DOC NYC has announced the honorees for its Visionaries Tribute, part of the documentary festival's 13th edition, taking place in New York this November. Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney and filmmaker-sound recordist JT Takagi will receive Lifetime Achievement awards, while Emmy-winning filmmaker Stephen Maing will be presented with the Robert and Anne Drew Award for Documentary Excellence, and Frontline's Raney Aronson-Rath will receive the Leading Light Award. The tribute recognises figures across different facets of the documentary industry, from directing to sound recording to editorial leadership.

The ceremony will be held at Gotham Hall in Manhattan on the festival's opening day. Gibney, known for Taxi to the Dark Side and Going Clear, is currently preparing a documentary about Elon Musk for the Venice Film Festival, while Takagi, executive director of Third World Newsreel, has worked as a sound engineer on Emmy-winning films. Maing's award carries a $5,000 prize funded by Drew Associates, recognising his recent film The Great Experiment, and Aronson-Rath, an Oscar winner for 20 Days in Mariupol, is honoured for her non-filmmaking contribution as Frontline's editor-in-chief and executive producer.