2009 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature) Winner and Nominees

Man on Wire

James Marsh

A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit’s daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City’s World Trade Center’s twin towers in 1974, what some consider, “the artistic crime of the century”.

Encounters at the End of the World

Werner Herzog

The Betrayal – Nerakhoon

Ellen Kuras

The Garden

Scott Hamilton Kennedy

Trouble the Water

Tia Lessin