14th Leads With Six Nominations as 11th Critics Choice Documentary Awards Unveil Winners Live

Ava DuVernay's 14th enters the 11th annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards with a field-leading six nominations. The Netflix title competes in Best Documentary Feature, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Music Score, Best Political Documentary and Best Historical Documentary. But the race's center of gravity sits elsewhere: Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's You Can See Everything, the A24 film with five nominations that Hollywood, by the source's account, cannot stop discussing.

What does Sunday change for the Oscar race?

The ceremony at the Edison Ballroom in New York City is one of the first major tests of awards season for You Can See Everything. A24 is campaigning the film for both Best Documentary Feature and Best Picture at the Oscars — a dual bid no documentary has ever converted into a Best Picture nomination. A win Sunday would give the campaign measurable momentum, though the Academy's documentary branch has not always embraced celebrity-driven films.

The Oscar favorite, per Gold Derby's odds, is Naza by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor. The Neon release earned three nominations here, including Best Feature and Best Director. History warns against reading the CCA as an Oscar predictor: only two of the CCA's 10 previous Best Documentary Feature winners — O.J.: Made in America and Summer of Soul — went on to win the Oscar.

Three films tied at five nominations each: You Can See Everything, David Greaves' Once Upon a Time in Harlem (Neon) and Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman's Nuisance Bear (Mubi).

When and how to watch

Winners will be revealed Sunday night, with Ross Mathews as emcee. The ceremony streams live at 7 p.m. ET (4 p.m. PT) on YouTube, X, Facebook and CriticsChoice.com. The winners list updates in real time during the broadcast.

Who is nominated?

Best Documentary Feature (nine nominees): 14th (Netflix); Everest: The Other Side (National Geographic Documentary Films); Everybody to Kenmure Street (Icarus Films); The History of Concrete (Magnolia Pictures); Musk (Bleecker Street); Naza (Neon); Once Upon a Time in Harlem (Neon); Rehearsals for a Revolution (Sony Pictures Classics); Remake (Music Box Films); You Can See Everything (A24).

Best Director (six nominees): Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor (Naza); Felipe Bustos Sierra (Everybody to Kenmure Street); Ava DuVernay (14th); Nathan Fielder & Lance Oppenheim (You Can See Everything); Ross McElwee (Remake); Orlando von Einsiedel (The Cycle of Love).

Best First Documentary Feature: Once Upon a Time in Harlem — David Greaves; EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert — Baz Luhrmann; Nuisance Bear — Gabriela Osio Vanden & Jack Weisman; The Python Hunt — Xander Robin; American Doctor — Poh Si Teng; The History of Concrete — John Wilson.

Craft categories: Best Cinematography includes David Bolen (You Can See Everything) and the Everest team of Clair Popkin, Jimmy Chin and Christopher Murphy. Best Editing pits Spencer Averick (14th) against Adam Locke-Norton (You Can See Everything). Best Music Score includes Ari Balouzian, Hans Zimmer (Lion), Dan Deacon, Caroline Ho, Jason Moran and Cristóbal Tapia de Veer.

Genre and series races: Best Music Documentary spans EPiC, Man on the Run and an Earth, Wind & Fire HBO Max title. Best Political Documentary includes 14th, Musk, Naza and Union Town. Best Biographical Documentary fields Avedon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lorne, Marty, Life Is Short, Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! and Musk. Eight short documentaries and seven limited series — including 9/11: Reunited, The Dark Wizard and The Dynasty: UConn Huskies — round out the ballot, alongside seven ongoing series led by ESPN's 30 for 30.