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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she is so lovely that night at the oscars. I am glad she won. Girl power!
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I haven’t seen this movie yet. but I applaud her for being the first woman to win the best director 🙂
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I haven’t seen her movie and I will soon. Hubby and FIL will most likely watch it with me.
happy International Women’s Day!
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omg. I saw Oscars too. I plainly thank that she really deserves the award. Girl power!!!! 🙂
I love this movie… finally it got its due recognition… kudos to the director.
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