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Best Documentary Features | 1997 | David
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Best Documentary | 1997
Best Documentary | 1997
Best NonFiction Film | 1996
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Best DocumentaryNonFiction Film | 1996 | Leon
Documentary | 1996 | Leon
Best Editing | 2017 | Taylor
Outstanding News Talk or Information Special | 1998
Best Documentary Picture | 1997 | Taylor
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary | 1997 | Leon
Box Office Collection 2,666,118 USD
When the film won the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary, George Foreman and Muhammad Ali came to the stage with the filmmakers to show they had made peace. Foreman helped Ali, stricken with Parkinson's Disease, climb the steps to the stage.
Almost all of the footage was shot in 1974. The film took 23 years to complete because the negatives and rights were caught up in civil suits involving the Liberians who financed it.
This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #998.
Amongst the guest stars featured was soul singer James Brown.
"Muhammad Ali: It is befitting that I leave the game just like I came in, beating a big bad monster who knocks out everybody and no one can whup him. That's when little Cassius Clay from Louisville, Kentucky, came up to stop Sonny Liston. The man who annihilated Floyd Patterson twice. HE WAS GONNA KILL ME! But he hit harder than George. His reach is longer than George's. He's a better boxer than George. And I'm better now than I was when you saw that 22-years old undeveloped kid running from Sonny Liston. I'm experienced now, professional. Jaws been broke, been knocked down a couple of times, I'm bad! Been chopping trees. I done something new for this fight. I done wrestled with an alligator. That's right. I have wrestled with an alligator. I done tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail. That's bad! Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick! I'm so mean I make medicine sick! Don King: Bad dude! Muhammad Ali: Bad, fast! Fast! Fast! Last night I cut the light off in my bedroom, hit the switch and was in the bed before the room was dark."
"Muhammad Ali: I'm young, I'm handsome, I'm fast, I'm pretty and can't possibly be beat."
