82nd Academy Awards: First Female Director To Win an Oscar for Best Director Katheryn Bigelow (inset), director of the critically acclaimed “The Hurt Locker”, wins Best Director as the movie also notches up the Best Picture award.
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Suhas Bhat
t proved to be a disappointing night for James Cameron and his behemothian creation “Avatar” which has become the top grossing movie of all time, 12 years after he helmed “Titanic”, the last movie to have held that title. It was entirely unexpected that his return to direction would be so successful and there were rumors that the Academy of Motion Pictures would give the nod to the movie that has captured the global public imagination. But in a David vs Goliath battle, the awards committee gave it to the underdog, Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker”. Bigelow, Cameron’s exwife, also nabbed the Best Director award in a tale worthy of being scripted in a soap opera drama.
The Academy had been changing its tone in the past few years after realising that its choices were out of sync with that of moviegoers who instead voted with their money for altogether different movies. Being probably the biggest awards
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