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Kathryn Bigelow … you’ve come a long way, baby! As I’m sure many of y’all are well aware, director Kathryn Bigelow made Academy Award history last night at the 82nd Oscars by becoming the FIRST WOMAN to win the coveted Best Director Oscar … and her film, The Hurt Locker, went on to win the biggest award of the night — Best Picture! Here is a lovely photo of Bigelow and the 2 shiny new men in her life basking in the triumphant glow of victory last night after she won her awards:

Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Best Director award at last night’s Oscars. The film-maker beat ex-husband James Cameron’s 3-D epic ‘Avatar’ to claim the prestigious honour for Iraq war movie ‘The Hurt Locker’, which took home a further five awards including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. She said: “It’s the moment of a lifetime. And thanks got to my fellow nominees who have inspired me for decades.” Speaking before the ceremony, Cameron paid to tribute to his former spouse, saying: “I’ve extolled her virtues to the world and supported her as a film-maker. I’d be tremendously proud if she won.”

You may recall that Kathryn Bigelow already made film-making history back in January when she became the first woman to win the top prize at the Directors Guild Of America Awards when she became the first woman to win but this Oscar win cements her standing in Hollywood … I couldn’t be more thrilled!! What I find TOTALLY fascinating is that The Hurt Locker became the movie with the lowest grossing box office EVER to win the Academy Award for Best Picture … AND that it beat out the HIGHEST grossing film ever, Avatar, for many of the big important Awards Show prizes (including BAFTAs, etc.). Talk about your David and Goliath. I’ve been pulling for Bigelow and The Hurt Locker ever since I saw the movie last year … I found it vastly superior to Avatar (which was a good movie but hardly the groundbreaking spectacular that the media tried to make it out to be). I think it’s safe to say that Kathryn Bigelow is truly the Queen of the World!! And she deserves all her accolades. Congrats again!!

I’ll have a full Academy Awards post coming up … but I wanted to start the day with the focus solely on Bigelow and her historic achievements last night :)

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While The Hurt Locker film and lead actor Jeremy Renner were completely shut out of the Film Independent’s Spirit Awards last night, there are very good chances that neither the film nor Renner will be shut out at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards tomorrow night. The Hurt Locker is seen by many (including me) as the front-runner for Best Picture, director Kathryn Bigelow has a serious shot at becoming the first female to win Best Director and Jeremy Renner himself has a great shot at winning Best Actor. Whether or not Renner wins an Oscar tomorrow is irrelevant in the long run because the actor is sure to blow up in a big way in Hollywood as a result of his nomination … but a boy can dream, can’t he?

Jeremy Renner seems surprisingly calm, considering he’s going through a breakup with his girlfriend, moving into a new house he renovated and preparing to attend the Oscars as a best-actor nominee. “I feel like my life was busier before all of this happened,” says Renner, looking relaxed on a recent sunny afternoon in a Led Zeppelin T-shirt and a pair of jeans at a cafe overlooking the Sunset Strip. “I was trying so hard to get awareness for the film. Once that happened, it’s been like a breath of fresh air. I’m just coming down off that high.” After some 15 years in show business, Renner, 39, captured the attention of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with his performance as a risk-taking bomb disposal technician in “The Hurt Locker,” the tense Iraq war drama directed by Kathryn Bigelow, who is also nominated for an Oscar. The film has already won awards from the Producers Guild of America, National Society of Film Critics, Directors Guild of America and British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Renner and Bigelow have been making the rounds on awards shows, spending more time together than they did most days on the set of “The Hurt Locker” in Jordan. “I rarely saw her throughout the day,” Renner says. “The sets were so big, and the cameras were so far away. I would maybe see her once in the daytime. There were days we would see the cameras more if we got into close quarters, but it was so hot and so intense that you just didn’t realize you were shooting a movie half the time.” Renner’s list of credits include “Dahmer” and “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.” He’ll be seen alongside Ben Affleck in the upcoming crime drama “The Town.” His most unsavory role was his first major part: He played a stoner in the comedy “National Lampoon’s Senior Trip.” “I was just proud to be in a film that would play in movie theaters in Modesto,” he says of his California hometown. His schedule is filled with meetings about potential projects, but he’s also developing his own material. “I personally don’t feel any pressure, but people keep asking, `What are you going to do next?’” Renner says. “I don’t know. I’ll find out when it happens. I just want to take this time and savor it before moving on to the next thing.”

I can’t say I’ve been a huge Jeremy Renner fan for long but I deffo loved him in Hurt Locker and I’m pullin’ for him to win (tho, the odds on favorite is Jeff Bridges to win for his work in Crazy Heart). This article doesn’t mention it but Renner was also in 28 Weeks Later, which is the first movie I remember seeing him in. But, as I said, it doesn’t matter if he wins or loses on Sunday (tho winning is better) because his future in Hollywood looks bright!! We are just over 24 hours away from the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. There are bound to be LOTS of smiling faces on the red carpet tomorrow … but in the meantime, you can click HERE to look back on some of the sparkling smiles from the red carpet last year ;)

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Congratulations are in order today for director Kathryn Bigelow, who helmed the amazing film The Hurt Locker, because last night she was honored with the award for Best Director at the 62nd Annual Directors Guild of America Awards. Not only is this award very fitting because, IMHO, her film The Hurt Locker is the best film of 2009 but Bigelow now has the distinction of being the first woman to win this award from the DGA:

Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the best director award from the Directors Guild of America on Saturday with her Iraq war thriller “The Hurt Locker,” a low-budget film gathering awards steam ahead of the Oscars. The winner of the Guild’s top award has gone on to take the best director Oscar all but six times in the last 61 years. Oscar nominations will be announced next Tuesday and “The Hurt Locker” is expected to garner several nods, including best film and best director. Bigelow beat out four other directors, including her former husband James Cameron, who had won the Golden Globe for best director this month for his mega-budget blockbuster “Avatar.” “I am so deeply stunned and honored and proud,” Bigelow told the celebrity-heavy crowd of Hollywood directors and actors. “I think 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. “The Hurt Locker” tells the story of a three-man U.S. military bomb squad that defuses explosives amid the fighting and insurgents. Many critics consider the film to be the most accurate portrayal of the Iraq war since it began in 2003. Bigelow, also a producer of the film, used little known actors and recreated the difficult conditions of Iraq by shooting mostly in the Middle East during the summer. In the last week, the underdog film was also named best picture by the Producers Guild of America. The winner of that award has gone on to take the best picture Oscar in 13 of the past 20 years, including the two most recent events. “The Hurt Locker,” which is available on DVD after a low-key release in theaters, also won the best picture prize at the Critics Choice Awards … But when asked backstage how it felt to be the first woman to win the Directors Guild award, Bigelow played down her gender and said: “I suppose I like to think of myself as a filmmaker.”

This is FANTASTIC news! It’s crazy to think that in the entire 62 year history of the Directors Guild of America Awards, Kathryn Bigelow is only the first woman to win the Best Director top prize. Her film is truly a tour de force, I hope this win portends the way the Oscars will turn out. I would LOVE for her to also become the first woman to win the Best Director award at the Academy Awards as well. If you haven’t seen The Hurt Locker, I strongly suggest that you do … since it is now available on DVD, there is no reason not to. I honestly feel that Locker is the best film of 2009 … due, in large part, to the amazing direction by Kathryn Bigelow. Congrats to her, again!!

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I am happy to report that I made it back to SoCal without incident and am currently enjoying the lovely weather here. On my flight out from Detroit, I was able to finally get around to watching a screener of the film The Hurt Locker:

The Hurt Locker stars Jeremy Renner and tells the tale of a US military bomb tech in Iraq. Director Kathryn Bigelow does a superb job of capturing that gritty “documentary” feel thruout the film, making the audience feel like they are in the movie. I’m not a big war movie fan but this movie really impressed me. There are cameos by Ralph Finnes and Evangeline Lilly but Renner is the star of the film. The only film I remember seeing him in before Hurt Locker is 28 Weeks Later but he had such a small part in that film. He really shines in this movie. I can now understand why the film is getting so much attention this awards show season. I’d be shocked if Renner did not recieve an Oscar nom for his performance but I would bet good money that director Bigelow will get herself an Oscar nom. If she wins, she will be the first female director to win that prize. It’s a great film, prolly one of the best I’ve seen all year.

After I finished watching The Hurt Locker, I still had quite a bit of time to devote to reading … I brought along with me the new selection of The Turtle Party: Book Club and OMG, do I love it! I’m almost halfway thru The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon and I cannot get enough. Each chapter is like a short story, I’m really enjoying this book. I cannot wait to discuss it with the rest of the Turtle Partiers when next we meet!

Tonight, I have a date with Adriana … ’tis good to be home!!