Here on Third Street a group of us watched the Oscars and ate Dibs, those bite sized frozen snacks they sell at movie theaters.
What a blast to check in with Pops Corn every few minutes and read his on-going commentary, which was very interesting and fun.
For the first time we had a betting pool. The person, who picked the most winners won the $6 that was in the pool.
For me high points were the nominations for Best Actor and Actress written and read by friends and colleagues of the nominees.
The super highpoint was, of course, Kathryn Bigelow winning the award for Best Director for The Hurt Locker. She is the first woman to ever win in that category. It seems she avoided marking the historical nature of her win in her thank you speech. She’s too macho for that. She did recognize the armed services, first responders, firefighters, etc. and that was cool.
The occasion did inspire me to list all the women directors I can think of. I know there are so many more but here goes: Jane Campion, Nancy Myers, Sue Kramer, Agnes Varda, Chantel Ackerman, Barbara Kopple, Margarethe von Trotta, Lina Wertmuller, Sophia Coppola, Catherine Hardwicke, Barbra Streisand, Elaine May, Charlotte Zwerin, Chris Hedges, Jill Godmillow…(to be continued)
And finally, what an upset: I was expecting Avatar to win the Best Picture but, thankfully, it went to The Hurt Locker, surely one of the best anti-war films of recent times if not ever.
Oh, and my stepmother won the betting pool with 12 correct answers…
Finally, my gratitude to Pops Corn for his live blogging. What a fun way to watch the show!
One more thing: Where was Jack Nicholson?
you forgot Nora Ephron and Rebecca Miller.
And don’t forget the actress Ida Lupino, who directed 7 films between 1948 and 1952, a time when women were definitely NOT directing movies. None of them was particularly successful, so she turned her attention to television, until 1966 when she directed one of my favorite childhood movies “The Trouble With Angels”.