Cinema Eye Honors 2025 Unveils First Round of Honorees and Nominees for Year’s Best Documentary Films and Series

Cinema Eye Honors, the organization that “recognizes outstanding artistic achievement in nonfiction and documentary films and series” has launched its 19th annual celebrations today with the announcement of its first round of honorees, nominees, and longlists for 2026.

Among today’s announcements: the 16 films on the Audience Choice Prize Longlist, the unveiling of this year’s Unforgettables Honorees, nominees in five Broadcast categories, and the annual Shorts List (which spotlights 10 of the year’s top documentary short films).

The annual list of the Unforgettables — “the on-camera collaborators” from seven of the year’s best docs — are the first official honorees of the season and often among the most touching of the entire year.

These winners include Noam Shuster-Eliassi from Amber Fares’ “Coexistence, My Ass!”; Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley from Ryan White’s “Come See Me in the Good Light”; Seymour Hersh from Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’ “Cover–Up…