Bigelow is BEST

MoviesByWomen.com officially supports Kathryn Bigelow for Best Director for HURT LOCKER at the upcoming 2010 Academy Awards.  Bigelow (born November 27, 1951) is an American film director, working in the science fiction, action and horror genres. She won the 2009 Directors Guild of America award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures for directing her latest motion picture, The Hurt Locker, the first woman to do so. She was nominated for the  2009 Golden Globe and we hope she will win the Oscar for her direction of that film. In 2010, she became the fourth woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director after Lina Wertmüller for Seven Beauties (1976), Jane Campion for The Piano (1993) and Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation (2003).

The Hurt Locker Press Reviews New York Times “The Hurt Locker,” directed by Kathryn Bigelow from a script by Mark Boal, is the best non-documentary American feature made yet about the war in Iraq. – A.O. Scott

Roger Ebert “The Hurt Locker” is a spellbinding war film by Kathryn Bigelow, a master of stories about men and women who choose to be in physical danger. She cares first about the people, then about the danger.

The Hollywood Reporter The definitive film about the U.S. involvement in Iraq has yet to be made, and “The Hurt Locker” doesn’t aspire to compete in the category. Tensely action-packed and muscularly directed by Kathryn Bigelow, this tale of an elite U.S. army bomb disposal unit in Baghdad is a familiar story in new clothes, targeted at the young male demographic. – Deborah Young

Variety War may be hell, but watching war movies can also be hell, especially when they don’t get to the point. Often gripping at a straight thriller level, but increasingly weakened by its fuzzy (and hardly original) psychology, Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker,” centered on an elite U.S. bomb squad in Baghdad, doesn’t bring anything new to the table of grunts-in-the-firing-line movies. – Derek Elley