"Maybe she WILL win the best director's Oscar?"
That's what film fans everywhere have been wondering since yesterday's announcement that Kathryn Bigelow (Strange Days, Near Dark, Point Break) won the Directors Guild of America trophy for her job on the action/drama The Hurt Locker. She's the first woman ever to win that award, and only the 7th to ever be nominated for it.
Bigelow said she was "stunned, honored and proud" according to Variety.com in her acceptance speech at the end of the awards show on Saturday night at the Century Plaza...
"We all felt a really deep responsibility to tell this story with as much honesty as possible, given the courage of the men and women in the field," she added. "This is the most incredible moment of my life."
She won the Producers Guild of America trophy last weekend, following kudos from the New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. and the National Society of Film Critics. But the DGA Award is viewed as a reliable predictor of the Academy Award for best director since 1948.
