Apple TV+’s Girls State and HBO’s Ren Faire scored three nominations apiece to lead all broadcast nominees announced Thursday for the 18th Cinema Eye Honors . The group, which recognizes the year’s outstanding nonfiction and documentary films and TV series, also revealed the 16-film longlist for its annual Audience Choice Prize, won last year by National Geographic’s Bobi Wine: The People’s President , which went on to get nominated for the Documentary Feature Oscar. The past six winners of the Best Documentary Feature Oscar — this year’s winner 20 Days in Mariupol, Navalny, Summer of Soul, My Octopus Teacher, American Factory and Free Solo — were all Audience Choice Prize nominees.
Fans voting will whittle the list to 10 beginning next week, with winners in that and all categories to be announced at an awards ceremony January 9 at the New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem. The full list of 2024 Cinema Eye noms — including in the Outstanding Nonfiction Feature category, which is the group’s equivalent to the Oscars’ Best Documentary Feature — will be announced November 14. Cinema Eye today also revealed its list of eight Unforgettables Honorees including Brian Eno, Lhakpa Sherpa from Lucy Walker’s Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa and Harper Steele from Will & Harper .
It also announced the list of shorts semifinalists highlighting the year’s top documentary shorts. Among the notable broadcast nominees today were recent National Hu.