“The shortest speech in Oscar history, yes! But I always break my own rules,” said the irrepressible “Man on Wire” subject Philippe Petit, when James Marsh won the Oscar for Best Documentary. Petit balanced an Oscar on his nose, gave a shout out to Werner Herzog and did a magic trick. That crazy bastard is the best.
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Ok, so he did just run up onstage after the fact. I missed it when it originally aired, as he wasn’t there and then ‘poof,’ he was.
Marsh was like, “I can’t accept this without Phillippe, so you have like 20 seconds to get up here.” So he literally just ran through the audience up to the stage.