DGA Bars You Can See Everything From Feature Directing Prize

The Directors Guild of America has ruled that You Can See Everything is ineligible for its theatrical feature directing award, limiting the film to the guild’s documentary directing category. The decision concerns DGA awards and does not determine the film’s eligibility for the Academy Awards’ Best Picture category. A DGA representative confirmed the category decision, which follows the guild’s rulebook barring documentaries from its Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film award. The film, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, is therefore eligible only for the DGA’s Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary prize. The distinction leaves other awards bodies to make their own eligibility decisions. A24’s awards site lists the film for both Academy Best Picture and documentary feature submissions, as well as other categories. The DGA ruling does not establish whether the Academy will consider it in either category, or whether it could be considered in both. The film follows Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes around the period before and after she began serving a prison sentence for defrauding investors. Its unconventional form combines...