The Cinema Eye Honors, the leading awards body for nonfiction film, revealed nominations for its 20th annual ceremony on Thursday. Poh Si Teng's American Doctor and Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's You Can See Everything tied at the top with seven nominations each.
American Doctor, which premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, follows three U.S. surgeons who traveled to Gaza to treat patients during the conflict. It is Poh Si Teng's debut feature. The film received nominations in Nonfiction Feature, Direction, Production, Original Score, Debut Feature, and Audience Choice, among others. Its subjects, Dr. Thaer Ahmad, Dr. Mark Perlmutter, and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, were also named Unforgettables honorees by the organization. The film is distributed by Watermelon Pictures.
You Can See Everything, the A24 documentary co-directed by Fielder and Oppenheim, received nominations across six categories including Direction, Editing, Production, Cinematography, Original Score, and the Audience Choice Prize.
Sara Dosa's Time and Water followed with six nominations, and Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor's NAZA received five. Abraham and Szor won the Cinema Eye Honors' top prize in 2025 for No Other Land, which went on to win the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
The Cinema Eye Honors is widely regarded as a bellwether for the Oscar Best Documentary Feature race. The 20th annual ceremony is scheduled for January 11, 2027, at the Times Center in New York City. Steve James' Hoop Dreams will receive the Legacy Award.
