Louie Psihoyos received a standing ovation Tuesday, not for how well he made his movie, but for the daring and probably illegal things he does in the movie - for a good cause.

Psihoyos is the director of the documentary "The Cove," an amazing and eye-opening look at a secret slaughter of dolphins in a Japanese coastal town - and how Psihoyos and a team of experts banded together, "Mission: Impossible"-style, to get the filmed evidence.

"It's my first film, and I wish I'd started making them earlier," Psihoyos said after the standing O.

Activist Ric O'Barry, who has fought 35 years to free captive dolphins (in part out of guilt for popularizing commercializing dolphins by training the stars of TV's "Flipper"), agreed.

"I wish you had started making movies earlier, too," O'Barry said. "I think the movie you made will have the power to stop this world's largest slaughter of dolphins."

(Here's the review, and here's where you can learn more about the plight of dolphins in Japan.)