Man on Wire gets Oscar for Best Documentary Film

Mon, Feb 23, 2009

Hollywood

The James Marsh directed ‘Man on Wire’ has won the 81st Academy Award for the Best Documentary Film. The 90-minute documentary is about Philippe Petit’s high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York. The World Trade Center was destroyed by the Al-Qaeda during the September 11 attacks in 2001. This documentary ‘Man on Wire’ features footage from the events of Frenchman Philippe Petit’s 1974 high-wire walk along with the homework that he had done to achieve the feat.

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