Movies | March 08, 2010 | 12 comments

Hurt Locker Wins Big at Oscars, Kathryn Bigelow takes Best Director

source: http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/hurt_locker_wins_big_at_oscars_20100307/

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It was the first Iraq war movie to really break through, and now “The Hurt Locker” has won six Academy Awards, including best picture and best director, marking the first time an Oscar for directing has gone to a woman. The movie opens with a quote from Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges.

“The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.” Hedges wrote that line in his book “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.”

The film is surprisingly apolitical, given its subject matter. It was written and co-produced by Mark Boal, a journalist who won an Oscar for his screenplay.

The winning director, Kathryn Bigelow, was only the fourth woman ever nominated in that category. She beat out, among others, Lee Daniels, who would have been the first African-American to take home the best-director statuette.

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12 comments // Hurt Locker Wins Big at Oscars, Kathryn Bigelow takes Best Director

  • Mcellie
  • toreyray
    • +1
      toreyray  

    • “The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.” Hedges wrote that line in his book “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.”

      Yah i think that line is amazing!

    • 1 year ago
  • JohnA
  • BrittanyL
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      BrittanyL  

    • This story is a bit bittersweet for me. It has always been my dream to become the first female director to win an academy award, but at the same time, I finally have someone as a role model to make me strive for my future goals. I'm so happy for Kathryn Bigelow.

    • 1 year ago
  • BKsaysAction
  • Guyatthebusstation
  • planetjoseph
  • Humdrum
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      Humdrum  

    • "The Hurt Locker," eh? The next time I want to waste two hours watching homo-erotic military hero worship, I'll just rent some porn.

      (It wasn't terrible or anything. I mean, plain oatmeal isn't terrible.)

    • 1 year ago
  • onemalefla
  • Humdrum
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      Humdrum  
    • Humdrum:

      Aw, I'm not agreed with. But come now - it was up against Avatar, The Blind Side, District 9, An Education, Inglorious Basterds, Precious, A Serious Man, Up, and Up In the Air for Best Picture. How in the hell did it beat some of those? I thought it was equal parts art and army commercial. At no point did accuracy or realism enter into it. I may not know what the occupation of Iraq is like, but I know that movie was not it.

    • 1 year ago
  • CarolineS
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      CarolineS  
    • Humdrum:

      haha that made me laugh!
      havent seen it, but when kathryn thanked 'all the servicemen and women fighting in iraq" i knew i would never see this film, it look like some pro-war bullcrap, that only wants to give us a sob story about the army's time, well no one forced them there, and they are not fighting for freedom, they fight in the name of the corporations.

    • 1 year ago
  • crispyfritters
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