Mike Conley just won an Oscar

Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley (10) eyes the basket as he goes up for and hits a three point shot as the Utah Jazz and the Sacramento Kings play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Saturday, April 10, 2021. Jazz won 128-112. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News

Conley and Kevin Durant of the Brooklyn Nets were executive producers on the short film Two Distant Strangers, which won the Academy Award for Best Short Film (Live Action).

Mike Conley can now add Oscar winner to his list of achievements.

Conley and Kevin Durant of the Brooklyn Nets were executive producers on the short film Two Distant Strangers, which won the Academy Award for Best Short Film (Live Action), beating out Feeling Through, The Letter Room, The Present and White Eye.

Congratulations Mike!#Oscars pic.twitter.com/QQ5SqTr7ch

— utahjazz (@utahjazz) April 26, 2021

Man this is dope salute @MCONLEY10 https://t.co/c4KU3meRgj

— Donovan Mitchell (@spidadmitchell) April 26, 2021

The film was directed by Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe.

Conley and Durant join the late Kobe Bryant as Oscar winners. Bryant won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short for his short film Dear Basketball in 2018.

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