If Saturday’s DGA Awards are any indication, we might have to hold off on just gift-wrapping the Oscars for Avatar and director James Cameron. In a Director’s Guild first, Kathryn Bigelow took home the prize for directing for her gripping Iraq War film, The Hurt Locker. Bigelow is the first woman in the Guild’s history to take the honor, winning it over Quentin Tarantino (Inglorious Basterds), Jason Retiman (Up In the Air), Lee Daniels (Precious) and the aforementioned King of the World, who also happens to be her ex-husband.
Bigelow said that, “This is the most incredible moment of my life.” And that “This is amazing. I am so deeply stunned and honored and proud.” She accepted the “unimaginable honor” on behalf of the “men and
women in the field” in the Iraq military zone. The DGA is one of the more accurate indicators for its counterpart award at the Academy Awards. The Best Director Oscar has only gone to a different director than the DGA winner six times since 1948. The Hurt Locker also took the DGA Best Picture award.
Kudos to Ms. Bigelow on an award well-earned. The Oscar nominations will be announced Tuesday morning.
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She deserves it. Hurt Locker is incredible. I loved IB, but would like to see Bigelow win it. Avatar is great as schlocky spectacle, but I wouldn't call it best film of the year. If it was shown only in 2D, it would've only garnered technical Oscar buzz. The story is rehashed sci fi melodrama. My opinion, anyway.
She totally deserved it.
Good for Bigelow. I hope she gets the Oscar. She deserves it. Well, maybe I'd vote for Tarantino, but still. I don't think her historic awards success deserves to be cheapened by yet another Faraci cheapshot (or another cheapshot from anybody, for that matter) at Cameron. Come on, Devin. You're just baiting people.
Devin didn't write this piece.
@#4: I know. It was a labored attempt at being tongue-in-cheek. Well, maybe not so labored. You thought it was the real thing.
@ #3 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Reading comprehension is right! No backtracking now you've made an ass of yourself.
Bigelow will win the Best Director Oscar, Avatar will win Best Picture. I'll bet a hundred dollars.
She deserves it alright. "it" being some hard man beef up the tail pipe.
Maybe JC has been given the PJ treatment. No gong til you finish the fucking trilogy geek-boy!!! —————— @#8: She'd snap you like a toothpick boy…but what a way to go.
David. Of all pictures you choose the one on which Bigelow isn't stunningly hot? That's quite an achievement. We're all very proud!
I have no complaints about the picture #10
The Hurt Locker was generic and mediocre, so it's sure to win an oscar. There's also the shallowness of her gender being a factor.
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