Kathryn Bigelow is the first female filmmaker to win the Best Director award in the history of the Annual Academy Awards. A great timing too since today we celebrate the International Women’s Day. Congratulations!
Bigelow is the director behind the Best Picture for the 82nd Academy Awards a.k.a. The Oscars, The Hurt Locker, a war movie that shows what soldiers are facing in Iraq.
She beat out her ex-husband, “Avatar” director James Cameron, for the best director title.
“There’s no other way to describe it; this is the moment of a lifetime,” Bigelow said as she took the stage to collect her director trophy.
Aside from the above honor she was able to bring all women in the world, Bigelow was the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures for the same movie The Hurt Locker.
It was also the same film that she was awarded the Best Film and Best Director at the 2010 British Academy Film Awards and was nominated for a Golden Globe.
Birthdate: November 27, 1951
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just as I said in the post Ann she is the first female film maker to win this award in the Oscar 🙂
and by the way, i am more amazed because Hurt Locker is some war-type movie, a “men” movie, but she did make it… the movie is really great and she won the award for it!!!
i don’t think that that is luck, she really deserves it.
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i heard that she’s also the first-ever female director that won on Oscar’s… all of them are men…
is that true?
wow, women power!!!
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It’s time for women to shine on an organization that was already dominated by men.