 This film helped change the rules for how the Academy of Motion  Picture Arts & Sciences hands out Academy Awards for Documentary  work. When this film failed to get an nomination for Best  Documentary, even though it was nominated for Best Film Editing,  Entertainment Weekly magazine ran a story about how the organization  voted for documentary nominations. They discovered that not only  were most of the people voting not documentary filmmakers but that  they actually worked against giving this film a nomination. As a  result, the rules were changed so that documentary filmmakers  actually vote in this category.