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‘Hurt Locker’ Sweeps Academy Awards, Kathryn Bigelow Makes History

kathrynbigelow 200x300 Hurt Locker Sweeps Academy Awards, Kathryn Bigelow Makes History Making history, ‘Hurt Locker’ director Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Best Director honors at the Academy Awards. Moments after her Best Director win, ‘Hurt Locker’ was named Best Motion Picture at the 2010 Academy Awards.

Winning six of their nominated nine Oscars, ‘Hurt Locker’ won nods including Best Motion Picture, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Original Screenplay.

After accepting her Best Director award and making history, Kathryn Bigelow barely made it to the press room before she had to turn around and head back to join her team to accept the Best Motion Picture statue.

The Best Director category not only pitted Bigelow against her ex-husband James Cameron for “Avatar” which won four Oscars tonight, but also fellow history-making nominee Lee Daniels who would have been the first African-American to win a Best Director Oscar had he won for “Precious.”

‘Hurt Locker’ Producer Locked Out of Oscars

After a controversial group of emails that ‘Hurt Locker’ producer Nicolas Chartier sent to members of the academy urging them to vote for his and Kathryn Bigelow’s film over James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’. Cameron and Bigelow are former spouses, which adds another bit of drama to the situation.

Chartier has apologized for the emails, and ultimately, the Academy today announced that he could not attend Sunday’s awards show for his slam of ‘Avatar’ in his emails — flippantly regarding to it as a “$500 million film.”

In a statement released by the Academy, they said:

“Academy rules prohibit ‘casting a negative or derogatory light on a competing film.’ The executive committee of the Academy’s Producers Branch, at a special session late Monday, ruled that the ethical lapse merited the revocation of Chartier’s invitation to the Awards.”