When the 2025 New Orleans Film Festival ended with a packed house at the Prytania Theater, it was a last-minute documentary addition that grabbed everyone’s attention.

“ Man on the Run ,” a documentary feature about Paul McCartney’s life, covers the decade between the breakup of the Beatles and the murder of John Lennon, at which time Paul broke up his band, Wings.

At the helm of this project is director Morgan Neville, who won both an Oscar and a Grammy for his 2013 film “20 Feet from Stardom,” which explored the lives of backup singers.

When the Audience Awards from the film festival were released this past Tuesday, “Man on the Run,” (not in contention for a Jury Award), won for Spotlight Documentary Feature.

No surprise, as the audience was mesmerized by the many revelations about

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