It's just one of the fascinating details to emerge from Oliver Sacks: His Own Life – a forthcoming documentary which was filmed shortly after he was diagnosed with cancer in January 2015. What is surprising, however, is that it took the release of a Hollywood movie for Sacks to finally be embraced by a medical profession that had previously ignored him. Unsurprisingly, the film earned numerous plaudits including three Oscar nominations. Starring Robert De Niro as patient Leonard Lowe who 'awakens' from a 30-year catatonia, and Robin Williams as the doctor who temporarily cures him, it introduced the world-at-large to Oliver Sacks – the brilliant real-life neurologist on whom Williams' character was based. When the film Awakenings was released in 1990, it was an immediate hit with critics and moviegoers alike.
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