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...woman and not because she's a woman who makes stereotypically 'guy' movies, but because The Hurt Locker was a damn good movie and she was the primary reason it worked ... The fact that it took 82 years for the Academy to give the Best Director award to a female filmmaker should be cause for shame and embarrassment, rather than self-lionizing accolades." --3/8/10
...topics" list. When an unidentified woman Kanye'd the Best Documentary Short director, barging onstage and taking the mike as he gave his acceptance speech, viewers were baffled - unless they were following Twitter, whose hive mind quickly deduced that she was the film's producer, kept from accepting the award after a falling...
...alone, the Oscars show was the usual gala of stars, thank-yous and back-patting. On social-media platforms, it was a conversation about fashion (what is J. Lo wearing?), race (why do they cut to Morgan Freeman every time Precious wins an award?) and politics (Fox News paranoiac Glenn Beck tweeted that Avatar vs. The Hurt Locker was "an anti US/human movie against an anti US/Troops movie"). TV with Twitter is like an instant DVD commentary. (See pictures of Oscar fashion from the red carpet...
Cohen is a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers—the University’s second-highest governing body—and the Board of Dean’s Advisers at HBS. He is also a recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award...
Attaining All-American status was only the crowning jewel on the co-captain’s already-decorated college career. The Phoenix, Ariz. native has received the Sharon Beckman Award, given to Harvard’s most outstanding swimmer, for two consecutive seasons. In her main event—the 1,650 free—Clarke has posted top-30 finishes at the NCAA championships all four years. Although she is the first female Crimson swimmer to gain All-American status since 2006, Clarke is the first to specifically do so in the 1,650 in over 18 years...