Cinema Eye Honors: “Downfall: The Case Against Boeing,” “Black and Missing,” & More Land Noms

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Cinema Eye Honors: “Downfall: The Case Against Boeing,” “Black and Missing,” & More Land Noms

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 inside the criminal justice system, “Mind Over Murder,” Nanfu Wang’s portrait of the Beatrice Six, who were convicted in the rape and murder of Helen Wilson and later exonerated by DNA evidence. Also up for honors are Rachel Dretzin’s “Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey” and Julia Willoughby Nason and Jenner Furst’s “LulaRich.” The former tells the story of Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the latter pulls back the curtain on LuLaRoe’s clothing empire.

Head over to Deadline to check out a complete list of categories that have been announced so far. More nominations will follow. The Cinema Eye Honors will take place January 12.