CINE

CINE is a non-profit film organization that honors emerging and established filmmakers through the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award.

History

CINE was founded in 1957 by a consortium representing business, education, and the government to depict American life and thought realistically for a global audience through the distribution of the best American documentary films. CINE is one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious film, television, video and media arts non-profit organizations.

CINE Golden Eagle Award

The CINE Golden Eagle Competitions, held each Spring and Fall, involve hundreds of volunteer media and content specialists who judge entries in several moving-image genres. Over the years, the judging procedure has evolved into an efficient multi-stage jury process to determine which productions are deserving of the CINE Golden Eagle Award.

The CINE Golden Eagle Award recognizes excellence in a variety of content categories for professional, independent and student filmmakers. Each year, hundreds of jurors judge nearly 1,000 entries in 31 categories.

Distinguished CINE Golden Eagle Award Winners

Many renowned filmmakers, producers, directors and journalists are CINE Golden Eagle Award-winners; for several of them, the Golden Eagle was their first major award.

Notable Golden Eagle Award-winning filmmakers include Steven Spielberg, Ken Burns, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Robert Altman, John Lasseter, George Lucas, Mike Nichols, Robert Zemeckis, Mel Brooks, Spike Lee, Albert Maysles, Mira Nair, Sydney Pollack, John Frankenheimer, Stanley Nelson, Jim Henson, David Mamet, Julie Taymor, Edward Zwick, James L. Brooks, and Charles Guggenheim.

Many prominent television producers have also won Golden Eagle Awards, including Matt Groening (The Simpsons), Mark Burnett (Survivor), David Chase (The Sopranos), Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood), and Sheila Nevins (HBO).

Several distinguished journalists, including Walter Cronkite, Diane Sawyer, Christiane Amanpour, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, Barbara Walters, Katie Couric, Sam Donaldson, Judy Woodruff, Bill Moyers, Charles Gibson, Meredith Vieira, and Brian Williams have been the recipients of CINE Golden Eagle Awards, as well.

The CINE Special Jury Award, CINE Masters Series Award and the CINE Award of Excellence

The CINE Special Jury Award is given annually to the best film in each of CINE’s 31 categories. All of the CINE Special Jury Award winners become eligible for the CINE Masters Series Awards (for Professional Broadcast, Non-Broadcast and Independent winners) and the CINE Award of Excellence (for the Student Division). These awards recognize the "best of the best" and are presented at the CINE Awards Gala, held annually in Washington, D.C.

At CINE’s 2008, 2009 and 2010 Awards Ceremony, the winners of the CINE Award of Excellence for the Student Division received the Chubb/CINE Student Scholarship, which included a monetary award and a rights clearance grant from the Chubb Group of Insurers. These student winners also received a film stock grant from Kodak; in 2010, this film stock grant was presented to the best student film shot on film stock from the 2009 CINE Golden Eagle Competitions. The Masters Series Award winners in the Independent Division received a post-production grant from CINE's long-time sponsor, Henninger Media Services.

CINE Awards Gala and Honorary Award Recipients

Each year, members of the film and television community gather at CINE's Awards Gala in Washington, D.C. The 2008 ceremony celebrated CINE's first half-century, and was held at the Newseum. In 2009 and 2010, the CINE Awards Gala was held at the Embassy of France in Washington, D.C.

CINE presents honorary awards to industry luminaries at each CINE Awards Gala. The CINE Lifetime Achievement Award expresses recognition and gratitude to pinnacle leaders in the world of film and television whose lifetime contribution and great service are continuing to leave a profound impact on our culture. The CINE Leadership Award honors a distinguished person in the film and television industry who has advanced or enhanced the quality of the media through outstanding leadership. The CINE Trailblazer Award is presented to someone for unique accomplishments within the film and television industry.

Past winners of the CINE Lifetime Achievement Award include Ted Turner, Sheila Nevins, Sharon Percy Rockefeller, Roger Ebert, Albert Maysles, Edward James Olmos, Judy Woodruff and Susan Lacy.

Past CINE Leadership Award recipients include John Hendricks, Tim Kelly, Pat Mitchell, Bill Moyers, Ken Burns, Stanley Nelson, Bonnie Hammer, Clark Bunting and Johnathan Rodgers.

Past recipients of the CINE Trailblazer Award include The Smothers Brothers, D A Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond, Gwen Ifill, Ted Leonsis and Erik Nelson.

Notable CINE Golden Eagle Winners

The following people in the film and television industry have received a CINE Golden Eagle

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