r/boxoffice • u/chanma50 Best of 2019 Winner • 13h ago

Domestic A24's You Can See Everything grossed an estimated $5.54M domestically on Friday (from 855 locations), including previews.

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u/Block-Busted 13h ago

I still have doubts that it will actually win Best Picture when The Odyssey is right there.

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u/supernerdlove 12h ago

Yeah, I think it’s a longshot, but could you imagine going back to the beginning of the year and telling someone that actually the Odyssey is not gonna win best picture but a Nathan Felder documentary is.

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u/Block-Busted 12h ago edited 12h ago

Those people seem to be kind of ignorant, honestly. In fact, I'd imagine that a documentary film winning Best Picture in a single try is likely to stir a HUGE controversy considering that non-English films had to try several times to get there and animated films haven't won Best Picture yet.

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u/rotates-potatoes 12h ago edited 11h ago

Sure but that’s after the fact. Oscar voters think about the films, their friends and enemies, the marketing campaigns, what it means for them personally. The potential controversy over a documentary winning on first try would be somewhere down around the weather in Buenos Aires next June as a consideration.

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u/Block-Busted 12h ago

I mean, it could end up ruining the credibility of the ceremony even further. For one, Toy Story 3 lost to The King's Speech, which baffled a lot of people.

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u/Salad-Appropriate 12h ago

I mean it was the social network that people were pissed about but sure

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u/delayedkarma 9h ago

For me, Black Swan was the most deserving. That's the problem with really strong Oscar years. If there are several bold choices that have their fans, then the ranked choice voting kicks in and you get the safest option. See Spotlight and Green Book as well.

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u/Salad-Appropriate 9h ago

I should give spotlight a rewatch, think it's generally regarded as one of the better 2010s Best Picture winners (behind Moonlight but that's not saying much)

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u/Block-Busted 12h ago

Probably both, if you ask me.

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u/gangbrain 9h ago

Nah man, Toy Story 3 is great but not Best Picture that year.

Social Network was clearly the most deserving but Black Swan was also very deserving. I’d also give it to Inception and 127 Hours over TS3.

The year was stacked and King Speech was one of the least deserving of all BP nominees.

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u/Block-Busted 9h ago

Actually, Toy Story 3 is better-received than some of those examples.

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u/gangbrain 9h ago

What, are you looking at RT or IMDB? Lol.

Toy Story 3 is a crowd-pleasing emotional nostalgia trip. It being “better received” has everything to do with being a movie made for everyone and not a challenging drama movie.

Any serious cinephiles will acknowledge Social Network and Black Swan are better movies.

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u/HarlequinKing1406 Focus Features 9h ago

Not a soul would claim that the credibility of the Oscars would be ruined by a documentary winning. If anything, people would see it as a great achievement that one was finally able to do it.

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u/Block-Busted 9h ago

No, dude. Documentary film winning Best Picture in a single try could end up being seen as a major category encroachment that cannot even be compared to a foreign film or an animated film winning Best Picture.

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u/HarlequinKing1406 Focus Features 9h ago

People said Parasite winning was a "major category encroachment" or whatever the fuck that means, it meant jackshit in the end.

I'm not even predicting this to win, but a movie that has a 98 on MC and a 4.8 on Letterboxd would not suddenly be seen as a "terrible bullshit credibility destroying win!" just because it's a documentary. It would be seen as an incredibly cool win that showed the Academy was willing to expand their barriers of what defined the best film of the year. And it sounds like you're bitter that it's happening with not an animated film.

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u/Block-Busted 9h ago

Dude, some of the voters are likely to be actors and they could actually see this as a potential encroachment even with a certain actress involved in this.

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u/HarlequinKing1406 Focus Features 8h ago

A friendly reminder that actors have the largest voting branch in the Academy. If YCSE wins then the actors are contributing to the victory.

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u/archimedesrex 12h ago

I don't think there is much reason to think that The Odyssey is some kind of lock. Action blockbusters are historically not an Academy favorite. A nomination is probably a lock, but a win is far from guaranteed.

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u/Block-Busted 12h ago

It's probably a lot more likely to win than this does. Besides, One Battle After Another is technically an action film too.

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u/archimedesrex 12h ago

YCSE certainly has its own hill to climb as a documentary. I would say it has an improbable path to a BP win as well. I just don't think The Odyssey is the default alternative. One Battle was a lot more Oscar friendly. I'll grant there is more precedent for Odyssey to win (Gladiator and Lord of the Rings lend some credibility in somewhat recent history).

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u/SaxifrageRussel Warner Bros. Pictures 12h ago

Odyssey is the huge favorite

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u/Ok_Jellyfish_55 12h ago

Yeah they do win but they have to disguise themselves as something other than an action movie.

Braveheart, Gladiator, Return of the King, are epics

Hurt Locker is war film.

One Battle is a political thriller or something.

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u/Block-Busted 12h ago

The Odyssey is an epic as well, so there's that.

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u/Ok_Jellyfish_55 12h ago

Right. It’s not look at like an action movie but an epic.

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u/rotates-potatoes 12h ago

What’s the technical definition of “an action film”?

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u/Block-Busted 12h ago

Well, that film does have no shortage of action scenes, for instance.

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u/AgentUnlucky4323 12h ago

People are not ready for what La bola negra is going to do too. I also agree The Odyssey isn't a lock. Probably going to be the most nominated film of the year though

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u/Block-Busted 12h ago

Well, critical reception for La bola negra kind of slipped, so there's that.

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u/AgentUnlucky4323 12h ago

Bro just wait until you've watched La bola negra and You can see everything before you talk. Some of your comments are a bit embarassing

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u/Block-Busted 12h ago

Again, my main point is that documentary films have a HUGE uphill battle when it comes to getting nominated for Best Picture, let alone winning one.

Also, La bola negra now has 88% on Rotten Tomatoes with 8.4/10 average, which is still high, but not as high as you might be thinking.

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u/AgentUnlucky4323 12h ago

You sound like you're pissed that everyone isn't only talking about The Odyssey because you liked that movie. I liked it too. But I've also watched La bola negra. The Academy (which is not the same people that post reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, they're not critics) will love it. I'm sure of it. Also, Nolan won big not even half a decade ago so maybe he won't get picture or director again

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u/Block-Busted 12h ago

You sound like you're pissed that everyone isn't only talking about The Odyssey because you liked that movie.

Actually, it has more to do with people who seem to think that this film is locked to win Best Picture already.

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u/AgentUnlucky4323 12h ago

Log off for a bit

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u/Block-Busted 12h ago

I mean, I'm seeing few of those people on this very thread already.

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u/SaxifrageRussel Warner Bros. Pictures 12h ago

I think it’s more likely they give Odyssey BP and Fielder BD

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u/Block-Busted 12h ago

I'm not sure if even Best Director is likely for this. I can see it potentially getting a Best Editing nomination or even win, though.

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u/Eatatfiveguys 12h ago

Dune is also up there for picture if it’s as good as we expect. The Odyssey is not at all locked but You Can See Everything isn’t in contention to win BP atm. I think it will get nominated though.

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u/Laurel-Hardy-Fan 12h ago

It’s a better movie than The Odyssey. 

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u/Block-Busted 12h ago

But being a documentary film puts it at a SEVERE disadvantage regardless of its critical reception.

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u/Mordoch 12h ago edited 11h ago

I think being a documentary pretty much makes it a nonstarter in terms of winning because of the portion of the voters who are actors and would at least want to effectively promote movies with actual actors in it. (While highly farfetched, if documentaries really became the popular type of movie allot of them would be out of a job or making allot less.)

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u/twersx 10h ago

I don't think this winning BP would change the sort of movies that are being made or even lead to more docu BP wins in the future. The nature of this film makes it pretty unique as a documentary and in a way that I think people who make narrative feature films will generally like. Beyond that, Fielder seems to be pretty popular with people in the industry, especially people he's worked with, and that can have an influence on the race.

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u/Mordoch 10h ago

My primary point would be that winning best picture normally effectively makes a number of actors/ actresses involved with the movie look good and get to celebrate to a degree. While Amanda Seyfield did end up playing a role in this specific case with the documentary, that is not the equivalent of a bunch of actors/ actresses being involved and typical documentaries will still not have this occur. (Keep in mind an awful lot of voting for best picture is from actors, and in terms of industry, its not like a documentary needs a bunch of set construction or costuming.) I can see paranoia about this issue at least being an additional reason not to vote for a documentary for some making this decision.

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u/Laurel-Hardy-Fan 12h ago

I don’t disagree. It’s that special of a film though 

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u/Block-Busted 12h ago

I don't think that truly matters, if I'm being honest.

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u/Laurel-Hardy-Fan 12h ago

You don’t think being a fascinating work of art that is extremely relevant to our present day matters for a potential Oscar? That the themes it tackles are so relevant I think very much matters. 

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u/Atkena2578 12h ago

How is it relevant to our present days? About liars and narcissists? We elected one POTUS... twice... you think we re not used to even more egregious narcissists scaming their ways into much higher positions of power than a former tech CEO who is a also a convicted felon?

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u/Laurel-Hardy-Fan 12h ago

It’s much more about the slipperiness of truth and manipulation than specifically Holmes. 

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u/Atkena2578 12h ago

That's my understanding and unfortunately we re past that point, if we cared about the truth, we wouldn't have that guy, serial liar in every possible way, as president...

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u/Laurel-Hardy-Fan 12h ago

So wouldn’t that make the film relevant to present day like I said? 

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u/Block-Busted 12h ago edited 8h ago

A lot of documentary films have tackled very relevant themes before and yet, none of them were nominated for Best Picture.

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u/Laurel-Hardy-Fan 12h ago

And very rarely do they get unanimous critical and audience praise like this. 

Again, I’m with you on it being unlikely, but I’m not counting it out. Especially when I thought The Odyssey was just an okay popcorn flick and this is one of the best films I’ve seen in the last 10-15 years. 

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u/Block-Busted 12h ago

I'm counting it out until I actually see it happening at least partly because I can see how voters might not want to give Best Picture to a documentary film on a single try.

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u/Atkena2578 12h ago

That's not true, many documentaries score high 90s metascore or RT... NAZA, another documentary in the race this year has a MT of 94 ot 95... I am sure there are other examples. Documentaries aren't judged the same way as a feature film by critics. It's nice that it gets shown in theaters more than your typical documentary, the director has an existing fan base and the topic in itself is known at least in the US (like i read bad blood, watched the dropout, followed the Holmes trial).

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u/Laurel-Hardy-Fan 12h ago

Hence why I said critical AND audience praise. This is a special film, I would not be surprised at all to see it be nominated and a serious contender for Best Picture. 

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u/rotates-potatoes 12h ago

A lot of days have had calendar dates, but none has ever been October 17 2026 before, so that must not be the date today either.

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u/Block-Busted 12h ago

I'm sorry, what kind of argument even is this?

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u/Block-Busted 8h ago

And based on what I've heard, that aspect could ironically end up hindering its chance.

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u/Livid_Information_46 12h ago

Apples and Oranges. I saw it last night and loved it, but have no intention of seeing it again until it's on streaming. I saw the Odyssey 3 times in IMAX 

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u/pumpkinpie7809 12h ago

Rewatchability isn't an indication of quality though

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u/Laurel-Hardy-Fan 12h ago

Conversely, I saw The Odyssey once and likely never will again whereas I already have made plans to see You Can See Everything again next week. 

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u/JarvisCockerBB 12h ago

The Odyssey is right there but voters may think, Nolan already won recently, so they may opt for a new winner.

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u/Atkena2578 12h ago

Voters don't care. They vote for the movie they liked. Or else Sean Penn wouldn't have won his 3rd last year, Ludwig Goransson won 3 in less than 10 years, Emma Stone won her second in less than 10 too... Frances Mc Dormand won her 2nd and 3rd very close as well...

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u/Block-Busted 12h ago

I don't think it will be this one, though. For one, documentary film winning Best Picture on a single try could result in a HUGE controversy.

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u/twersx 10h ago

What would the controversy be? They've picked dogshit films for BP in the past, some that were immediately controversial like Crash or Green Book. The worst case scenario for the Academy is that the general public don't think this movie is that good and they see the Academy as being out of touch - but they don't really care about that.

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u/Block-Busted 10h ago

It's one thing to give Best Picture to weaker films, but giving it to a documentary is something else entirely, especially if it wins in a single try whereas foreign films had to try it several times before one of them finally broke the barrier.

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u/HarlequinKing1406 Focus Features 9h ago

If anything, if this somehow won it'd likely be seen as a deeply inspired pick, and a sign that the Academy's changing and increasing membership has worked for the better and allowed for these kinds of radical wins that would have never happened before.

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u/Block-Busted 8h ago

No, it won't. If anything, it could cause a huge friction between voters and could be seen as an encroachment.

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u/visionaryredditor A24 5h ago

it could cause a huge friction between voters and could be seen as an encroachment.

How?

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u/JarvisCockerBB 12h ago

I don’t think you’re gonna find another documentary this well received though. I think what it will do is make awards more of a coin toss because how even the odds will be. I was thinking Odyssey is the absolute frontrunner but not anymore.

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u/Block-Busted 12h ago

Actually, there are a lot of well-received documentary films out there (on the level of this).

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u/patrick66 6h ago

There are not. This is literally the highest mass appeal of any documentary ever

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u/Block-Busted 5h ago

There were actually documentary films that were considered as possible Best Picture candidates before.

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u/visionaryredditor A24 5h ago

Somebody never heard about Fahrenheit 9/11, I see

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u/Block-Busted 8h ago

Some people here actually seem to be assuming that it will actually win Best Picture based on what they're posting.

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u/DC-COVID-TRASH 10h ago

I don’t think the odyssey is a lock, it’s a good movie but a lot of the special sauce for it is the imax and set design and such, I don’t think it came together to be a best picture

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u/Block-Busted 10h ago

Well, this certainly isn't a lock either. In fact, there's a real chance that it might not even be nominated.