Awards / Nominations:
2025 Gotham Awards nominee (Doc Series): Conbody VS Everybody
2023 Academy Awards Shortlist (Doc Short): Shut Up And Paint
2022 Children’s & Family Emmy Awards nominee: Sesame Street, Talking About Race
2020 Peabody Award for Documentary: Immigration Nation
2020 Best Documentary & Audience Award, DOCNYC: Weed & Wine
2017 Academy Awards Shortlist (Doc Feature): Dark Money
2017 Sundance Institute Producers Award: Dark Money
2016 Albert Maysles Directing Award, Tribeca Film Festival: Untouchable
2014 Jury Award for Best Documentary, Los Angeles Film Festival: Stray Dog
Selected Festivals / Screenings:
2024 Sundance Film Festival: Conbody VS Everybody
2024 DOCNYC: Conbody VS Everybody
2024 New York Film Festival: Facing the Wind
Nov’ 2024: Apple TV #1 most downloaded doc: Weed & Wine
2021 Big Sky Film Festival: The Big Scary “S” Word
2020 Tribeca Film Festival: Women In Blue
2020 AFIDocs: Women In Blue
2020 HotDocs: Weed & Wine, The Big Scary “S” Word
2020 DOCNYC: Weed & Wine, Women In Blue, The Big Scary “S” Word
2017 Sundance Film Festival: Dark Money
2016 Tribeca Film Festival: Untouchable
2014 New York Film Festival: Stray Dog
2012 CPH:DOX: Brasslands
2009 Jury Award for Best Documentary & Audience Award, New York Latino Film Festival: Stages
Bio:
Eric Phillips-Horst is a verité cinematographer and director whose work has received a Peabody Award, an Emmy nomination, a Sundance Producers Award, and multiple Academy Award shortlist selections.
He shot Talking About Race, the Sesame Street series nominated for a 2022 Children & Family Emmy, and Conbody VS Everybody, directed by Debra Granik, which premiered at Sundance 2024. His work on Shut Up & Paint was shortlisted for the 2023 Oscar and won the Grand Jury Prize at Big Sky, featuring artist Titus Kaphar.
He was a lead cinematographer on the sprawling series to Immigration Nation, recipient of the 2020 Peabody Award, and he also filmed Weed & Wine, which won the DOCNYC Audience Award, profiling farmers in France and California. Dark Money, which he shot, premiered at Sundance 2018, won the Producers Award, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Academy Award.
His credits also include Stray Dog, Untouchable, American Boyband, Brasslands, and shorts for National Geographic, The New Yorker, and New York Times OpDocs.