Proper recognition for the achievements of Lusia “Lucy” Harris has been a long time coming, but it happened emphatically tonight at the Academy Awards.The Queen of Basketball, which documents Harris’s unsung accomplishment as one of the greatest basketball players of all time, won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short.
Director Ben Proudfoot accepted the award, which was presented – along with seven other categories – during the Oscar pre-show.
His edited acceptance remarks will be inserted into the live telecast.Harris won three national championships at Delta State University in her native Mississippi in the 1970s, then led the U.S.
Women’s Basketball Team to a silver medal at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal (the first Games where women’s teams competed), and she became the first woman ever officially drafted by an NBA team.
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