Sam Green‘s 32 Sounds took the top honor of Best Feature at the 2024 Cinema Eye Honors Awards. Will this acknowledgement help raise the film’s profile for next week’s Oscar voting? The doc which premiered at the 2022 edition of the Sundance Film Festival beat out Mstyslav Chernov’s 20 Days in Mariupol, Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson’s Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, Davis Guggenheim’s Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, Maite Alberdi’s The Eternal Memory, Kaouther Ben Hania’s Four Daughters and D. Smith’s Kokomo City which had the most noms of all docs with six. All of these films except the groundbreaking Kokomo City were on the Oscars shortlist. In other noteworthy category wins we find Kaouther Ben Hania (once again sharing a prize win as she did in Cannes) and Maite Alberdi tying for the Best Director award while Kokomo City nabbed its director the Best Debut Feature award. Here are last night’s winners:
Outstanding Nonfiction Feature: “32 Sounds” – Directed by Sam Green / Produced by Josh Penn and Thomas O. Kriegsman
Outstanding Direction: (TIE)
Maite AlMost of berdi, “The Eternal Memory”
Kaouther Ben Hania, “Four Daughters”
Outstanding Editing: Michael Harte, “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie”
Outstanding Production: 20 Days in Mariupol
Outstanding Cinematography: Ants Tammik, “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood”
Outstanding Original Score: JD Samson, “32 Sounds”
Outstanding Sound Design: Mark Mangini, “32 Sounds”
Outstanding Visual Design: Thomas Curtis and Sean Pierce, “Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project”
Outstanding Debut: “Kokomo City,” directed by D. Smith
Outstanding Nonfiction Short: “Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games,” directed by Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson
Audience Choice Prize: “Bobi Wine: The People’s President,” directed by Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp
Spotlight: “Q,” directed by Jude Chehab
Heterodox: “The Buriti Flower,” directed by João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora
Broadcast Film: “The Stroll,” directed by Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker
Nonfiction Series: “Paul T. Goldman,” directed by Jason Woliner
Anthology Series: “The 1619 Project”
Executive Producers: Nikole Hannah-Jones, Roger Ross Williams, Shoshana Guy, Caitlin Roper, Kathleen Lingo, Helen Verno and Oprah Winfrey
Broadcast Editing: “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields”
Editors: Sara Newens, Anne Yao and David Teague
The Unforgettables (Non-Competitive Honor)
“American Symphony”: Jon Batiste and Suleika Jaouad
“Apolonia, Apolonia”: Apolonia Sokol
“Bobi Wine: The People’s President”: Bobi Wine
“Confessions of a Good Samaritan”: Penny Lane
“The Disappearance of Shere Hite”: Shere Hite
“The Eternal Memory”: Augusto Góngora & Paulina Urrutia
“Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project”: Nikki Giovanni
“Invisible Beauty”: Bethann Hardison
“Joan Baez I Am a Noise”: Joan Baez
“Kokomo City”: Daniella Carter, Koko Da Doll, Liyah Mitchell and Dominique Silver
“The Pigeon Tunnel”: David Cornwell aka John le Carré
“Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie”: Michael J. Fox
“A Still Small Voice”: Margaret “Mati” Engel
“Twice Colonized”: Aaju Peter
“While We Watched”: Ravish Kumar
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).
