Could You Can See Everything Actually Win Best Picture?

Zachary Roberts Published 26/10/2026

Critics are calling You Can See Everything a genre-transcending movie, with some even proclaiming it one of the most important films ever. Does that mean it can win the Oscar’s Best Picture when a documentary has never even received a nomination for that award?

You Can See Everything surges into the conversation

There has been some chatter about You Can See Everything sneaking into the Best Picture category at the Academy Awards. But if you ask Polymarket traders, it doesn’t just deserve a nomination. It might deserve to win the award.

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It’s still The Odyssey’s award to lose, but momentarily, You Can See Everything was right there with it. On October 6, You Can See Everything was 0.5% ahead of The Odyssey. Since then, it has dropped. However, with a wider release in the last two weeks, it is surging again. After October 6, it dropped to 1.1%, and it has climbed up to nearly 29% now — a substantial change in the implied probability.

Why it’s even being considered

There is a dedicated documentary section at the Oscars. However, this isn’t like the Best International Feature category — those movies can and often do infiltrate the Best Picture section. They are movies, and they can be good enough to rank among the best 10. It doesn’t happen hardly ever, but they can win, too (see Parasite).

This is totally different, though. Because the documentary format is very different from a feature film format, there has nen3ver even been a nomination for a documentary. They have always been restricted solely to their own category.

That’s what has made You Can See Everything so fascinating. It seems to transcend its format, and the reviews are so unfathomably good that it’s impossible to ignore it in the conversation about the best 10 pictures this year.

On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 97% Critic Score and a 97% Audience Score. On IMDb, it’s at a 9.3/10. The best movie on IMDb is The Shawshank Redemption with a 9.3. It doesn’t qualify, but You Can See Everything would rank in the top five all-time on Letterboxd with its 4.6 average (down from what was, at one point, an impossible 4.8).

☑️ My Take

After seeing the movie, I can totally understand the hype and the reason the movie is getting so much Best Picture buzz. It is one of the best and most important movies of the year, certainly. For that, it deserves a historic nomination.

But it probably shouldn’t win. There’s something intrinsically different about a documentary, even a transcendent one. Plus, even just comparing films, it’s not quite as good as The Odyssey. The first half of You Can See Everything meanders around for a bit before truly locking in, so it isn’t quite Best Picture material.

That said, a nomination would be well-deserved, and it’s no surprise it’s getting love on this prediction market so soon after release.

Cover image via A24

Zachary Roberts

About Zachary Roberts

Zachary Roberts is an avid gamer and writer that loves to merge those things. He’s been featured on VideoGamer, ComicBook, New Leaf, Esports.net, and Sportskeeda as well as the On SI network of Sports Illustrated and Sporting News.

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