Reflections from the pensieve

The nominees for the best Directing are:

And the Oscar goes to:
Kathryn Bigelow

For bringing the “on the edge” lives of the soldiers to reality, for a brilliant execution of a tense subject, for portraying the story of a human being who’s addicted to what he’s so effectively. If Avatar stood apart in the Oscar nominations with 9 category nominations The Hurt Locker was close to its heels with 9 nominations as well.
• Actor in a Leading Role
• Cinematography
• Directing
• Film Editing
• Music (Original Score)
• Best Picture
• Sound Editing
• Sound Mixing
• Writing (Original Screenplay)

The news just in Kathryn won the 2010 Directors Guild Awards. She is giving tough competition to James Cameron who may well win the statuette in the end (Oscars are notorious to be heavily biased). Well if Kathryn wins the Oscar for the best Directing she becomes the first woman to win this award. Hurt Locker has got rave reviews from critics all over the world. With the base of Iraq invasion Kathryn presents a tense story of a bomb disposal squad, where death is biting at their heels every second. They wait every second in tension counting the days to go back home and so are you, one year would these 3 go back home alive, 3 months would they go back alive, 3 days would they go back alive. Such is the drama and emotion that Kathryn has weaved in the Hurt Locker. Cameron won the covetous best direction award in Golden Globes and Kathryn won it in Bafta, one waits to see what would happen in the Oscars. Cameron is no wonder amazing in Avatar, but Avatar is just a technology marvel, it’s not a reality, there are no scenes where you are at the edge of your seat and by far its predictable but same can’t be said about the Hurt Locker, you are tensed as the characters, you cannot predict its ending (some may and I won’t debate with them period), and the story is much much strong than what is there in Avatar. Speaking about others, Lee Daniels I won’t consider him in contest with the biggies, Quentin gets a solid chance at the award with his WWII fantasy flick (I simply loved the direction in Inglourious Basterds) and Jason Reitman for presenting a simple yet complex story of a isolated busy man. Quentin was amazing with his movie, and he has been awarded in many independent guilds for his direction in this movie, I mean who can better make a simple conversation into a tense murderous plot, or who can get the hated Hitler murdered by a spray of bullets, who can get your ears ringing with the plundering sound of the baseball bat, has to be Quentin. Many claim that Quentin has a good chance of winning it, sigh if only Avatar and Hurt Locker not released, he would have made the cut. But maybe who knows……