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 ce