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 isnât the only one celebrating its 93rd trip around the sun at the Academy Awards ceremony this year. The shorts category features two documentaries, â A Concerto is a Conversation â and â Colette,â 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 turns 93 on April 25, the day of the ceremony. Neither ever dreamed that they would have any connection to the movies at all, let alone Hollywoodâs greatest honour.