So The Hurt Locker took best picture at the Oscars last night. I wasn’t expecting that. I have seen all of the other contenders with the exception off Invictus and Crazy Heart. I personally thought on paper Invictus was going to get it. In the end it didn’t get a single oscar. Don’t get me wrong, I really liked Hurt Locker, but Best Film seems a little off. I will grab the DVD and watch it again.
Any way I’m happy for Bigelow since she definately deserves some recognition for her films. I hadn’t realised that she is the first woman to win the ‘Best Director’ gong. Plus I’m sure she is loving the fact that she pipped her ex-husband (James Cameroon) to the Oscar this time round. I have always liked her films. Point Break, Near Dark and Blue Steel were all good in their own ways. I think Strange Days is a classic, when it came out it was a very underated film. Thankfully its fan base has grown since it came out. LOL, I just looked up the IMDB url for this post and noted it was made in 1995, damn that was a long time ago.
I’m sure Jeremy Renner is not going to be short of work now either, glad to see him get some credit too for this film.
Avatar got the technical awards as expected, glad that Christoph Waltz got the best supporting actor for Basterds, truely a great performance. I hope he makes more english films! The rest of the winners were pretty much as expected Sandra Bullock took the best actress award for The Blind Side (Not seen that yet either, no UK release yet.) Which actually must be ok if she got an Oscar for it. I need to watch A Single Man and Precious. I watched a Serious Man last week, whilst I like all Cohen Brother’s film, it did strike me as a little strange. I think the opening segment was really good, shame it had nothing to do with the rest of the film.
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