The Hurt Locker beat out Avatar for Best Picture (and director – Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman to win) but the sci-fi extravaganza did take statues for visual effects, cinematography, and art direction. I don’t find this particularly heartbreaking: Avatar might have been a fun movie to watch, but Best Picture? Ehh.
Best Picture was really the only uncertain prize going in, so there weren’t many surprises for the genre winners: Pixar’s Up took Animated feature and Music, while Star Trek got Makeup. (District 9 will always have this, I suppose.)
First off, Hollywood does not like James Cameron; no matter how much money he brings in. Second, it’s a fantasy film, so that’s another strike against it.
And I was also kinda eh about it being a “Best Picture” candidate. I’m not sad.
or would it be that the story of Avatar already won an Oscar… when it was called Dances with Wolves.
I think the Academy was waiting for everyone to break into song the whole time:
“You think I’m an ignorant savage
And you’ve been so many places
I guess it must be so
But still I cannot see
If the savage one is me”
Uuh, bad memories. ;-)