Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s “You Can See Everything” has a real shot at becoming the first nonfiction best picture nominee. Its biggest obstacle might be the Academy's own documentary branch. “Sometimes it feels less like we’re judging the work and more like we’re judging only who we know,” one documentary branch member tells Variety. “That’s frustrating. You can make the most formally ambitious documentary of the decade, but if people have already decided they love another filmmaker, or they’ve seen them at enough dinners and screenings, you don’t stand a chance.” wp.me/pc8uak-1lHV5L

Nathan Fielder says Elizabeth Holmes seemed “so genuine at times” when he first met her, but adds: “I know she’s a liar.” “When I met her, I remember having this weird experience where she seems so genuine at times. But then I’m like, ‘no,’ and clocking and tracking my thoughts and being like, ‘Okay, I know she’s a liar.’ It was a weird mental thing. From there, we were like, ‘Can we roll the dice on something if they were open to having cameras in?'” Fielder said at #NYFF. “It wasn’t until we started shooting that moments would happen — some of them are in the film — and then after Lance and I would talk about what we thought happened there. We’d completely disagree on what something meant to us and what we thought was happening. Then we were like, ‘Oh, this is really interesting. If we can’t agree on what’s happening, there’s something here.’ And our curiosity sort of just like drove us from there.” variety.com/2026/film/news/n…