Kathryn Bigelow made history when she won the Academy Award for Best Director for "The Hurt Locker," as until that moment, not a single female filmmaker had ever received an Oscar in that category. While Bigelow absolutely deserves the Oscar, it's hard not to scratch your head and wonder — what took so long?
There is no shortage of incredibly talented female directors working both in and outside of Hollywood, so the fact that it took 82 Academy Award ceremonies for a woman to win Best Director is more than a little bit puzzling.
After the jump, we've listed five female filmmakers that absolutely deserved an Oscar for their work. Read More...
She directed "A League of Their Own" and she'd like to return to the ballgame, but Penny Marshall says Hollywood isn't hankering for more sports movies right now. 
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The iPad Release Was Forecast By Tom Hanks... In 1988!
Posted 4/2/10 11:58 am EST by Adam Rosenberg in Commentary, Humor
Everyone seems to forget that this is old news. Seriously old. The Internet as we now know it was barely a glimmer in your basic computer geek's eye back in 1988, the stuff of sci-fi fantasizing at best. We know this because Tom Hanks played one of those geeks... sort of. And wouldn't you know it, he brainstorms a bold, new toy... which sounds an awful lot like an iPad. Read More...
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