Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs accepted the Oscar award for best documentary feature during the 83rd Academy Awards Sunday night at Kodak Theater, Los Angeles, defeating four other nominees in the category.

Ferguson is the director and producer while Marrs is the producer for the “Inside Job” as this year’s best documentary, defeating other films such as "Exit Through the Gift Shop," "Gasland," "Restrepo" and "Waste Land."

Covering a theme that is close to the hearts of millions of laborers and affected by the global meltdown recently, “Inside Job” is a film on how the financial institutions have triggered the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, according to Reuters.

According to Reuters, Ferguson, is a self-described ‘policy wonk’. And to make the film, Director Ferguson had interviewed fund managers, central bankers, and political advisers. The film, added Reuters, was able to determine the relationship between academia and hedge funds.

Ferguson, a director with a doctorate in Political Science has also bagged a documentary prize at the recent Directors Guild of America.

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