Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Greg Shapiro celebrate Hurt Locker's Oscars victory (Photo: PA)
I must confess that I have not seen any of her films so I can't claim to have a particularly well informed view on whether the honour is well deserved or not. I would just like to say that it is interesting that the first woman to win the best Director Award should do so with a war film, a typically male genre with an essentially male cast.
It is quite typical, isn't it, that women need to prove themselves in a way that men recognise and can understand in order to make it in traditionally male fields. In any event, congratulations to Kathryn Bigelow and let's hope she opens the way for more women directors, hopefully with films from all genres and even with women in their cast!
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