Halifax’s Ben Proudfoot gets shot at a second Oscar with nod for The Last Repair Shop
Halifax director and Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot has another Oscar nomination to his name, after his latest project was announced Tuesday as a finalist in the Documentary Short Film category.
Proudfoot and Kris Bowers are nominated for “The Last Repair Shop“, which tells the stories of four master craftspeople who repair damaged musical instruments, bringing them back to life for students in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The district has 80,000 student musical instruments that must be kept in good repair and the shop is one of the last of its kind anywhere.
The Last Repair Shop has been nominated for an Academy Award!
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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— Breakwater Studios (@breakwaterstud) January 23, 2024
Two years ago, Proudfoot won the Academy Award for best documentary short for “The Queen of Basketball,” which told the story of the late Lusia “Lucy” Harris. She was the first Black woman to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
This is Proudfoot’s third Oscar nomination. He was also nominated in 2021 for “A Concerto Is a Conversation,” which he also co-diected with Bowers.
“The Last Repair Shop” is up for the award against. “The ABCs of Book Banning,” “The Barber of Little Rock,” “Island in Between” and “Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó.”
Watch The Last Repair Shop here:
