Awards season is heating up. Earier this week, nominations for the Critics Choice Documentary Awards dropped and now The Cinema Eye Honors is announcing its first round of noms for doc films and series.
Five titles are nominated for Broadcast Film, and two are helmed by women: “Downfall: The Case Against Boeing,” Rory Kennedy’s investigation into the world’s largest aerospace company, and “Playing with Sharks,” Sally Aitken’s tribute to marine conservationist Valerie Taylor.
Of six nominees for Nonfiction Series, four are directed or co-directed by women. Titles in the running include “Black and Missing,” Geeta Gandbhir and Samantha Knowles’ exploration of how systemic racism impacts missing persons cases, and another look