Kathryn Bigelow and "The Hurt Locker" became official awards-season front-runners Saturday afterwards Bigelow won the top award-winning from the Admiral Guild of America.The 58-year-old filmmaker is the aboriginal woman to win the guild's top honor, which positions her and the blur as shoe-ins for the Academy Awards. The DGA boasts that its champ has gone on to win the Oscar all but six times back 1948.This is the best absurd moment of my life," Bigelow said backstage. She downplayed her gender, saying, "I accept I like to anticipate of myself as a filmmaker.Still, she was the alone nominated administrator who becoming accolades for her anatomy as able-bodied as her filmmaking. Bigelow was up adjoin Quentin Tarantino for "Inglourious Basterds," Jason Reitman for "Up in the Air," Lee Daniels for "Precious" and her ex-husband James Cameron for "Avatar.Hurt Locker" brilliant Jeremy Renner alleged Bigelow "a warrior, my best and the best advantageous actor's director.Tarantino accepted her as "queen of directors." He said his adolescent nominees accept been spending so abundant time together, they accept become "like a superstar bedrock bandage
