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A24’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything won all five categories it was nominated for at the 11th Critics Choice Documentary Awards, held Sunday, November 8, 2026, at the Edison Ballroom in New York City, according to TheWrap. Ross Mathews hosted.
What You Can See Everything won
The film follows Holmes through the 34 days before she began her prison sentence. Showbiz Junkies and TheWrap list the same five wins:
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- Best Documentary Feature
- Best Director: Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim
- Best Cinematography: David Bolen
- Best Editing: Adam Locke-Norton
- Best Music Score: Ari Balouzian
The film has also been doing well in cinemas. It was No. 1 in its third weekend, as covered in our box office report, and it had passed $79 million domestically by its fourth weekend.
Other winners
Neon’s Once Upon a Time in Harlem, directed by David Greaves, won three awards: Best First Documentary Feature, Best Historical Documentary and Best Archival Documentary. Ava DuVernay’s 14th led the field with six nominations but won none. The rest of the list, per TheWrap:
- Best Biographical Documentary: Musk
- Best Music Documentary: EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
- Best Political Documentary: NAZA
- Best Science/Nature Documentary: Nuisance Bear
- Best Sports Documentary: Everest: The Other Side
- Best True Crime Documentary (tie): The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare and Lost Women of Alaska
- Best Short Documentary: The Baddest Speechwriter of All
- Best Limited Documentary Series: Lion
- Best Ongoing Documentary Series: 30 for 30
- Best Narration: John Wilson for The History of Concrete
Special honors
Ron Howard received the Critics Choice Impact Award, and Jehane Noujaim received the Pennebaker Award, presented by Chris Hegedus.
What it means for the Oscars
Not as much as the sweep suggests. TheWrap notes that in the awards’ first ten years the Critics Choice winner went on to win the Best Documentary Feature Oscar only twice, for O.J.: Made in America and Summer of Soul. Last year’s winner, The Perfect Neighbor, was nominated for an Oscar but did not win. Oscar nominations have not been announced, so any talk of nominations for You Can See Everything is speculation.
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