‘The Hurt Locker’ rules on historic Oscars night
Iraq war drama “The Hurt Locker” blew away box office king “Avatar” to take six Oscars, with Kathryn Bigelow becoming the first woman to win the best director award on a historic Hollywood night.
The nerve-jangling movie about a US Army bomb disposal squad in Baghdad also took best picture and best screenplay while “Avatar”, made by Bigelow’s ex-husband James Cameron, won just three Oscars at Sunday’s awards.
“This really is, there’s no other way to describe it, the moment of a lifetime,” said Bigelow, only the fourth woman to be nominated for best director by Academy voters.