Alan Berliner in his studio in the middle of the night, from his film Wide Awake, which airs on HBO. Courtesy of Alan Berliner Some people count sheep
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In 2001, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Board of Governors voted to establish a Documentary Branch--some 60 years after the first