Twas a wonderful night for women at the DGA Awards! While the rest of you were peering into the mediocre abyss of popular music (aka the Grammys), Kathryn Bigelow beat out (ex-husband) James Cameron for her stellar work directing The Hurt Locker, Lesli Linka Glatter took home an award for directing an episode of Mad Men, “A Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency,” and Allison Liddi-Brown landed a win for the TV movie Princess Protection Program, which aired on the Disney Channel.
The Oscar scales are now tipping in Bigelow’s favor, as normally the DGA winner sweeps on to the Oscars to take home the Director statuette. There have only been six exceptions when this did not happen, and so it’s quite possible that Bigelow’s terse and minimalistic depiction of American soldiers in a bomb defusing squad will win out over Cameron’s bombastic and fantastical sci-fi tale. Personally, I am pulling for her because:
How many women have won Oscars for best directing?
ZERO.
Here are the women who have been nominated in the past:
Lina Wurtmuller – Seven Beauties (1976)
Jane Campion – The Piano (1993)
Sofia Coppola – Lost in Translation (2003)
and now
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker (2009)
May the fates be with you, Ms. Bigelow!
Check out the trailer for the film “Hurt Locker,” for which Ms. Bigelow was nominated.
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