Man on Wire, featuring music from a number of Michael Nyman’s most important soundtracks, won the Oscar for Best Documentary feature during at the 81st annual Academy Awards. The film, recently released on DVD, follows Philippe Petit’s incredible high wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center buildings in New York in 1974.
Michael Nyman one of Britain’s most innovative and celebrated composers was presented with a CBE by HRH The Queen, at Buckingham Palace today. Nyman’s guests at the ceremony were estranged wife, Aet Nyman and his two daughters, Molly and Martha.
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