So last week Kathryn Bigelow won Best Director at the Academy Awards. However, when her film The Hurt Locker was introduced as a Best Picture Nominee the presenter was none other than Keanu Reeves. I didn't hear a single word he said about the eventual winner of the Best Picture. Instead, all I heard was, "I am an EFFFF-BEEE-EEEEYE AGENT." What a kick in the pants to Kathryn Bigelow, or skirt if you will. Here she is at the pinnacle of her career and this is what the Academy decides? I can hear the conversation now.
"Hey, you know who we will get to introduce Kathryn Bigelow's award winning film? The dude she directed in Point Break."
"Patrick Swayze. He is dead?"
"No not him, the other guy."
"Gary Busey? He is insane."
"No the one who had a semi-successful career afterwards."
"Anthony Kedis...?"
Thats right, on arguably the biggest day of her professional life they decided to remind everyone that she was the director behind one of the most comically bad movies of the 80s. Niiiiiiice move Academy Award producers. They didn't freaking trot out Jessica Alba to talk about Avatar!!! No one mentioned that Cameron had directed Piranha 2: The Spawning at the beginning of his career. As much as I love how bad Point Break the Oscars probably wasn't the best time to remind people of that albatross around Ms. Bigelow's neck.
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