Cameron and Bigelow’s showdown on 82nd Oscar Awards!

Posted by: artsyfutsy on: March 7, 2010

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Cameron V.S Bigelow,

Avatar V.S The Hurt Locker

The Academy Awards or also more popularly known as the Oscar Awards, will be having its 82nd ceremony on March 7, 2010. The hosts of the ceremony for this year will be Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. There’s only ONE day left before the Oscar and there’s been much anticipation about the fired up competition between James Cameron and his ex-wife, Kathryn Bigelow and their films “Avatar” and “The Hurt Locker” respectively.

Both “Avatar” and “The Hurt Locker” has each received a total of 9 nominations, leading this year’s Oscars. Besides, both movies will be up for the Best Picture Award and Best Director Award. According to Golden Village’s online poll, 77.71% of viewers have voted for Avatar to win the Best Picture Award and 73.17% voted for Cameron to win the Best Director Award. However, directors from the film industry expect a turnover for the Best Director Award, predicting that Bigelow’s Iraq-based film will secure her an award for that category.

I feel that there is no doubt that Avatar is going to win the Best Picture Award. Having invested on a number of mind-boggling visual effects that took more than a decade to develop, Cameron has managed to bag home the awards of Production Design and Special Visual effects at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Also, the blue-skinned Na’vis have seemed to win the hearts of many, young and old alike.

However we might expect a different result in the case of the Best Director Award. Bigelow has touched on various heart-breaking issues in her film, which earned her the 2009 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film. This is the first time a female director has even won. If Bigelow wins this award tomorrow morning, she will be the first woman director to win an Oscar Top Prize. However we must also take in mind that the committee of the Academy Award has banned Nicolas Chartier (Producer of The Hurt Locker) from attending the ceremony and we cannot have high expectations that Bigelow is going to take homethis award tomorrow morning.

What’s your take on this? Do comment on this post to share with us your views and opinions.

For those who wants to watch this showdown LIVE at the comfort of your very own home, you guys can tune in to Channel 5 from 9.30 AM to 1.00PM (8 March, SG). Fret not if you aren’t free in the morning as there will be a re-run of the ceremony from 10.30PM-2.00AM. Also, you guys may want to catch the Pre-Academy Awards at 6.30 PM. Do get your tissues/confetti ready for the intense competition between Cameron and Bigelow tomorrow. Stay tune to our website as we will be bringing you more updates on the Oscar Awards!

-Miriam