82nd Academy Awards Blogathon: Best Director

Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker, James Cameron – Avatar, Lee Daniels – Precious, Jason Reitman – Up in the Air, Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

There’s usually always one category at the Academy Awards that exemplifies the politics behind the filmmaking. In past years, it’s spanned from Best Picture (gay rights vs. diversity in Brokeback Mountain and Crash,) Best Actor (race vs. um, the mentally challenged? Denzel Washington for Training Day vs. Sean Penn in I Am Sam.) This year the politics have found their way into the Best Director category.

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