The Hurt Locker

At the meaningless awards show tonight, 'The Oscars', The Hurt Locker was awarded the 'best picture' oscar, along with best editing, best director, best original screenplay, sound editing and sound mixing.

Congrats to director Kathryn Bigelow for finally breaking through the patriarchal barrier and opening the doors through which all women can now participate in the meaningless, shamefully egotistical Hollywood awards showcase known as The Academy Awards.

Kathryn Bigelow appeared on 60 Minutes last night with Lesley Stahl. Bigelow's action/war film The Hurt Locker has been nominated for nine Oscars.

"I'm drawn to characters that put themselves in extreme situations," says Bigelow, in the interview, and they address her affinity for directing action and strong driven characters in tense settings. Watch the interview below...

Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, in an extreme twist of sweet sweet irony, is up against ex-husband James Cameron and his film Avatar for Best Director at the 2010 Academy Awards, it was announced today. This is the 4th time a woman has been nominated for Best Director (the last time was in 2004 with Sophia Coppola for Lost in Translation) and frankly, it might be the first time a woman ever wins. I can't think of any woman who deserves it more or a film that stands out like Bigelow's does this year.

The Hurt Locker has 9 Academy Awards nominations including Best Picture, Actor, Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Score, and Editing.

"Maybe she WILL win the best director's Oscar?"

That's what film fans everywhere have been wondering since yesterday's announcement that Kathryn Bigelow (Strange Days, Near Dark, Point Break) won the Directors Guild of America trophy for her job on the action/drama The Hurt Locker. She's the first woman ever to win that award, and only the 7th to ever be nominated for it.

Bigelow said she was "stunned, honored and proud" according to Variety.com in her acceptance speech at the end of the awards show on Saturday night at the Century Plaza...

Beating out 10 other contenders, Kathryn Bigelow's action/war movie The Hurt Locker has won the Producers Guild of America award for best feature, beating out the big boys like Avatar, Star Trek and Inglorius Basterds.

Director/producer Kathryn Bigelow (along with her co-producers) won the Darryl F. Zanuck award Sunday night, the 24th, at the awards ceremonies at the Hollywood Palladium...

The Directors Guild of America has nominated Kathryn Bigelow and her action/war movie The Hurt Locker for its top feature award. This means that Bigelow has a strong chance of being nominated for a Best Director Academy Award, and possibly being the first woman to ever win in that category. Bigelow is the seventh female to be nominated by the DGA, ever. Valerie Ferris was the most recent woman nominated, for Little Miss Sunshine along with her co-director Jonathan Dayton.

The DGA, which announced the nods Thursday, will reveal the winner Jan. 30 at its 62nd annual awards gala at the Century Plaza based on voting by its 14,000 members.

Kathryn Bigelow's action war movie The Hurt Locker just won the National Society of Film Critics' awards for picture, director and actor for Jeremy Renner. The Hurt Locker is the first film since L.A. Confidential (1997) to take all three mentions from the Los Angeles, New York and national critics' groups.

Agnes Varda's self-portrait The Beaches of Agnes won the documentary prize.

Director Kathryn Bigelow (Near Dark, Strange Days), hoping for an Oscar nomination for her action film The Hurt Locker this Spring 2009, has just revealed her next film, another action movie, Triple Frontier.

She tells Variety that it will be "an intense ensemble piece that takes place in a region of South America known as the Triple Frontier (the border zone between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil.)"

The Hurt Locker screenwriter, Mark Boal, is currently writing the script.

The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers, announced the winners of the 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards at a ceremony held at New York City’s Cipriani Wall Street.

In addition to the her action/war film The Hurt Locker being awarded Best Feature, a career tribute was presented to filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow. Bigelow's other films as director include the vampire film Near Dark, the sci-fi thriller Strange Days, and the action thriller Point Break...

The incredibly inane, but nevertheless mainstream representative, People's Choice Awards have nominated some impressive women and films in their categories this year;
Abbie Cornish, of Bright Star, for fave breakout star; Christine Jeffs' Sunshine Cleaning, Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker and Jane Campion's Bright Star for fave independent films; Catherine Hardwicke's Twilight as fave film; and the Barrymore-directed Whip It's Ellen Page, Eve and Kristen Wiig as best onscreen pairing. Not to mention the Charlaine Harris-created True Blood, the Eliza Dushku-produced Dollhouse, and female-watched Ghost Whisperer as fave sci-fi/fantasy shows. True Blood, not surprisingly, appears in the TV Obsession category.

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