L.A. Times wins first Oscar for 'The Last Repair Shop,' about LAUSD music program

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Directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers and co-distributed by L.A. Times Studios and Searchlight, the film took home the documentary short award on Sunday.

The Los Angeles Times has covered the Oscars for 96 years — and now it has won one. The heartwarming 'The Last Repair Shop,' directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers and co-distributed by L.A. Times Studios and Searchlight, took home the prize in the documentary short category at the Oscars on Sunday.

Working in the largest remaining workshop of its kind in America, the four oversee the maintenance of some 80,000 instruments, ensuring that the city's schoolchildren have playable instruments in their hands every day. Proudfoot previously won the same prize for the 2021 short 'The Queen of Basketball'; that year, he and Bowers were nominated in the same category for co-directing 'A Concerto Is a Conversation.

 

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