'You Can See Everything' sweeps Critics Choice documentary awards
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“You Can See Everything,” the documentary following the last days of Elizabeth Holmes’s life before she went to prison, swept the Critics Choice Documentary Awards on Sunday. It won every category in which it was nominated, taking best documentary feature along with directing, cinematography, editing and score.
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim shared the directing prize. David Bolen won best cinematography, Adam Locke-Norton best editing and Ari Balouzian best score. The film is distributed by A24, and Deadline said it swept the major categories of the evening.
The night’s other big winner was David Greaves’s “Once Upon a Time in Harlem,” released by Neon, which won best first documentary feature, best archival documentary and best historical documentary. Alex Gibney’s four-hour “Musk,” from Bleecker Street, won best biographical documentary. Baz Luhrmann’s “EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert” won best music documentary, and John Wilson won best narration as writer and performer of Magnolia Pictures’ “The History of Concrete.”
“NAZA,” also from Neon, won best political documentary. IndieWire noted that awards-season handicappers currently favor it for the Academy Award in the documentary category. Neon collected five awards in all. The Hollywood Reporter said the Holmes documentary took five prizes from five nominations.
Ms. Holmes founded Theranos, the blood-testing company, and was convicted of defrauding investors. Mr. Fielder is a comedian and television writer and Mr. Oppenheim a documentary filmmaker; their film chronicles Ms. Holmes’s final days of freedom.
The documentary’s public profile rose further over the weekend. The comedian Druski parodied its trailer on “Saturday Night Live” on November 7 during his first hosting appearance, in a sketch titled “Dru Can See Everything,” The A.V. Club reported.
The documentary prizes, presented by the Critics Choice Association, arrive early in the awards calendar, ahead of the guild and Academy voting that will decide the category’s final prizes.