A year ago, I walked out of the theatre for One Battle After Another and immediately predicted it would win Best Picture, Best Director and a bunch of other Academy Awards.
Wasn’t really a hard call tbh. Some films just scream Oscar bait and OBAA was an ideal vehicle to finally give Paul Thomas Anderson his flowers.
I just watched Nathan Fielder’s documentary about Elizabeth Holmes (You Can See Everything) and am getting similar Oscar Spidey tingle.
I’m clearly not the only one.
The film scored a 98% critic / 97% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes and was briefly the highest film ever on Letterboxd. Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins at The Big Picture podcast think the documentary will become the first documentary to be nominated for Best Picture.
I’m sure there’s a massive dose of recency bias. But I will say from my N=1 experience, that You Can See Everything was one of the funniest theatre experiences I’ve had in a long time.
The audience had at least a dozen legit laugh-out-loud moments watching Fielder’s unstoppable (cringe deadpan) force meeting Holmes maximally immovable (and unblinking) object.
The week afterwards has been just as good going deeeeep into the discourse and memes...so many Fielder memes.
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