The Oscars: Is Being "The First Female" Important?
Last night, Kathryn Bigelow won the Academy Award for Best Director for her Iraq war film, The Hurt Locker. The Hurt Locker also won Best Picture, beating out the newly crowned highest grossing film of all time, Avatar (whose director, interestingly enough, is James Cameron, Bigelow’s ex-husband).
By winning these awards, Bigelow became the first woman to win an Oscar for directing and the first woman to direct a Best Picture. If you look at the media write-ups of the Oscars, these achievements appear to be a very big deal.
