Krem News Director

Krem News Director

Krem News Director

Posted on: December 24, 2011 - 9:08 pm
by Admin

Reactions to Bigelow's Oscar were split between satisfaction and frustration as motion picture production by women remains a male-dominated industry.

"I'll celebrate women's achievements in movies when women regularly win best screenplay, best directing and best movie, not once every 82 years," Witness Productions Carole Ducharme explained in an email.

Academy Awards and Box Office Results

With her own nomination for Fifty Dead Men Walking, based on the Irish Republican Army, Ottawa-born Kari Skogland was Bigelow’s Canadian counterpart. Canadian female directors had won in the past, but Skogland’s was the first nomination for an action film. She won a Genie for Best Adapted Screenplay.