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- A24 confirmed the October theatrical release of "You Can See Everything" at the same moment the 172-minute documentary unspooled at a Telluride secret screening that drew the festival's longest line, with phones locked away and security in night-vision goggles.
- Elizabeth Holmes invited filmmakers inside her home 34 days before reporting to prison, kicking off a three-year shoot A24's logline frames as a journey "into the abyss" — the first Holmes/Theranos documentary to embed over that span.
- Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim co-direct the film; Fielder steps in front of the camera and becomes "the film's destabilized center," while the central performance is eligible for Oscar recognition (though not SAG), Variety confirmed.
- David Bolen (cinematographer), Adam Locke-Norton (editor, Fielder's 20-year collaborator), and composer Ari Balouzian of Gabriels anchor a craft package A24 is expected to lean on in below-the-line categories.
- A24 is eyeing a Best Picture run rather than just the documentary branch, betting on the rare crossover potential — no documentary has ever been nominated for Best Picture in the Academy's 98 prior ceremonies.
- A24's 2025 slate — "The Invite," Cannes breakout "Club Kid," Telluride smash "The Debut," Venice hit "Primetime," plus upcoming Toronto title "Misty Green" — could challenge Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1937 record of five Best Picture nominations from one studio in a single year.
- Earlier Holmes/Theranos adaptations include Alex Gibney's "The Inventor" (2019) and Hulu's "The Dropout," which won Amanda Seyfried an Emmy; an Adam McKay–Jennifer Lawrence feature never got to production.
Why it matters: A24 is turning the documentary Oscar race into a Best Picture referendum: a nomination for "You Can See Everything" would be the first in the Academy's 98-year history, and pairing it with a loaded slate of narrative contenders gives the indie studio a shot at MGM's 90-year-old record of five Best Picture nominations from a single studio, set when the category fielded 10 films.
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