"the-hurt-locker" Articles & Blogs:
Awards Watch: Gotham Independent Film Nominations
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It has begun. The crazy awards season. We’re going to keep track of the women creatives (and films about women) on the way to the Oscars.
The good news. Two women directors are up for best feature. The Hurt Locker was expected, but Amreeka is a b...[Read on] |
Women Score at the Gotham Awards
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Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker started off the awards season with a win for best feature at the IFP’s Gotham Awards. The event also included a tribute to director Bigelow. We shouldn’t read too much into the win but last year’s winner Froze...[Read on] |
Women Directing Action Flicks
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I saw this post by Karina Longworth from Spout about a screening and q&a of Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker which has been making its way around before a full release this summer. The film is about the Iraq War and has been getting some good buzz. ...[Read on] |
117 Foot Locker stores will hang up their laces
| Foot Locker
Inc. has recently announced that they will close 117 stores in the coming
weeks. The athletic retailer and sneaker giant made the move in order to strengthen brand positioning, re-organize and focus more on the female consumer.
The Company
wi...[Read on] |
Kathryn Bigelow wins Best Director at BAFTAs
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The awards season keeps rolling on for Kathryn Bigelow and The Hurt Locker. Not only was the film named best picture last evening at the BAFTA’s (the British version of the Academy Awards), but Bigelow became the first woman EVER to be named best direct...[Read on] |
Early Oscar Prediction—Best Directress: Kathryn Bigelow
| Oscar season generally begins after the Toronto International Film Festival, once the bulk of prestige films have screened for critics and picked up distributors, leaving only a handful of latecomers to tip the balance. (This year, these known unknowns in...[Read on] |
What the Gotham Independent Film Awards Giveth, the Spirit Awards Taketh Away
| From left: The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, screenwriter Mark Boal, and Jeremy Renner. Last night, the 19th Gotham Independent Film Awards—the first hurdle in the award-season obstacle course leading up to Oscar ...[Read on] |
Kathryn Bigelow as Best Director? Bring Her On!
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(WOMENSENEWS)--March 7 brings us the Academy Awards and a chance to see Kathryn Bigelow become the first woman to win a best director Oscar.
"The Hurt Locker," Bigelow's taut drama about U.S. soldiers deployed to defuse bombs in Iraq, transcend...[Read on] |
Early thoughts on the Oscar nominations
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This morning I have such a feeling of relief over Kathryn Bigelow’s nomination. Since the Academy has such a shitty track record of honoring women, I thought in back of my mind that they just might give her (and us) the big finger.
But those thoughts...[Read on] |
Some Kathryn Bigelow News
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Here’s why awards matter. Kathryn Bigelow who we all know won the best director Oscar this year is receiving two different honors.
Even though she has a distinguished body of work I doubt she would have gotten either had she not kicked butt on The ...[Read on] |
Sexism Alert: The Catfight Begins
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Peter Bart has never been known as being ahead of the curve on gender issues, so it’s not too surprising that his was the first column to begin pitting Jane Campion and Kathryn Bigelow in a girl-on-girl competition for year end awards for their films Br...[Read on] |
Women breaking barriers: A milestone
| From the Association for Women in Sports Media: Today marks the 35th anniversary of Robin Herman and Marcel St. Cyr becoming the first female sports reporters to enter a locker room for post-game interviews.Herman was a reporter at The New York Times and ...[Read on] |
Can Kathryn Bigelow win the DGA Award on Saturday?
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I’m still bitter over the Golden Globes. I can’t let it go. I really thought that Bigelow would win best director and she, of course, didn’t. I wish that I didn’t care this much but I find the fact that we girls have a horse in the race for ...[Read on] |
Female Producer to Finance Kathryn Bigelow’s Next Film
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Kathryn Bigelow is getting ready to start shooting her next indie flick now that she has secured financing from Annapurna Pictures which is run by Megan Ellison.
The pic written by Mark Boal will shoot in the summer and is still being written. Here&#...[Read on] |
Indie Spirit Moments
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The last couple of weeks have been all Bigelow all the time, but since The Hurt Locker and the blue people weren’t up for any awards at this year’s Indie Spirits, it allowed other films to shine.
I was so psyched to see Gabby Sidibe (and Precious) wi...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: National Board of Review
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Carey Mulligan
The National Board of Review (NBR) handed out its awards for 2009 and Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air (which is opening in limited release today) took top honors. NBR is a mysterious group. Some film people, some folks not in the bus...[Read on] |
The Post Oscar Debate on Kathyn Bigelow and Gender
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This past week there have been a lot of stories looking at Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar win from a variety of perspectives. The fact that we are even having these conversations at all is in itself a huge and gigantic (and every other adjective I can throw ...[Read on] |
Where did Lady Vols come from?
| Well it came from a lady. Gloria Ray. She was the first female athletic director of women's sports at the University of Tennessee; a position she took over in 1977 after coaching women's tennis at UT. Here is what she said about creating the Lady Vols bra...[Read on] |
Could a woman get nominated for best director this year?
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Another of the post-Cannes write ups include a supposition that 2009 might be a year where a woman could get a best director nod which would be the first since Sophia Coppola in 2003 for Lost in Translation. (H/T to Guy Lodge from In Contention for even...[Read on] |
How will more Best Picture Nominees effect women?
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The Academy blew the minds of pretty much everyone following the film business by doubling the Best Picture nominees starting this year. So instead of five best picture nominees there will be ten.
The news was greeted with mixed emotions (as expected) ...[Read on] |
Will Supreme Court's Decision on New Haven Firefighter Case Hurt Sonia Sotomayor's Confirmation?
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High court overturns Sotomayor decision, saying New Haven did condone
reverse discrimination with firefighter test. What does that mean for
her?Sonia Sotomayor, New Haven | 06/30/2009 10:45 am
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Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor may have a mor...[Read on] |
Q&A;: Sarah Silverman: "'Penis' and 'Vagina' Should Be Equal Comedically, but They're Not"
| Like a cheerier version of Jeremy Renner’s demolitions expert in The Hurt Locker, Sarah Silverman is the kind of comedian who loves nothing better than venturing into the treacherous topics of race, sex, and religion to nimbly navigate some potentia...[Read on] |
Women Directors respond to Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar Nomination
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The last time a woman was nominated for a best director Oscar was in 2003 before blogs and way before Women & Hollywood.
I wanted to take the opportunity to hear the voices of women directors themselves as to what Kathryn Bigelow’s nomination means to ...[Read on] |
Oscar Campaigning
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You have to check out the NY Magazine piece that Mark Harris wrote on the Oscar campaign. The more I read and learn about this stuff, the more it resembles politics with handlers telling people what to wear, what to say, where to go and how to act.
It ...[Read on] |
A cautionary tale: Sheryl, Malcolm and Michael or keep track of your valuables
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p>Swoopes during her visit
to the White House with the
Houston Comets, 2001.
It has happened to some of the most famous people in modern history including Malcolm X and Michael Jackson. I remember the shock and heartfelt panic in my chest when...[Read on] |
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