CNY native wins Oscar for short film ‘Two Distant Strangers’
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Central New York native Mickey Meyer has won an Oscar for the short film “Two Distant Strangers.”
The Observer-Dispatch reports Meyer, who was born and raised in Clinton, N.Y., was an executive producer for the live-action short starring rapper Joey Bada$$ as a Black man stuck in a time loop and forced to relive a deadly run-in with a cop (Andrew Howard).
Writer-director Travon Free and co-director Martin Desmond Roe received the award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 2021 Academy Awards on Sunday. Free, who wore a black-and-gold blazer with the names of Eric Garner, Philando Castile, Tamir Rice, Daunte Wright and others written on the jacket’s inside lining, spoke out against police shootings during his acceptance speech.
TWO DISTANT STRANGERS Accepts the Oscar for Live Action Short
ON THE RED CARPET Mike Conley Jr. plays a lot of roles in his life. He s a father, a former Ohio State standout, an NBA All-Star, the starting point guard for the NBA-leading Utah Jazz, and a gritty and grizzled veteran of 14 professional seasons, to name a few titles.
Add Oscar-winning producer to that resume.
Conley was among the producing team on the short film, Two Distant Strangers, a 29-minute Netflix film that took home an Academy Award in the Short Film (Live Action) category Sunday night.
Conley and Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant were two of the producers on the film, which is directed by Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe and tells the story of a Black graphic artist who gets stuck on in a Groundhog Day-style time loop that always ends in him being killed by a white police officer.
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Olivia Colman, left, and Sir Anthony Hopkins in a scene from The Father (Image: Sean Gleason/Sony Pictures Classics via AP)
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