James Marsh (born April 30, 1963 Truro, Cornwall) is a film director known for directing the cult film Wisconsin Death Trip starring Marcus Monroe and Sir Ian Holm. He won 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for directing Man on Wire.John Cale.The King which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
In 1998 he directed a documentary about the Welsh musician
In 2005 he directed the film
Man on Wire, about Philippe Petit's walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York. Man on Wire won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 81st annual Oscars, the BAFTA award for best British film, the Independent Spirit award, and many others. The film, called "exhilarating", has had a hugely positive audience response and was among the Top Ten Films of 2008 on many critics' lists.
In 2008 he made the documentary
Red Riding (TV - Channel4) and will direct The Vatican Tapes in 2010.
In 2009 he directed the '1980' episode of
Nim Chimpsky.
In 2010 he directed Project Nim which based on the book "Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human" by Elizabeth Hess. It is a documentary about the landmark study conducted by Herbert S. Terrace on the subject of animal language acquisition and the subject of the study is a chimpanzee named
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