The Hurt Locker wins 6 Academy Awards!

Behold the winners:

• Best Picture: “The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro
• Best Director: “The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow
• Best Actor: Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart”
• Best Actress: Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side”
• Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds”
• Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique in “Precious”
• Best Original Screenplay: “The Hurt Locker” Written by Mark Boal
• Best Adapted Screenplay: “Precious” Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
• Best Foreign Language: “The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos)” Argentina
• Best Animated Film: “Up” Pete Docter
• Best Documentary: “The Cove” Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens
• Best Cinematography: “Avatar” Mauro Fiore
• Best Art Direction: Avatar” Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair
• Best Costumes: “The Young Victoria” Sandy Powell
• Best Editing: “The Hurt Locker” Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
• Best Score: “Up” Michael Giacchino
• Best Song: “The Weary Kind”(Crazy Heart) Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
• Best Makeup: “Star Trek” Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
• Best Visual Effects: “Avatar” Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones
• Best Sound Editing: “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson
• Best Sound Mixing: “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
• Best Animated Short: “Logorama” Nicolas Schmerkin
• Best Live Action Short: “The New Tenants” Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
• Best Documentary Short: “Music by Prudence” Roger Ross Williams and Elinor

-Some trivia...The Hurt Locker becomes the lowest grossing Best Picture winner in history, Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to ever win Best Director, and all of the 8 major awards were won by first-time honorees (with only Bridges having been previously nominated at all). Congrats to them all!

Kathryn Bigelow chooses her next project!

Well, it's a pilot for an HBO show, surprisingly (though, as the article states, it's becoming a trend lately). Here's the story from The Hollywood Reporter:

HBO has snagged the hottest film director at the moment, Oscar nominee for "The Hurt Locker" Kathryn Bigelow.

Bigelow has come on board to direct "The Miraculous Year," a drama pilot by top feature writer John Logan.

Logan created and wrote "The Miraculous Year," an examination of a New York family as seen through the lens of a charismatic, self-destructive Broadway composer.

Logan, who is executive producing with Bigelow and Lydia Pilcher, has a theater background. He started off as a playwright before his first screenplay, "Any Given Sunday," got the attention of Oliver Stone.

"Miraculous Year" has been given a pilot order, with filming eyed to begin in May-June.

Bigelow has rarely ventured to television. Her resume includes directing three episodes of NBC's "Homicide: Life on the Street," including the two-part sixth-season finale, and an episode of ABC's underrated "Karen Sisco."

"Miraculous Year," a light family drama with a flamboyant character at the center, marks Bigelow's first pilot and also a major departure for the director known mostly for gritty fare such as "Strange Days" or "K-19: The Widowmaker."

Bigelow recently became the first woman to ever win a DGA Award. She has picked up more than a dozen major directing prizes for her work on "Hurt Locker." In addition to being a frontrunner for the directing Oscar next month, Bigelow is also part of the Iraq war drama's producing team that won the PGA Award and is up for a best picture Oscar.

Logan previously collaborated with HBO on the Orson Welles telepic "RKO 281," which he wrote.

He has earned two original screenplay Oscar nominations, for "The Aviator" and "Gladiator."

His writing credits also include "The Last Samurai," "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" and a second collaboration with director Martin Scorsese following "The Aviator," the upcoming "The Invention of Hugo Cabret."

"Miraculous Year" is the latest in a string of series projects with marquee feature auspices HBO has put in the development in the past several months.

The list includes "Luck," a horse racing drama pilot directed by Michael Mann, an aid-workers drama project starring Maria Bello, written by Simon Beaufoy and produced by Bello, Beaufoy and Russell Crowe; a crime drama produced by David Fincher and Charlize Theron; and a groupie comedy starring Zooey Deschanel.

Additionally, Scorsese directed the pilot of HBO's upcoming drama series "Boardwalk Empire," which he executive produces.

-Thoughts?

Kathryn Bigelow takes home top honors with the Directors Guild of America...

...and she needs to start preparing an Oscar acceptance speech.

-Thoughts?

The 62nd Annual DGA Awards...

...are being announced at the current moment, and as soon as the winners are let loose, we'll have them for you. So far, all we know is that Louie Psihoyo and The Cove won for Documentary.

Update- Kathryn Bigelow takes the big prize for The Hurt Locker!

-Thoughts?

Does Kathryn Bigelow have another film she's interested in making?

Seems as such, according to this in The Hollywood Reporter:

The Golden Globes aren't the only thing that Kathryn Bigelow has riding this weekend.

The director, who has been riding high for the past year with "The Hurt Locker," will likely find out if she has another directing gig.

Bigelow is attached to direct "Held by the Taliban," a package out to studios Friday that aims to adapt a five-part New York Times series about David Rohde's experience as a captive of the Taliban in Afghanistan for seven months. (The reporter was kidnapped with two Afghan colleagues on Nov. 10, 2008, as they traveled to an interview with a Taliban commander outside of Kabul.)

Stephen Belber, who most recently wrote and directed the Jennifer Aniston comedy "Management," is attached to adapt, and Kennedy/Marshall is attached to produce. ICM put the package together.

Unlike other directors, who attach themselves to multiple projects after a hit movie, or a comeback, Bigelow has been patient and choosy with whom she partners. Since "The Hurt Locker" was released in June, she has attached herself only to "Triple Frontiers," a drug project set in South America that sees her reteaming with "Hurt Locker" writer Mark Boal.

-Both projects sound like they could be very interesting...thoughts?

Curious about the relationship between Oscar and Women Directors?

Then check out John Foote's article on the Main Page of the Awards Circuit. It can be found here and is another great read that I implore you to check out and discuss.
-Thoughts?

10 Great (According to Film School Rejects) Films You Didn't Know Were Directed by Women...

Indeed, Film School Rejects has done this list, and while I think more than a couple of these people will already know a woman directed, it's an interesting group of films. The whole article can be found here, but this is the list:

10. Real Genius (Martha Coolidge)
9. Titus (Julie Taymor)
8. American Psycho (Mary Harron)
7. Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow)
6. Billy Madison (Tamra Davis)
5. Hideout in the Sun (Doris Wishman)
4. Wayne's World (Penelope Spheeris)
3. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling)
2. Big (Penny Marshall)
1. Pet Cemetery (Mary Lambert)

-Thoughts?

Kathryn Bigelow to be honored at the Hollywood Film Festival

Here's the story in Variety:

Helmer Kathryn Bigelow will be feted with the Hollywood Director Award at the 13th annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood awards Oct. 26 in Beverly Hills.

Along with Bigelow, Nora Ephron will be honored with the Hollywood Screenwriter Award while Disney's "Up" and "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" will be presented with the Hollywood Animation Award and the Hollywood Visual Effect Award.

Bigelow's latest pic "The Hurt Locker" bowed this past June to critical acclaim Ephron's latest laffer "Julie and Julia" has brought in more than $90 million at the B.O.

"Transformers" recently surpassed the $400 million mark at the domestic B.O. while "Up" has become the second highest-grossing Pixar film with more than $290 million in box office grosses.

-Congrats to her!

Today's News: The writer and the director of 'The Hurt Locker' reteam on a new project, The Venice Film Fest to have a 3D competition, and more...

In the news:

Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal, who currently are enjoying high praise as the director and writer, respectively, of 'The Hurt Locker' are coming together again on an ensemble action-adventure film, with the plot kept under wraps right now.

Venice will have a prize for the top 3D film, with all the entries being American flicks, and recent releases being heavy among them.

The remake of 'Red Dawn' adds some cast members to its current group of Wolverines.

Frank Langella has been cast in Oliver Stone's 'Wall Street 2', along with Shia and Gordon Gekko himself.

Finally, remember Tara Reid? Well, she's joined an indie comedy that also boasts in its cast Christopher Lloyd, Tom Arnold, and Dave Foley.

-Thoughts?