Lixin Fan’s Last Train Home leads the nominations for the 2011 Cinema Eye Honors at the Sheffield Doc/Fest. The 2009 film, produced by Montreal’s EyeSteelFilm, has already won best feature-length documentary at IDFA and was nominated for a grand jury prize at Sundance.

The doc – the story of a migrant family traveling across China to look for work – was nominated for outstanding feature, direction, production, cinematography, editing, as international feature and as audience choice at Sheffield.

Hard on the heels of Last Train Home are Danish war documentary Armadillo (Janus Metz) and Exit Through The Gift Shop (Banksy), both with six nominations.

A total of 109 films were in the running for 2011 honors.

The Cinema Eye awards will be handed out January 18 at the re-opened Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NYC. The event is being broadcast for the first time since its 2007 launch on the Documentary Channel in the U.S.

The nominations are decided upon by a committee comprised of doc programmers from other festivals, including Hot Docs’ Sean Farnel (who also serves as chair), David Courier (from Sundance), Heather Croall (Sheffield), David Kwok (Tribeca), Grit Lemke (Dok Leipzig), Janet Pierson (SXSW), Charlotte Selb (RIDM), Sky Sitney (Silverdocs) and Sadie Tillery (Full Frame).