The Lady in Number 6

2013 Canadian film

2013 (2013)

Running time

39 minutesCountriesCanada
United States
United KingdomLanguageEnglish

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life is an Academy Award-winning 2013 documentary-short film directed, written and produced by Malcolm Clarke.

The Lady In Number 6: Music Saved My Life tells the story of Alice Herz-Sommer, a German-speaking Jewish pianist from Prague who was at her death the world's oldest Holocaust survivor. In the documentary, she discusses the importance of music, laughter, and how to have an optimistic outlook on life. Herz (1903–2014) died at age 110, one week before the 86th Academy Awards.

Awards

Awards
Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Recipients and nominees	Result
Academy Awards^[2]^[3]	March 2, 2014	Best Documentary – Short Subject	Malcolm Clarke Nicholas Reed	Won
Liverpool Lift-Off Film Festival^[4]	March 3, 2014	Best Short Documentary	Malcolm Clarke Nicholas Reed	Won

References

^ Willmore, Alison (2014-02-25). "Netflix Acquires 2014 Oscar-Nominated Doc Short 'The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life'". IndieWire. Retrieved 2019-01-26.
^ "2014 Oscar Nominations". Oscars.com. 16 January 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
^ "Oscars 2014 Winners: The Complete List". The Hollywood Reporter. March 2, 2014. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
^ "2014 Liverpool Lift-Off Film Festival".

External links

Official website
The Lady in Number 6 at IMDb
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/02/28/oscar-documentary-shorts-the-lady-in-number-6/

Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film

1941–1975

Churchill's Island (1941)
No Award (1942)
December 7th (1943)
With the Marines at Tarawa (1944)
Hitler Lives (1945)
Seeds of Destiny (1946)
First Steps (1947)
Toward Independence (1948)
A Chance to Live / So Much for So Little (1949)
Why Korea? (1950)
Benjy (1951)
Neighbours (1952)
The Alaskan Eskimo (1953)
Thursday's Children (1954)
Men Against the Arctic (1955)
The True Story of the Civil War (1956)
No Award (1957)
Ama Girls (1958)
Glass (1959)
Giuseppina (1960)
Project Hope (1961)
Dylan Thomas (1962)
Chagall (1963)
Nine from Little Rock (1964)
To Be Alive! (1965)
A Year Toward Tomorrow (1966)
The Redwoods (1967)
Why Man Creates (1968)
Czechoslovakia 1968 (1969)
Interviews with My Lai Veterans (1970)
Sentinels of Silence (1971)
This Tiny World (1972)
Princeton: A Search for Answers (1973)
Don't (1974)
The End of the Game (1975)

1976–2000

Number Our Days (1976)
Gravity Is My Enemy (1977)
The Flight of the Gossamer Condor (1978)
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979)
Karl Hess: Toward Liberty (1980)
Close Harmony (1981)
If You Love This Planet (1982)
Flamenco at 5:15 (1983)
The Stone Carvers (1984)
Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements (1985)
Women – for America, for the World (1986)
Young at Heart (1987)
You Don't Have to Die (1988)
The Johnstown Flood (1989)
Days of Waiting (1990)
Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment (1991)
Educating Peter (1992)
Defending Our Lives (1993)
A Time for Justice (1994)
One Survivor Remembers (1995)
Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996)
A Story of Healing (1997)
The Personals (1998)
King Gimp (1999)
Big Mama (2000)