On a night when so many changes were intended to shake up the Oscar ceremony, the winners themselves were pretty predictable, with "The Hurt Locker" taking six awards including best picture."Hurt Locker" director Kathryn Bigelow won the top directing honor for her intimate Iraq war drama, making her the first woman to take the prize — though as she's often said, she likes to think of herself as a filmmaker, period.
"I hope I'm the first of many," she said afterward backstage. "I long for the day when that modifier can be a moot point."
But as fellow director Barbra Streisand put it in announcing Bigelow's victory, "Well, the time has come."
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