oscars

despite my silent vow to not watch the academy awards i managed to get sucked in and watched the last 3rd of the broadcast. there is very little i dislike more than hollywood congratulating itself and i simply can't stand celebrity culture. at any rate, i was happy to see kathryn bigelow get the best director award. she is just that good a filmmaker. i was more than a bit surprised to learn that bigelow is the first woman to win the best director award. really?! seriously?! over 100 years of movie making and 82 years of the oscars and only one woman has won best director and that happened last night?! that's pretty fucked up. i hope bigelow doesn't remain a statistic and is the first of many women filmmakers to achieve the sort of prize-winning hollywood, and the movie-going public at large, love to death.