Kathryn Bigelow and Post-Gender America
As you may have heard repeated several hundred times last night, Kathryn Bigelow’s “Best Director” Academy Award victory made her the first woman to ever win in that category.
To put Bigelow’s accomplishment in perspective only three other women had even been nominated for Best Director priorly — Sofia Coppola for “Lost in Translation,” Lina Wertmuller for “Seven Beauties” and Jane Campion for “The Piano.” But as Sharon Waxman points out, Bigelow didn’t seem especially thrilled with breaking any gender
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