Best Director and Picture

Winning Best Picture recognizes the producer as project manager; coordinating all the resources and personnel in an ensemble effort to bring a story to screen. The award for Best Director is for the individual effort of executing a personal vision...

Chicago Sun Times film critic Roger Ebert described "The Hurt Locker" as a film made with little cash, but limitless willpower.

The two Oscars often go to the same film. Hardly ever to one as seldom seen in theaters... Never before to a woman.

While other women have won producing Oscars, Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman in the Academy Award’s 82-year history to win the Best Director award.

Here & Now's Emiko Tamagawa met the director as part of a 2009 publicity tour.

Audio: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now 3/8/10, Host: Robin Young. Reporter: Emiko Tamagawa.

Studio 360 featured the double winner in an Oscar Weekend episode.

MTV's Josh Wigler explores what's next for Kathryn Bigelow.