CINE is a consortium

Consortium

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 formulated to depict American

United States

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 life and thought realistically for a global audience. CINE recognizes and fosters the highest quality of non-theatrical film and video production through its semi-annual film competitions.

CINE, founded in 1957, celebrates its first half-century in 2007. The CINE Eagle Award is among the awards CINE has offered since spring 1985. Eagle and Golden Eagle awards are given for a wide variety of film or television genres and amateur, student, professional, and government categories.

Along with these competitions, CINE offers development workshops for established film and video professionals, as well as mentoring programs for students.

Awards

In addition to Eagle and Golden Eagle awards, some CINE awards are competitive and some honorary. Competitive awards include The Masters Series Awards and The Award of Excellence. Honorary awards include the CINE Lifetime Achievement Award and the CINE Leadership Award.

Past winners of the CINE Lifetime Achievement Award included Ted Turner

Ted Turner

Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable news network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television...

, Sheila Nevins, Sharon Percy Rockefeller

Sharon Percy Rockefeller

Sharon Percy Rockefeller is the wife of former Governor of West Virginia and current U.S. Senator John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV of West Virginia and served as that state's First Lady from 1977 to 1985....

, Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.Ebert is known for his film review column and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The...

, and Albert Maysles.

Past CINE Leadership Award included John Hendricks

John Hendricks

John Hendricks is the founder and chairman of Discovery Communications, a broadcasting and film production company which owns the Discovery Channel, TLC and Animal Planet cable tv networks, among other ventures.-Early life:...

, Tim Kelly

Tim Kelly

Timothy "Tim" Patrick Kelly was an American guitarist for the band Slaughter. After his death in 1998, Jeff Blando replaced Kelly in Slaughter.-Career:...

, Pat Mitchell

Pat Mitchell

Pat Mitchell is the current President and Chief Executive Officer of The Paley Center for Media in New York City and the former President and CEO of Public Broadcasting Service ....

, Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers is an American journalist and public commentator. He served as White House Press Secretary in the United States President Lyndon B. Johnson Administration from 1965 to 1967. He worked as a news commentator on television for ten years. Moyers has had an extensive involvement with public...

, Ken Burns

Ken Burns

Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns is an American director and producer of documentary films, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs...

, Stanley Nelson, and Bonnie Hammer

Bonnie Hammer

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.

In addition, CINE presents special awards for unique achievements in the industry. Tom

Tom Smothers

Tom Smothers is an American comedian, composer and musician, best known as half of the musical comedy team The Smothers Brothers, alongside his younger brother Dick.-Early life:...

 and Dick Smothers

Dick Smothers

Richard Remick "Dick" Smothers is an American actor, comedian, composer and musician. He is best known for being half of the musical comedy team, the Smothers Brothers, with his older brother Tom.-Life and career:...

 received CINE's Trailblazers Tribute Award.

Notable CINE Golden Eagle winners

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

• Steven Spielberg
  Steven Spielberg
  Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...
  
  
• George Lucas
  George Lucas
  George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an American film producer, screenwriter, and director, and entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive of Lucasfilm. He is best known as the creator of the space opera franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones...
  
  
• John Lasseter
  John Lasseter
  John Alan Lasseter is an American animator, director and the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is also currently the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering....
  
  
• David Grubin
  David Grubin
  David Grubin is an American documentary filmmaker, who has produced and directed numerous films, many of which are best-known from airing on PBS.-Filmography:*The Great Air Race of 1924 *LBJ *FDR...
  
  
• Barbara Kopple
  Barbara Kopple
  Barbara Kopple is an American film director, primarily known for her work in documentary film.-Biography:She grew up in Scarsdale, New York, the daughter of a textile executive and studied psychology at Northeastern University, after which she worked with the Maysles Brothers.Kopple has won two...
  
  
• Andrea Kalin
  Andrea Kalin
  Andrea Kalin is an independent American filmmaker . She is also the principal and founder of Spark Media, Inc. and founder and Executive Director of Stone Soup Productions, Inc., a 501c3 non-profit foundation-Personal life:...
  
  
• Charles Guggenheim
  Charles Guggenheim
  Charles Guggenheim was an American film director and producer.- Early life :Guggenheim was born into a prominent German Jewish family in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father was a furniture salesman. While studying farming at Colorado A&M in 1943, Guggenheim was drafted into the United States Army...
  
  
• Shane Stanley
  Shane Stanley
  Shane Stanley is a multi-Emmy Award winning filmmaker best known for Executive Producing Gridiron Gang starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for Sony Pictures and directing Bret Michaels music videos supporting the smash hit show Rock of Love and Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It...
  
  
• Herk Harvey
  Herk Harvey
  Harold Arnold "Herk" Harvey was an American film director, actor, and film producer.-Early life:Harvey was born in Windsor, Colorado, the son of Everett and Minnie R. Prewitt Harvey. He grew up in Fort Collins and was a graduate of Fort Collins High School before serving in the U.S...
  
  
• Ken Burns
  Ken Burns
  Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns is an American director and producer of documentary films, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs...
  
  
• Paul Coyne
  Paul Coyne
  Paul J. Coyne is an American film and television editor and producer.-Early life:Coyne grew up in Milford, Massachusetts, and always thought he would someday become an artist. His earliest memory is of viewing a re-release of Jay North's Zebra in the Kitchen, at the Milford Cinemas...
  
  
• Glenn Cote
• Albert Maysles
• Debra Chasnoff
  Debra Chasnoff
  Debra Chasnoff is an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and activist whose films address progressive social justice issues. Her production company GroundSpark produces and distributes films, educational resources and campaigns on issues ranging from environmental concerns to affordable...
  
  
• James Myer
  James Myer
  James Myer is an American documentarist and educational filmmaker. He produced Multiple Personality: Reality and Illusion, a documentary that chronicled the life of Chris Costner-Sizemore. Ms. Sizemore, who was depicted in the book and film The Three Faces of Eve, was diagnosed in the 1950’s...
  
  
• George Krstic
  George Krstic
  George Krstic is an award-winning American director, screenwriter and producer known for his work in the science fiction, comic book and animation genres...
  
  
• Firdaus Kharas
  Firdaus Kharas
  Firdaus Kharas is a Canadian director and producer of animation, film and television media.Kharas worked as a bureaucrat with the United Nations and as assistant deputy chairman of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, before becoming involved with media...
  
  
• Steven Fischer
  Steven Fischer
  Steven Thomas Fischer is an American film director and producer. Fischer is an Emmy Award nominated filmmaker who works primarily on documentaries. Among his many accolades, Fischer's work has been honored by the Directors Guild of America, The New York Festivals, the CINE Golden Eagle Awards, and...
  
  
• Flavio Alves
  Flavio Alves
  Flavio Alves is a Brazilian writer, screenwriter, and film director. He is best known for his book Toque de Silêncio , an autobiographical account of his life as a gay man in the Brazilian navy....
  
  
• Larry Clamage
  Larry Clamage
  Lawrence Howard Clamage is an American filmmaker and author. He has written, directed and produced a wide variety of notable documentaries, including Carl Hancock Rux, Coming of Age and The Lost Boys: The Journey to Freedom, both recipients of CINE Golden Eagle Awards.He began his directing...
  
  
• Skip Battaglia
  Skip Battaglia
  Carl F. "Skip" Battaglia has been an American experimental filmmaker and animator for 30+ years.-Education:Battaglia was raised in Buffalo, New York where he states his introduction to Circle Art in High School changed his life. In 1966 he graduated from St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute...
  
  
• David Michael Maurer
  David Michael Maurer
  David Michael Maurer is an American Television and Film Editor/Director.His work has been experienced by hundreds of millions of television viewers on such shows as "Whale Wars", "Profiles From The Front Line", "American Idol: The Search for a Superstar" , and "The Apprentice". Mr...
  
  
• Michael Sporn
  Michael Sporn
  Michael Sporn is an American animator who founded his New York-based company, Michael Sporn Animation in 1980, and has produced and directed numerous animated TV specials and short spots.-Career:...
  
  
• William Steig
  William Steig
  William Steig was a prolific American cartoonist, sculptor and, later in life, an author of popular children's literature...
  
  
• Morton Schindel
  Morton Schindel
  Morton Schindel is an American educator and producer, the founder of Weston Woods Studios, which specializes in adapting children's books into animated films. He named the company after the wooded area outside his home in Weston, Connecticut...