{"id":28484,"date":"2015-01-08T21:45:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T02:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/uncategorized\/edward-snowden-doc-citizenfour-dominates-cinema-eye-honors.php"},"modified":"2015-01-08T21:45:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T02:45:51","slug":"edward-snowden-doc-citizenfour-dominates-cinema-eye-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/edward-snowden\/edward-snowden-doc-citizenfour-dominates-cinema-eye-honors.php","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden doc \u201cCitizenfour\u201d dominates Cinema Eye Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    January 8, 2015 - 12:20 AMT  <\/p>\n<p>    PanARMENIAN.Net - Edward Snowden documentary    Citizenfour dominated Wednesday, Jan 7 night's 8th    annual Cinema Eye Honors, devoted to recognizing the best in    nonfiction film, The Hollywood Reporter said.  <\/p>\n<p>    The Laura Poitras-directed film about the NSA leaker, which is    a frontrunner for a best documentary Oscar nomination, took    home four awards, including best nonfiction feature and best    direction, making Poitras the first person in Cinema Eye    history to win the award for best direction twice, taking home    the prize in 2011 for The Oath. In total, Poitras took home    three awards, tying the record set by Lixin Fan in 2011 for    Last Train Home. Citizenfour also won the outstanding    achievement in editing and production prizes, becoming the    second film in Cinema Eye history to capture that many awards    in one year and win the best nonfiction feature and direction    prizes. Going into the show, the documentary was up for six    awards.  <\/p>\n<p>    Fellow Oscar documentary frontrunner Keep On Keepin' On won the    audience choice prize, determined by votes on the Cinema Eye    website.  <\/p>\n<p>    There were two ties at this year's awards, a Cinema Eye first.    Syd Garon of Jodorowskys Dune and Heather Brantman and Tim    Fisher of Particle Fever shared the award for outstanding    achievement in graphic design or animation. 20,000 Days on    Earth's Erik Wilson and Virunga's Franklin Dow and Orlando von    Einsiedel shared the best cinematography prizes.  <\/p>\n<p>    Oscar-nominated director Sam Green hosted this year's event, at    the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, and Serial podcast    host Sarah Koenig served as the announcer for the awards show.  <\/p>\n<p>    Cinema Eye was founded in 2007 to recognize excellence in    artistry and craft in nonfiction filmmaking and remains the    only international nonfiction award to recognize a film's    entire creative team. The film nominees are determined by top    documentary programmers from festivals all over the world. The    television award nominees were selected by a nominations    committee of film critics and writers.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Originally posted here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.panarmenian.net\/eng\/news\/186879\" title=\"Edward Snowden doc \u201cCitizenfour\u201d dominates Cinema Eye Honors\">Edward Snowden doc \u201cCitizenfour\u201d dominates Cinema Eye Honors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> January 8, 2015 - 12:20 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour dominated Wednesday, Jan 7 night's 8th annual Cinema Eye Honors, devoted to recognizing the best in nonfiction film, The Hollywood Reporter said. The Laura Poitras-directed film about the NSA leaker, which is a frontrunner for a best documentary Oscar nomination, took home four awards, including best nonfiction feature and best direction, making Poitras the first person in Cinema Eye history to win the award for best direction twice, taking home the prize in 2011 for The Oath. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-snowden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}