Ones To Watch: Kathryn Bigelow

[nightcrow90]

Hurt Locker was better.. better actors and better story.

[GhostyToasty27]

gotta feel sorry for James Cameron. has the largest budget in film history, and an all-star cast, and loses the oscar to his ex-wife's budget film. shows the world that cg andtechnology aren't all of it

[TheGoodCasino]

Avatar was a gay Show off movie that bored me to death, and in the end with all the shit that James Cameron Pulled out of his ass, it amounted to nothing when his Ex wife beat him

[AtlanticMighty]

I like this woman so much, it makes me feel like a 12 year old teenager at a Justin Bieber concert.

[TheCrocxxx]

She's so beautiful.

[gravityhammer25]

James Cameron=IDIOT

[irvykinneas]

very elegant

[LaAerial]

i'm sorry but this film was NOT Oscar worthy.....it lacked so much. I'm disappointed.

[Luvs23]

@LaAerial yes but you have to admit the director is STUNNING!

[JackieBrown101]

The Hurt Locker deserves its place not only among the most profound war movies in existence (Apocalypse Now, The Thin Red Line), but among the greatest and most introspective movies in general. I thought Bigelow's other film Point Break was one of the most exhilarating films of the nineties, and that The Hurt Locker is a near technically perfect movie that questions the morality of men serving oversees in wars and their addictions and their flaws.

[Luvs23]

omg, she's so hot, and I'm not even gay!

[popaddict]

She's 58?! wow

[NightmareKingz]

This untalented bitch could easily get an overgrown dick in her MILF ass

[denisonM]

@NightmareKingz hey future rapist. fuck off. kathryn is very talented.

[Yakko77]

She deserved the Oscar she and her movie got. Great film, great directing. To be sure, while Avatar was IMO Dances With Wolves meets Ferngully starring tall Smurfs but it too deserved all the technical Oscars it received as it LOOKED stunning.

[Johnlindsey289]

@Yakko77

And The Matrix is Ghost in The Shell meets Blade Runner, face it Matrix was unoriginal as it was live-action Japanese animation.

Ever heard or seen Dune both the novel and the 1984 monstrosity from David Lynch? Now that is what Avatar is truly like.

[lexjansma]

the hurt locker is so good. when i saw it for the first time, i knew it was going to win. wat makes this movie great, is that there can happen something every minute. i was on the point of my seat. and i dont think that the hurt locker has won best director because she was a woman, it has won because she was just so good in that movie as a director. i faught the movie was VERY good directed and i didnt know it was directed by woman. if i knew my opinion stil wouldnt chance.

[parkerphil20]

tired of all the stupid comparing comments,people please stop comparing,hurt locker might not be the best war movie,but it certainly tops the line

[redvan2000]

I love how Kathryn Bigelow is also blazing new roads for older women having boytoys, like her Oscar co-winner and lover Mark Boal - you go girl! A 59 year old woman like Bigelow with a 36 year old boy like Boal. Love you Kathryn!!

[wellspout]

justice served, finally and for once, despite cameron batting clean-up at the box-office, war is the problem and kathryn delivered the goods. it's hollywood, but...

[playahata113]

What a beautiful, talented woman. She deserved her award.

[JDubs878]

What a bullshit win this is. Hurt Locker is like Shakespeare in Love 2.0. A good movie that beat out another film that will be long revered and remembered.

And the fact that Striesand presented the best director award makes me fucking want to PUKE!!

[GilmoZo]

The Hurt Locker is the fourth film to win all three major U.S. critics group prizes, from NY, LA and NSFC. The other three? Goodfellas, Schindler's List and L.A. Confidential.

So, I guess you're right; I mean, who remembers or even talks about those any more?

[JDubs878]

Shakespeare in Love also won a ton of awards in its year too, but guess what? How many people care about that film now? Compare that to runner up Saving Private Ryan which 10 years on is still considered a landmark film and is highly remembered.

In fact, people having been DYING for a blu ray release and in a month or so SVP will become one of the highest selling blu's ever. Yet no one has ever been crying for a SIL re-release in blu. The same is happening with HL vs Avatar.

[GilmoZo]

Why are you punishing The Hurt Locker for Shakespeare in Love winning? I just don't see the argument. Are you saying Avatar was as good or on the same level as SPR? I REALLY don't see it. Avatar may be "technically superior" and whatever, but that alone CANNOT suffice for a Best Picture win.

[JDubs878]

I guess I'm kinda pissed that Avatar got beat by a movie that most people haven't even seen and alot of movie goers are split on.

Everyone keeps dumping on Avatar for being similar to Dances with Wolves or Pochahontas etc, but can anyone tell me that THL or most other Oscar winning movies are 100% original?

Personally I enjoyed the movie as a whole, plot and all and thought Cameron definitely deserved at least best director for all the groundbreaking work he put into Avatar.

[GilmoZo]

I'm not going to defend SIL because honestly, I don't see how it beat SPR. The Academy rewards unjustly a lot of films and performances; Dances with Wolves, a precursor to Avatar, beat Goodfellas.

However, I don't think that was the case this time. A lot of people aren't being fair to the movie. The level of praise that The Hurt Locker has been given is unique, when you look at the other movies that stand with it. This wasn't a fluke and I really don't understand the backlash.

[JDubs878]

If Hurt Locker was directed by a man instead of a woman, it would have alot tougher time winning best picture and director. But I think the fact that it was a woman directed it helped THL's cause

Also the praise is mostly by critics. From what I've read from movie goers, THL gets somewhere between average and great, much like Avatar does. What James has done with Avatar is special, while with THL, its something that's been done before. So why not reward the person who's changing cinema?

[lukebccb]

What you don't understand is years down the road it's the *critics* who will determine what movies are put on the list of "great movies" and if the critics are raving on THL now there is a very good likelihood - BUT NO GUARANTEE (see "Ordinary People") - they will rave about it in the future.

Crowd pleasers are EXACTLY THAT: popular with the masses but the masses don't determine a film's place in history.

[JDubs878]

@lukebccb

It may be critics who determine the official list of greatest movies, but its the fans who determine which movies will endure and be remembered.

Avatar's place in movie history is already assured, while you can't say the same with THL which more than likely will fall off the map in a year or two.

Just look at Saving Pvt Ryan. One of the most beloved movies ever is named as one of the greatest movies on the AFI list while Shakespeare in Love is nowhere to be found.

[GilmoZo]

It's terribly unfair and wrong to say they just gave it to her because she's a woman. Other women have been nominated; why would they finally decide to give it to her?

No, The Hurt Locker isn't 100% original, but it's the way the story is told that matters. They took that story and did so much with it, in terms of performances, especially.

I really think people are looking at this thing the wrong way.

[JDubs878]

@Gilmo

According to many people who've seen THL, while many enjoyed the film, many others were wondering what the fuss is all about. And of those that enjoyed it, many thought it didn't deserve BP or BD that it received.

And its a TOTAL JOKE that THL won for best sound and sound editing when other movies in those categories deserved it much more.

Also, how come no one is making a big deal out of THL not being completely original, yet Avatar its such a crime? Seems like a double standard there

[GilmoZo]

Let's just agree to disagree. This is exhausting and there's really no point in talking about it. What happened happened and neither of us can change it. This going back and forth is, no offense, tedious.

I'm sorry you and other Avatar fans didn't get what you wanted. Maybe Avatar 2 will sweep its award season. But for now, I'm sorry, I can't continue this conversation. We're going in circles and arguing hypotheticals.

[jtapia1123]

if you can prove that one movie has more art merit than one, (avatar/screenplay) then why would you do that based on revolutionary techniques?

did star wars win best picture? no. cry about it.

[mrod1108]

Sorry Kathryn you are obviously a great director but you are also SEXY!!!

[clomid100]

i know chicks in their 30s and 40s, and she looks better and younger, than , most of them.

[wellspout]

cameron is obviously an idiot

[agger12343]

More importantly, how did cameron get her in de first place? De man looks like a frog!

[StraightTwoDVD]

@agger12343

gee..loads of successful... wealthy... well networked "frogs"...get attractive women.

since the beginning of time. nothing new.

[agger12343]

Ya... I m sure that happens (sarcasm)... She was married to him for approximately 2 and a half years! Maybe she needed some help from him.... She was a wannabe director then... Dude, most of these girls in showbiz r sleeping with 2 or 3 ppl at a time.... She was his bank.... I m sure some hot dude was puncturing her while she was married to james "avatar" cameron

[denisonM]

@agger12343 I'M wonder that myself.

[redvan2000]

A very lovely 60 year old woman.

[katrinbowen]

Congratulations on your Oscar, Kathryn you are a true talent.

Well deserved!

[217potato]

Also very hot!

[217potato]

Congrats to the first woman Best Director Academy Award winner.

Great film and Great work.

[jamessmedley82]

She has a passing resemblance to the actress Joanna Cassidy, yet another mature MILF.

[Iker122]

milf

[jej1977]

Yes, your allright!

[IloveUSA1941]

cant believe that shes 58 years old...she looks pretty sexy.