Man on Wire/Awesome

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Philippe Petit when he joined the film's producers when they won the Best Documentary Feature Oscar. After impishly breaking his own rule about giving the shortest Oscar acceptance speech ever, he resorts to merely giving the coolest one when he, with a friend's lucky coin in hand, says "I want to thank the Academy for believing in magic." as he made the coin disappear. He then flawlessly balanced the statuette upside-down on his chin before making it "bow" before the audience.