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In Shocker, ’32 Sounds’ Takes Top Documentary Award At Cinema Eye Honors, Plus Two Other Awards (Full List)

32 Sounds, the innovative documentary that explores the power of sonic experience, pulled off a shocker at the Cinema Eye Honors Friday night, winning Outstanding Nonfiction Feature over Still: A Michael J. The 1619 Project followed up its Emmy win last weekend with the Cinema Eye prize for Anthology Series, honoring a team that includes Nikole Hannah-Jones, Roger Ross Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Shoshana Guy, and the New York Times’ Kathleen Lingo. Many conservatives, however, have attacked its message; in 2020, then-President Trump went out of his way to declare the print iteration of The 1619 Project “toxic propaganda.” Accepting the Cinema Eye trophy, Hannah-Jones alluded to the backlash against the series, which prompted some Southern states to sanitize the way slavery is taught in schools.

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