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...Kathryn Bigelow, 58, may be the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director, and 2) if she does, she'll beat out her ex-husband James Cameron. These are possibilities that never crossed her mind when she was shooting her Iraq-war movie The Hurt Locker in Jordan in 2007, perspiring in the 115°F heat, her face covered in dirt. (See the top 10 movies...
...things blowing up. She's known for her adrenaline-pumped action sequences in films like the vampire western Near Dark (1987) and the surfer-heist cult classic Point Break (1991); the subtitle of the Directors' Cuts volume of film criticism about her is "Hollywood Transgressor." With The Hurt Locker, she's transgressed her way right to the threshold of the industry's highest honor. Breaking the Oscars' glass ceiling after a career of original, uncompromising films would make the history-making that much more fun. (See the 100 best movies of all time...
Tension is a hallmark of her films, as are provocative characters, and The Hurt Locker has both. But it marked a departure by giving her the chance to investigate an ongoing conflict, to be relevant. Which is why it perplexes her that some critics have characterized it as apolitical. "You have graphic depiction of innocent children killed by bombs," she says. "You have soldiers incapable of surviving a catastrophic event. And I think at the end of the day you look at the cost of this war on human lives and broken families...
Fiennes, who plays a small role in The Hurt Locker, says Bigelow is "incredibly wired with enthusiasm and excitement. It's physical, palpable, when she sees a shot or a moment that is working." Mark Boal, who wrote and co-produced The Hurt Locker, likens her to an athlete going onto the field: "She's pretty switched on when the cameras start going...
Sensing opportunity to pull off an upset in the third period, the Huskies came out of the locker room with renewed vigor and caught the Crimson off guard. Harvard responded with a series of sloppy penalties, ceding momentum and manpower to Northeastern...