You Can See Everything joins the Oscar season.

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary, which follows the Theranos founder through the 34 days before she reported to prison and keeps rolling afterward, opened to a staggering $15 million over the weekend, a number most nonfiction films don’yt see in a full run.

It’s also boasting a record-setting 99 on Metacritic, 98% on Rotten Tomatoes and holding a 4.7 (out of 5) on Letterboxd and 9.4 on IMDb (as of Monday, Oct. 19). If the IMDb score holds, it will surpass the longstanding No. 1 “The Shawshank Redemption” (1994) as the highest-rated film of all time.

Eligible for best documentary feature at the 2027 Oscars, the film will also be submitted across the board: best picture (Nathan Fielder, Lance Oppenheim, Tatiana Bears, Maggie Ambrose and Jack Davis), director (Fielder and Oppenheim), production design (Alex DiGerlando and Rebecca Meis), cinematography (David Bolen), costume design (Katina Danabassis), film editing (Adam Locke-Norton), makeup and hairstyling (Stephanie Pasicov and Kerrie Smith), sound (Paul Hsu and Richard Carlos) and original score (Ari Balouzian).

Credited in the film as Elizabeth Holmes, Amanda Seyfreid is eligible for the Academy Awards in the acting categories. Seyfried, who also appears as herself while reprising her Emmy-winning turn as Holmes from “The Dropout,” will be campaigned in the supporting actress category. If she lands the nomination, it would be her second, after Mank (2020). She would get there for playing two people at once: herself and the woman she already won an Emmy statue for playing.

Fielder’s possible Oscar recognition would be in three categories — best picture, documentary feature and directing.

Christopher Abbott, who also appears in the film as Holmes’ spouse, Billy Evans, in recreated scenes, is also eligible in the supporting actor category.

My Oscar Book:

In Oscar’s 98 years, no documentary has ever been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar

Critics Choice Awards: Eligible across the board, including the acting categories.

That makes Critics Choice the only major stop this season where the performances in “You Can See Everything” could get recognition before Oscar nominations.

Directors Guild of America: Eligible in both top categories.

The DGA has a separate documentary category, and its top prize is for directors of a theatrically feature film. Questions began when RaMell Ross, whose “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” was nominated for documentary feature at the Oscars before his narrative debut, Nickel Boys, was entered in first-time feature director at the DGA, a category in which won.

This is Fielder’s first directorial credit for a documentary feature, but that isn’t the case for Oppenheim, who helmed “Spermworld” (2024) and “Some Kind of Heaven” (2020). Thus, the film won’t be eligible for first-time feature director.

However, Oppenheim makes his feature directorial debut with the A24 thriller “Primetime” starring Robert Pattinson, Merritt Wever and Skyler Gisondo.

Fielder and Oppenheim are eligible for the DGA’s top award in addition to the documentary prize. That means they could take a slot otherwise slotted for Christopher Nolan (“The Odyssey”) or the other directing duos in the race, including Los Javis (“La Bola Negra”) and Phil Lord and Chris Miller (“Project Hail Mary”).

 

ASC (American Society of Cinematographers): Eligible, but only as a documentary.

Per the rules for the highest award for cinematographers, “All Documentary Feature Films and Documentary Series Episodes must be submitted in the Documentary Award category.”

Producers Guild of America: Eligible for both the theatrical motion picture award and the documentary prize.