Mike Tyson was one of the great fighters in Boxing History whose volatile personality ruined his career. He did very well in spite of himself but fans are left wondering how great could he have been without jail time and personality difficulties?
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At the 2010 Oscars the high-profile "Tyson" was bypassed in favor of less visible movies.
The documentary branch has often been a center of controversy, as a large and growing number of documentarians each year press for recognition and question decisions that have often slighted relatively popular films in favor of smaller and more obscure ones. Eyebrows were raised when widely viewed documentaries like “Tyson,” from James Toback, and “Capitalism: A Love Story” from Mr. Moore, were overlooked in favor of less visible movies.
Only recently has the Academy eased life for often-struggling documentarians by allowing them to qualify films by having them released during the calendar year, rather than meeting a deadline that previously fell months earlier in the year.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/09/movies/documentarians-concerned-about-proposed-oscar-rule.html?_r=1
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