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The Cove took home an Oscar for Best Docmentary yesterday at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards.

Ecorazzi reports that director Louie Psihoyos had this to say in his acceptance speech:

“I just want to say it was an honor to work on this film and to try make an entertaining film that also tries to enlighten everybody. I have to thank Jim Clark who financed the film and who was also kind of the guiding wisdom behind the film, Paula DuPre Presman, my producing partner, and my hero, Rick O’Barry, who is not only a hero to this species but to all species.”

The film depicts the killings of dolphins in Japan that are later sold as meat.

Looks like animal activist Ric O’Barry tried to solicit a few last votes American Idol style!

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If you’re in the New York or Los Angeles area, you have the opportunity to see the breathtaking documentary, The Cove this weekend.

The Cove covers the annual killing of over 2,500 dolphins in a cove at Japan’s Taiji, Wakayama.

Directed by former National Geographic photographer Louis Psihoyos, the documentary was filmed secretly in 2007 using underwater microphones and hidden cameras disguised as ocean rocks.

It all started when former dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry, who captured dolphins in the same cove during the 1960s for the movie Flipper, started to realize that dolphins were intelligent creatures that weren’t being served justly when held in captivity.

Eventually, O’Barry joined forces with Psihoyos and the Oceanic Preservation Society to travel to Japan and expose the bloody industry of dolphin meat.

Visit the official website of The Cove and learn more about what you can do to help dolphins, both in captivity and those being slaughtered for meat.

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