Lance Oppenheim's Elizabeth Holmes Film Sparks Best Picture Buzz for 1st Documentary
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Updated · Vulture · Oct 19
Lance Oppenheim's Elizabeth Holmes Film Sparks Best Picture Buzz for 1st Documentary
3 articles · Updated · Vulture · Oct 19
Summary
You Can See Everything follows Elizabeth Holmes through her final month before starting an 11-year prison term in Bryan, Texas, with Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder filming intimate scenes up to her prison arrival.
Oscar speculation has quickly centered on whether the film could become the first documentary ever nominated for Best Picture, driven by its unusual access to Holmes and its stark portrait of her denial after the Theranos fraud case.
Nathan Fielder moved in with Holmes's family during the shoot, while the film later expanded through Amanda Seyfried's recorded reaction and reenactments of prison visits that cameras could not capture.
The release caps a breakout year for 30-year-old Oppenheim, whose Robert Pattinson feature Primetime premiered at Venice less than 24 hours before the documentary's surprise Telluride debut.
The project also fractured Oppenheim's relationship with Holmes's partner Billy Evans, who he says later tried to assert control over the film, underscoring the documentary's broader tension between access, performance and truth.