In the late 1980s and early 1990s, they achieved box office success. Two high school basketball players lived a four-year documentary. The public photos of William Gates provide an indicative record of his appearance when he was young and herald a story of "adulthood". The distributor of "Basketball Dream" launched a campaign to get the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to nominate the film as the best film rather than the best documentary. The movement failed, but it emphasized that the sharp distinction between feature films and documentaries is often subjective and permeable.
——Bill Nichols "Introduction to Documentary Film"
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