‘You Can See Everything’ is the big Critics Choice Documentary Awards winner
By Google News Category Documentaries ·
NEW YORK- You Can See Everything is clearly a phenomenon, but is it an awards juggernaut too? It seems to have passed its first test on Sunday night.
At the Critics Choice Documentary Awards, which I both attended and voted on as a member of the Critics Choice Association, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheimer’s documentary about Elizabeth Holmes won five awards, including Best Documentary Feature.
The film won in all five categories in which it was nominated, also winning Best Director (Fielder and Oppenheim), Best Cinematography (David Bolen), Best Editing (Adam Locke-Norton), and Best Score (Ari Balouzian).
It’s been, as I’ve said a few times, an outstanding year for documentaries, but You Can See Everything is pretty clearly the doc of the year.
The other big winner was Once Upon a Time in Harlem, which won three awards: Best First Documentary Feature, Best Archival Documentary, and Best Historical Documentary.
Several other features won one award each: The History of Concrete (Best Narration), Musk (Best Biographical Documentary); EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (Best Music Documentary); NAZA (Best Political Documentary); Nuisance Bear (Best Science/Nature Documentary), and Everest: The Other Side (Best Sports Documentary), while The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare and Lost Women of Alaska tied for Best True Crime
Documentary.
Other winners included The Best Speechwriter Ever (Best Documentary Short); Lion (Best Limited Documentary Series); and 30 for 30 (Best Ongoing Documentary Series).
The evening’s two special awards went to Ron Howard (Critics Choice Impact Award) and Jehane Noujaim (Pennebaker Award), with the former presented by Frank Oz and the latter by Chris Hegedus. I had the honor of being seated at a table with Noujaim and Hegedus.
The Documentary Awards have become one of my favorite nights of the year, something I always look forward to throughout the fall. As you know, I watch tons of documentaries, and I really enjoy talking to documentary filmmakers.
Originally published by Google News Category Documentaries
