Oscar Time

Katherine Bigelow

Nominations are due out, um, soon.
The three NYT critics list of "should be's" agree on only one, The Hurt Locker, coming to my house next week.
I think that any critic who names Julie and Julia, Public Enemies or Funny People should also be arguing for shorter lists.
The Hurt Locker's director, Katherine Bigelow (briefly married to James Cameron, I love this kind of trivia) is also on all three lists, again the only one to make all three.
I'm now suspicious. If the Oscars turn out this way, the film could actually make money.
Whoaa, Mama, it takes screenplay, too.
Wait, if Bigelow gets it, she'd be the first woman, right? And with a best picture, wowza!
No, wait, did Sophia Coppola get it for Lost In Translation? Dunno. Too late to check.

UPDATE: Wiki Answers

Three women were nominated in the Best Director category. The last two won an Oscar for the screenplay of the movie they directed.

1976 Lina Wertmuller, Seven Beauties

1993 Jane Campion, The Piano

2003 Sofia Coppola, Lost in Translation