{"id":1775,"date":"2010-03-08T02:11:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T07:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2010-03-08T10:12:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T15:12:34","slug":"queen-of-the-world-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=1775","title":{"rendered":"Queen of the World, Baby!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1782\" title=\"Mace\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mace-155x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mace-155x300.jpg 155w, https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mace.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/a>Women nominated for Best Director Oscars:<\/p>\n<p>Lina Wertm\u00fcller, <em>Seven Beauties<\/em>, 1976.<br \/>\nJane Campion, <em>The Piano<\/em>, 1993<em>.<\/em><br \/>\nSophia Coppola, <em>Lost in Translation<\/em>, 2003<em>.<\/em><br \/>\nKathryn Bigelow, <em>The Hurt Locker<\/em>, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Winner, 2010:<br \/>\nKathryn Bigelow<br \/>\nBest Director, Best Picture.<\/p>\n<p>Four nominations, one lone winner &#8212; out of 164 awards in the two categories since 1928.  The award is long overdue, meager, and encouraging only if this tiny step is the first of many.<\/p>\n<p>As for Bigelow&#8217;s major 500-pound gorilla competitor: sometimes bows and arrows do prevail over nuclear warheads, after all.  Look at the bright side, fanbois.  The price of <em>Avatar<\/em> lunchboxes should go through the floor.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image:<\/em> Angela Bassett as the formidable Lornette &#8220;Mace&#8221; Mason in Bigelow&#8217;s unfairly overlooked <em>Strange Days<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women nominated for Best Director Oscars: Lina Wertm\u00fcller, Seven Beauties, 1976. Jane Campion, The Piano, 1993. Sophia Coppola, Lost in Translation, 2003. Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker, 2010. Winner, 2010: Kathryn Bigelow Best Director, Best Picture. Four nominations, one lone winner &#8212; out of 164 awards in the two categories since 1928. The award is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-biology-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}