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...could win you big money in a trivia contest some day, so save this list: Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter, D-Day Remembered, Freedom on My Mind, A Great Day in Harlem and Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision. One of these films will win this year's Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. And a host of moviewise people will mutter, "Yeah, well, it shoulda been Hoop Dreams...
...voters have been called creaky (retired folks with time on their hands) and conservative (preferring a no-risk, pbs-style format). They are also frequently accused of cronyism. The co-producer of one of the new nominees, Maya Lin, is Freida Lee Mock, the committee's chairwoman. Though Mock stepped off the panel this year, critic Roger Ebert sees the nomination as "logrolling. It's something you expect in pie-baking contests at the county fair." Many past nominated films have been made by committee members or have been distributed by Direct Cinema, a company run by committee sachem Mitchell...
That fall, he ran for vice chair and was defeated by Maya G. Prabhu '94. In February 1993, Byes, who was still razzed as "De La Mike," ran for chair...
...Next Maya Angelou...
Consider the achievements since 1993 alone, when Bill Clinton invited Maya Angelou to be the first poet since Robert Frost to read an original work at a presidential Inauguration. George C. Wolfe won a Tony Award for his direction of Angels in America. Novelist Toni Morrison became the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Rita Dove was appointed the country's first black poet laureate. Two works inspired by the Rodney King affair -- 56 Blows, a symphony by Alvin Singleton, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, a one- woman docudrama by playwright and performer Anna Deavere Smith...