Last year’s top two documentary titles from the Berlinale continue there winning ways landing the top prizes at last night’s Cinema Eye Honors. Docus that premiered at Sundance dominated the other major categories, with Soundtrack to a Coup d’État, Union, Sugarcane, and The Remarkable Life of Ibelin all taking home awards. As we creep up towards the Oscar noms date, No Other Land (they also took the Best Debut doc) and Dahomey are probable locks for the top five. Here are all the winners
Nonfiction Feature
“No Other Land,” Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning, Julius Pollux Rothlaender, and Bård Harazi Farbu
Direction
Mati Diop for “Dahomey”
Editing
Rik Chaubet for “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”
Production
Brett Story, Stephen Maing, Mars Verrone, Samantha Curley, and Martin DiCicco for “Union”
Cinematography
Christopher LaMarca and Emily Kassie for “Sugarcane”
Original Music Score
Uno Helmersson for “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin”
Sound Design
Ranko Pauković and Alek Goosse for “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”
Visual Design
Brendan Dawes for “Eno”
Audience Choice Prize
“Porcelain War,” Directed by Brendan Bellomo, and Slava Leontyev
Debut Feature
“No Other Land,” Directed by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel Szor
Unforgettables
Shiori Ito for “Black Box Diaries”
Brian Eno for “Eno”
Lhakpa Sherpa for “Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa”
Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra for “No Other Land”
Patrice Jetter for “Patrice: The Movie”
Genna Marvin for “Queendom”
Chris Smalls for “Union”
Harper Steele for “Will and Harper”
Nonfiction Short
“Incident,” Directed by Bill Morrison
Broadcast Film
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