{"id":114951,"date":"2016-03-07T13:10:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T11:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/114951\/on-this-day-in-2010-first-female-best-director-oscar\/"},"modified":"2016-03-07T13:10:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T11:10:06","slug":"on-this-day-in-2010-first-female-best-director-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2016\/03\/07\/on-this-day-in-2010-first-female-best-director-oscar\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day in 2010: First female best director Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to Bigelow, only three women had been nominated for a best director Oscar: Lina Wertmueller for 1975\u2019s <em>Seven Beauties<\/em>, Jane Campion for 1993\u2019s <em>The Piano<\/em> and Sofia Coppola for 2003\u2019s <em>Lost in Translation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>At the 82nd Academy Awards in March 2010, Bigelow\u2019s fellow best-director nominees included James Cameron (<em>Avatar<\/em>), whom she was married to from 1989 to 1991, along with Lee Daniels (<em>Precious<\/em>), Jason Reitman (<em>Up in the Air<\/em>) and Quentin Tarantino (<em>Inglorious Basterds<\/em>).<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>After making history by winning the directing prize, Bigelow said: \u201cI hope I\u2019m the first of many [women], and of course, I\u2019d love to just think of myself as a filmmaker. And I long for the day when that modifier can be a moot point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Hurt Locker<\/em>, which starred Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty, also won Oscars for best picture, film editing, sound editing, sound mixing and original screenplay.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kathryn Bigelow Wins Best Directing | 82nd Oscars (2010)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e-DPBOTlSWk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Pic: Corbis<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='ff1e4986b6a91496efe32e517fb703f6'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director, for\u00a0The Hurt Locker, about an American bomb squad that disables explosives in Iraq in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7782,"featured_media":114952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[10143,10144,10145,10146],"class_list":["post-114951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-2010-academy-awards","tag-first-woman-best-director-oscar","tag-kathryn-bigelow","tag-the-hurt-locker"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["2010 academy awards","first woman best director oscar","Kathryn Bigelow","The Hurt Locker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}