It is surprising that no woman has won the Oscar award for Best Director in the history of the Academy Awards until yesterday. Kathryn Bigelow entered the history by becoming the first woman to bag the award at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards.
Bigelow’s film The Hurt Locker swept this year’s Academy Awards by winning six Oscars, including Best Director award for herself and Best Picture award. The film is all about the dangerous daily existence of an Army bomb defusal team.
The excited Bigelow said in her acceptance speech that it was the moment of a lifetime. She dedicated the award to the military men and women serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the world. ‘May they come home safe,’ she said.
Bigelow has beaten her ex-husband James Cameron, who was also in the race for Best Director for his film Avatar.
The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, honored the best films of 2009 and took place March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST/8:30 p.m. EST (01:30 UTC, March 8). The ceremony was scheduled from its usual late February date to avoid coinciding with the 2010 Winter Olympics.
The Academy Awards ceremony was televised in the United States on ABC. Actors Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin hosted the show. Martin hosted for the third time, after previously presiding over the 73rd and 75th ceremonies, while Baldwin hosted the show for the first time. This was the first telecast to have multiple hosts since the 59th ceremony. However, announcer Gina Tuttle did a majority of the presenter introductions.
On February 20, 2010, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Elizabeth Banks.
