18th Cinema Eye Honors
The 18th Cinema Eye Honors, destined to recognize outstanding artistry and craft in nonfiction filmmaking of 2024, took place at the New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem, New York on January 9, 2025.
The broadcast categories as well as the Short Films shortlist, the Audience Choice Prize longlist and the recipients for The Unforgettables, were announced on October 24, 2024. Two programs led the broadcast nominations: Apple TV+ film Girls State, which follows a group of teenage girls during a leadership program named Girl State, and HBO series Ren Faire, which explores a succession crisis at the Texas Renaissance Festival. Both received three nominations.
Later, on November 14, 2024, the film categories were announced. Sugarcane, which investigates the Canadian Indian residential school system, led the nominations with six. Following it, were two films with five nominations each: No Other Land, which shows the destruction of a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank, which had been resisting forced displacement following the declaration of an Israeli "firing zone" on their land; and Eno, which explores the career of English musician Brian Eno. The Academy Award-winning 1974 documentary film Hearts and Minds, which covers the Vietnam War, was honored with the Legacy Award.