Sacks wrote other books from his case studies and some were turned into other movies. “And the irony of that movie in the story of Oliver Sacks is that it was that movie and its popularity that really opened up unlocked the doors to the academy and the neurological world that had been kind of shut rudely on Oliver before that.”īurns went on to say that Sacks “kind of, on his own broke down barriers, which we normally have in our minds between science and art and storytelling, because for him it was all part of the same thing.” “You know, 'Awakenings,' the film with Robert De Niro and Robin Williams, came out in 1990,” Burns says. Part of his work at the hospital was turned into the Oscar-nominated film, “Awakenings.” Burns says that film changed his professional life. He landed in the United States, which is where he discovered his life’s work at the Bronx’s Beth Abraham Hospital in 1965. Sacks fled his home in England after his mother discovered his secret and told him he was an abomination.
“But I had no idea beneath that kind of avuncular, bearded, you know, Englishman was this kind of sort of radioactive history,” Burns said. “I knew his work, didn't know him,” he says. Burns admits his knowledge of Sacks was strictly through the doctor’s work in New York City. The crew spent four months filming inside the doctor’s Greenwich Village apartment shortly before his death in August 2015. Sacks’ life is examined in the new documentary “Oliver Sacks: His Own Life.” The neurologist and best-selling author told stories about his patients, and now, facing death from inoperable cancer, Sacks told his story to Burns. Oliver Sacks after he is diagnosed with inoperable cancer
Oliver Sacks leaves England for the United States after his mother discovers he is gay Oliver Sacks’ case studies at Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx was turned into the Oscar nominated film, “Awakenings,” starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams
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