Column: 'You Can See Everything' just made itself impossible for Oscar voters to ignore

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Set us as preferred The best-reviewed movie of the year runs nearly three hours, has launched a thousand memes and just enjoyed one of the biggest opening weekends of any documentary in film history.And “You Can See Everything” is just getting started.

From the moment it had its world premiere last month at a Telluride Film Festival surprise screening, this boundary-breaking chronicle of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ fall from grace became the year’s buzziest movie.Fans started lining up outside Lincoln Center at 3 a.m.

a couple of weeks ago for a chance to score standby tickets for the movie’s New York Film Festival premiere.Celebrities packed a subsequent screening at the motion picture academy’s museum in Los Angeles.

Trent Reznor, Elizabeth Olsen, Steven Yeun and “Hacks” castmates Megan Stalter and Hannah Einbinder were among the attendees eager for an early look, though the two people drawing the most attention were the film’s directors, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim.“I still am not sure to this day like what I experienced, and it’s one of the reasons I’m excited for it to come out and more people see it,” Fielder told the audience at a Q&A following the L.A.

screening.“It was just a small group for so long, and I actually think maybe it being out there, everyone can help me understand what I went through a little bit.”The movie leaves you with many questions — about Holmes, about the slippery nature of truth and about the objectivity of documentary filmmaking itself.

And, in the wake of its spectacular success (it grossed $15 million on 855 screens this weekend, the second best opening ever for a documentary), it gives rise to another question: Will “You Can See Everything” make Oscar history and become the first documentary nominated for the best picture?If the votin...