Colette, the story of 90-year-old Colette Marin-Catherine, one of the last surviving members of the French Resistance, won the Best Documentary Short Oscar at the 93rd Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night.
The film, directed by Anthony Giacchino, details how she confronted her past by visiting the Nazi concentration camp in Germany where her brother, Jean-Pierre, was killed.
The winner in the Best Live Action Short category was Two Distant Strangers, directed by Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe. It stars Joey Bada$$ in a Groundhog Day-type story of an African-American cartoonist who gets into a recurring deadly encounter every day.
Two Distant Strangers edged out the nominated film from Israel, Tomer Shushan’s White Eye.
Shushan’s film, which won awards all over the world, tells the story of a young man in Tel Aviv whose bike is stolen and who accuses a foreign worker of the theft. Shushan, the film’s producer, Shira Hochman, and other members of the crew were present at the small, socially distanced ceremony.
The Present, a Palestinian film by Farah Nabulsi, also was among the nominees.