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon” — Bill Morrison
“They’re Here” — Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller
“La Tierra del Valor (The Home of the Brave)” — Cristina Costantini
“Water Cooler” — Emma V.F.
Outstanding Achievement in Broadcast Film (previously announced)
Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story — Jyllian Gunther and Stephanie Schwam (HBO Max)
The Bitter Pill — Clay Tweel (POV)
Critical Incident: Death at the Border — Richard Rowley (HBO Max)
Earth, Wind & Fire: To Be Celestial vs. That’s the Weight of the World — Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (HBO Max)
Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television — Giselle Bailey and Phil Bertelsen (HBO Max)
Songs From the Hole — Contessa Gayles (Netflix)
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Series (previously announced)
High Horse: The Black Cowboy — Jason Perez (Peacock)
Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time — Traci A. Curry (National Geographic)
Katrina: Come Hell and High Water — Geeta Gandbhir, Samantha Knowles, and Spike Lee (Netflix)
Mr. Scorsese — Rebecca Miller (Apple TV)
Trust Me: The False Prophet — Rachel Dretzin (Netflix)
The Yogurt Shop Murders — Margaret Brown (HBO Max)
Outstanding Achievement in Anthology Series (previously announced)
Limitless: Live Better Now (Season 2) — Darren Aronofsky, Jane Root, Ari Handel, Tom Watt-Smith, Chris Hemsworth, and Benjamin Grayson (Disney+)
Neighbors — Ronald Bronstein, Eli Bush, Josh Safdie, Harrison Fishman, Dylan Redford, and Samuel Fishman (HBO Max)
Trainwreck — Sheun Adelasoye de Nicola, Alexander Marengo, and Tim Wardle (Netflix)
Tucci in Italy (Season 2) — Stanley Tucci, Lottie Birmingham, Amanda Lyon, and Simon Raikes (National Geographic)
Untold (Volume 6) — Ben Silverman, Howard Owens, Isabel San Vargas, Chapman Way, Maclain Way, and Ryan Duffy (Netflix)
Outstanding Achievement in Broadcast Editing (previously announced)
#Skyking — Emiliano Battista and Alexis Johnson (Hulu)
Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story — Jeremy Stulberg (HBO Max)
Breakdown: 1975 — Alan Lowe and Jody McVeigh-Schultz (Netflix)
Earth, Wind & Fire: To Be Celestial vs. That’s the Weight of the World — Andrew Morrow, Matt Cascella, and Tim Ziegler (HBO Max)
Katrina: Come Hell and High Water — Arielle Amsalem and Anna Auster (Netflix)
Mr. Scorsese — David Barter (Apple TV)
Outstanding Achievement in Broadcast Cinematography (previously announced)
Caught in the Crackdown — Timothy Grucza, Jeremy Gould, Nick Kraus, Kevin McKeever, and Jeff Perlman (Frontline/PBS/ProPublica)
High Horse: The Black Cowboy — Jerry Henry and Justin Janowitz (Peacock)
The Man Will Burn — Benji Lanpher, Chris Darnell, Neil Fernandez, Consuelo Althouse, and Natalie Sims (HBO Max)
Songs From the Hole — Michelle Kwong and Contessa Gayles (Netflix)
Tucci in Italy (Season 2) — Matt Ball (National Geographic)
The Yogurt Shop Murders — Justin Zweifach (HBO Max)
