The Imposter, Searching for Sugar Man Lead Cinema Eye Award Nominations

5 Broken Cameras, Detropia, Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, Only the Young Also Contend for Top Prize

The Imposter, about a French con man, and Searching for Sugar Man, about the Mexican-American singer-songwriter Rodriguez, each earned five nominations for the Cinema Eye Awards, which has become, over its six years in existence, a reliable barometer of quality in documentary filmmaking.

Taking four nominations each were Detroit doc Detropia; slice-of-California-life Only the Young; Room 237, all about purported hidding meanings in The Shining; and ¡Vivan las Antipodas!, a look at diametrically opposed locations on the earth's surface.

In contention for the top award, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking, are Detropia; The Imposter; Only the Young; Searching for Sugar Man; 5 Broken Cameras, chronicling the experiences of a Palestinian farmer in the Israeli occupied West Bank; and Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present, about the artist's 2010 installation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Nominees in that category were selected by the Cinema Eye nominations committee as well as more than 60 directors of eligible films, Cinema Eye said. 

Winners will be announced in a ceremony held at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens on January 9. A full list of nominees follows.

Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film