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A surprise performance in 'You Can See Everything' is earning Oscar shouts
A surprise performance in the back half of Nathan Fielder’s splashy Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything is being hailed as being worthy of an Academy Award nomination. But are they even eligible?
This is your last chance to stop reading before having the big twist in You Can See Everything revealed to you.
Spoiler warning: This post reveals the surprise in You Can See Everything.
In the third act of You Can See Everything, after losing access to Elizabeth Holmes due to her prison sentence beginning, Fielder recruits Academy Award-nominated actress Amanda Seyfried, who won an Emmy for portraying Holmes in the hit Hulu series The Dropout, to the project.
Not only do Seyfried and Fielder reenact scenes that unfolded before cameras were rolling, but Seyfried dove headfirst into the ethos of the project and even joined Fielder for a trip to the home of Holmes’ partner, Billy Evans, where she brazenly confronted him.
Amanda Seyfried is technically eligible for an Oscar nomination for her surprise role in the documentary You Can See Everything
According to reports, while Seyfried likely won’t be eligible for a SAG Actor Award, she does qualify for the Oscars, with The Ringer’s The Big Picture podcast finding no rule keeping her out. Documentary subjects usually aren’t considered for performance awards because they aren’t performing. Seyfried, though, is doing a bit of both.
Not only do I think this should be a Best Picture nominee — but there’s also a performance in here that A) *makes* the movie and elevates it to the form-breaker it is, and B) is worth discussing being worthy of its own nomination.
— Eric Italiano (@ericitaIiano) October 16, 2026
The Oscars have flirted with this before, as Maria Bakalova earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, a comedy built around real people who didn’t know the joke.
Seyfried, a Best Supporting Actress nominee for Mank, has been cagey about her role in the film, as she told reporters at the Academy Museum Gala not to “ask me anything!”
Amanda Seyfried says she “doesn’t know” if she’d want to meet Elizabeth Holmes but has kept up with her story “on and off” since “The Dropout.”
#AcademyMuseumGala https://t.co/9MJ3VwCUJm
— Variety (@Variety) October 18, 2026
You Can See Everything accomplished a historic box office feat over its debut weekend as it shattered expectations with a stunning $15 million domestic debut, making it the second-biggest opening weekend for a non-musical documentary in domestic box office history (behind only 2004’s Fahrenheit 9/11).