3 Oscar Nominations in 4 Years? That’s Short Work for Ben Proudfoot

Over the 80-year history of the Oscars Best Documentary Short category, only 17 people have received as many as three nominations. And of those 17, only four have clustered those three noms in four years: Charles Guggenheim with two in 1964 and one in 1967; Dick Young with noms in 1979, 1980 and 1981; Bill Guttentag with nods in ’88, ’89 and ’90 — and now Ben Proudfoot, who was nominated for 2020’s “A Concerto Is a Conversation,” then won for 2021’s “The Queen of Basketball,” then completed his trifecta with his 2023 short “The Last Repair Shop.”

“All I can say is that all three films have a lot of love in them, and they all cover stories and people that I felt deserved more attention,” Proudfoot, who collaborated with composer and filmmaker Kris Bowers on “Concerto” and “Repair Shop,” told TheWrap.