Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making of “Akeelah and the Bee”

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Small screen success

The film won him the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship. It hit theaters six years later, becoming the first film to be produced by Starbucks. After the film enjoyed moderate critical and commercial success, Atchison signed a three-picture deal with The Weinstein Company.

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