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Messenger The Oscar isn’t the only one celebrating its 93rd trip around the sun at the Academy Awards ceremony this year. The shorts category features two documentaries, “A Concerto is a Conversation” and “Colette,” about fellow nonagenarians who have led extraordinary and extraordinarily different lives. One, Horace Bowers, is a 93-year-old Black man born in the Jim Crow South who became a successful business owner in California and the grandfather of a prominent composer. The other, Colette Marin- Catherine, is a French woman who was part of the resistance during World War II. She...

Lindsey Bahr Horace Bowers, 93, owner of Bowers & Sons Cleaners in Los Angeles and a subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary short film "A Concerto is a Conversation," poses for a portrait outside Walt Disney Concert Hall, Thursday, April 15, 2021, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) April 16, 2021 - 9:36 AM The Oscar isn’t the only one celebrating its 93rd trip around the sun at the Academy Awards ceremony this year. The shorts category features two documentaries, “ A Concerto is a Conversation ” and “ Colette,” about fellow nonag...

2 documentaries up for Oscars tell stories of nonagenarians LINDSEY BAHR, AP Film Writer April 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 11 1of11Horace Bowers, 93, owner of Bowers & Sons Cleaners in Los Angeles and a subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary short film "A Concerto is a Conversation," poses for a portrait outside Walt Disney Concert Hall, Thursday, April 15, 2021, in Los Angeles.Chris Pizzello/APShow MoreShow Less 2of11Colette Marin-Catherine appears in a scene from the Oscar-nominated documentary short "Collette," about a French woman who was part of the resistance during W...

2 documentaries up for Oscars tell stories of nonagenarians Poll Yes The Oscar isn’t the only one celebrating its 93rd trip around the sun at the Academy Awards ceremony this year. The shorts category features two documentaries, ” A Concerto is a Conversation “ and ” Colette,” about fellow nonagenarians who have led extraordinary and extraordinarily different lives. One, Horace Bowers, is a 93-year-old Black man born in the Jim Crow South who became a successful business owner in California and the grandfather of a prominent composer. The other, Colette Marin-Catherine, is a Fre...

TORONTO -- It's been an emotional start to the week for Halifax-raised filmmaker Ben Proudfoot. On Monday, the Los Angeles-based director-producer scored an Oscar nomination for the documentary short "A Concerto is a Conversation," which traces the family lineage of co-director and composer Kris Bowers. Proudfoot said he was "floored" by the news and was fielding many congratulatory messages from Hollywood, but he was also facing a more sombre time, after travelling home to Halifax and finishing a 14-day pandemic quarantine so he could be with his mom. "This time last year I was here, my...