'You Can See Everything' Sweeps All Five Categories at Critics Choice Documentary Awards

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's "You Can See Everything" won all five of its categories at the Critics Choice Association's documentary awards, including Best Documentary Feature. The A24 film, which profiles disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, also took Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Music Score.

Ava DuVernay's "14th" entered the night with the most nominations, six, and won nothing.

Who won what?

The full sweep by "You Can See Everything" covered the craft categories as well as the top prize:

• Best Director: Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim
• Best Cinematography: David Bolen
• Best Editing: Adam Locke-Norton
• Best Score: Ari Balouzian

The film's distributor, A24, is campaigning for the documentary to receive both Best Documentary and Best Picture nominations at the Academy Awards. No documentary has ever received a Best Picture nomination. If "You Can See Everything" achieves it, the film would be the first.

What does the sweep change for the Oscar race?

Possibly little. In the last 10 years, the Critics Choice Association and the Academy have agreed on the best documentary winner only twice, with "O.J.: Made in America" and "Summer of Soul." The sweep does not hurt the film's prospects, but it is not necessarily a predictor either.

Many awards season pundits currently favor a different film, "Naza," for the Best Documentary Oscar. "Naza" won Best Political Documentary at these awards. Neon distributes it.

The other winners

David Greaves' "Once Upon a Time in Harlem" won three awards: Best First Documentary Feature, Best Historical Documentary and Best Archival Documentary. Alex Gibney's four-hour "Musk" took Best Biographical Documentary.

John Wilson won Best Narration for writing and performing the narration of "A History of Concrete." Baz Luhrmann's maximalist "EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert" won Best Music Documentary.

The remaining category winners:

• Best Science/Nature Documentary: "Nuisance Bear" (Mubi)
• Best Sports Documentary: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin's "Everest: The Other Side" (National Geographic Documentary Films)
• Best True Crime Documentary (tie): "The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare" (Netflix) and "Lost Women of Alaska" (Investigation Discovery)
• Best Short Documentary: "The Baddest Speechwriter of All" (Netflix)
• Best Limited Documentary Series: "Lion" (National Geographic)
• Best Ongoing Documentary Series: "30 for 30" (ESPN)

The road to the Academy Awards

The Critics Choice results arrive mid-campaign, with A24 pushing aggressively on both fronts. The Academy's documentary branch has diverged from critics' groups for most of the past decade. The Best Picture question remains the larger one: a nomination there would break a barrier no nonfiction film has crossed, and the coming weeks of Academy voting will show whether the sweep moved voters or merely confirmed an already strong contender.