This is based on old news, to be sure, but today’s female chauvinist pig award goes to (drum roll): Sigourney Weaver!
In an interview with a Brazilian news website, Weaver said the Academy’s choice of best director was motivated by the fact that a woman had never won the prize.
“Jim didn’t have breasts, and I think that was the reason,” Weaver told Folha Online. “He should have taken home that Oscar,” she said.
“Today it’s fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw,” Weaver said.
Le sigh.
I can’t even begin to discuss my reaction to this…..
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While I disagree (Hurt Locker>>>Avatar), she did star in Avatar.
She’s 100% right about giving the Oscar to a small movies no one sees. When was the last time a popular movie got an Oscar?
Yeah. Jim doesn’t have breasts but his blue, non-mammalian aliens did – because, you know, the womenz have to have breasts in the movies, even if their species doesn’t actually breast-feed.
Maybe Cameron didn’t win the Academy Award because his film was truly awful with a boring, hackneyed plot?
I really like Sigourney Weaver… but this is like a slap to the ear for me. We all say STUPID things sometimes. I think maybe if given a little more time to think it over she might take back what she said. I saw the hurt locker and thought it ruled pigeons and very much deserved the Oscar.
No…… Cameron didn’t win because 1. Hurt Locker was really good. and 2. Avatar was sci-fi. The Academy of Motion pictures and their voters HATE sci-fi. They absolutely despise it. and 3. If any sci-fi film deserved to win, it was District 9.