My favorite Oscar moment was watching Kathryn Bigelow on stage when The Hurt Locker won Best Picture. She held her two Oscar statuettes in her hands like a pair free weights and kept wandering away from the microphone and out of camera range to the point that screenwriter Mark Boal grabbed her arm and held her there. After Barbra Streisand announced the name of the winner in the Best Director category, Kathryn Bigelow climbed the stairs, made a gracious speech and walked off stage. In the dark wing, people who heard the announcement she hadn’t, turned her around and sent her back out into the spotlight. She was a woman in shock. I really enjoyed the opportunity watch the physical manifestations of a person in shock, when the woman in question was in shock for a happy reason.
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