Sigourney Weaver: James Cameron Lost Oscar Because He Didn't Have Breasts

While promoting 'Avatar' in Brazil over the weekend, Sigourney Weaver slammed the Academy for voting for 'The Hurt Locker' and Kathryn Bigelow. She said Jim Cameron lost to his ex-wife, Kathryn Bigelow, because she's a woman--who became the first ever to take home the Best Director Oscar.

"Jim didn't have breasts, and I think that was the reason," she told told Folha Online, a Brazilian news site. "He should have taken home that Oscar."

Weaver also voiced her disapproval of the Best Picture choice, suggesting it should have gone to 'Avatar.'

"In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because they [Oscar voters] loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw," Weaver said.

'The Hurt Locker' has taken in a total of $40 million worldwide ($16 million in the US), while 'Avatar' has grossed a whopping $2.7 billion worldwide ($743.7 million in the US).

Comments

[miriada]

08:44 AM on 05/13/2010

I think Cameron't movie carries a deep anti-war humanistic message. He was able to nail down the root of the modern war - battle for resources. Therefore, the main purpose for such war is to reduce the population and main targets are women and children. He gave us a serious warning of what we have now and what we'll have in future, packed a in pretty technological and populistic, if you wish, bubble wrap. That's why he's such a genius.
Hurt Locker, on the other hand, while showing horrors of the war, was trying to portray the aggressor in the humanistic way, wrapped in the small form of the indie movie made by unstable camera. Which carries the completely opposite message disguised in the sundance festival type of form.

That's why I choose Avatar over Hurt Locker despite some corniness and "unoriginality" of the message.

[Limetime]

08:42 PM on 04/15/2010

Sigourney, if your daddy hadn't been Pat Weaver your career would have been, "would you like fries with that?"

Don't be jealous of other successful women.

[Rob Halpin]

11:56 AM on 04/15/2010

I'm a huge, huge fan of Sigourney and I admire her work and everything she does outside of work (e.g., her environmental activism). However I think her comments -- albeit taken out of context -- are petty and not very classy. I think she'll come to regret them.

Avatar was amazing. Can't wait for the sequel!

[ThankGodhesgone]

12:42 AM on 04/15/2010

I haven't seen Avatar, but I did watch The Hurt Locker and Precious. Even if the competition were just between these two, Precious was a much better movie.

[kas70]

01:00 AM on 04/15/2010

I'm not interested in The Hurt Locker. I loved Precious. And Avatar should have won BP and BD.

[cookerman45]

11:28 PM on 04/14/2010

now she is acting like an alienbitch

[MaryKathO]

10:03 PM on 04/14/2010

And Sigourney being in 'Avatar' had absolutely nothing to do with her bias in support of it winning the Oscar for Best Picture or James Cameron for Best Director? Oh Please! The Hurt Locker was a far superior film; exquisite screenplay, exceptional acting from virtual un-knowns (no slams on Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pierce, or Evangeline Lily!), and beautifully handled directing from a very deserving Director, who just happens to be a woman. Shame on you, Sigourney...what a cheap shot and classless thing to say. Were you as loose-lipped here at home in the states, right after the Oscars, and would you have the guts to say the same thing to Ms. Bigelow's face? I doubt it.

[Blues02]

09:48 PM on 04/14/2010

"Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw"

Yeah 40 million dollars at the box office means no one saw it. Sure it did not make as much as Avatar but at the same time how many theaters actually had The Hurt Locker? Only one theater in my city had it while Avatar was on every screen.

If you take away Avatars cool graphics you just have another mediocre movie.

[HHarvey]

09:34 PM on 04/14/2010

Avatar did not win, and by the way I did like it, but it did not win because it was a very familiar story line, nothing fresh. The visuals and cgi were very good and I felt totally entertained for my money. Oscar worthy? Not really. Saw Hurt Locker twice, I liked the story line better.

[SonyaInTx]

09:19 PM on 04/14/2010

Jim's movie sucked compaired to the other nominees.


Sigorney serves her master well. How many Jim Cameron movies did she make? I thought so....

[SonyaInTx]

09:22 PM on 04/14/2010

....and another thing....Sigorney should tell that same logic to all other female directors who were nominated and didn't win in Academy history....

[Ryan Larsen]

05:43 PM on 04/14/2010

The only movie that got robbed by "The Hurt Locker" was "Inglorious Basterds" for original screenplay.

[HHarvey]

09:31 PM on 04/14/2010

I thought the exact same thing.

[Begbie]

05:42 PM on 04/14/2010

Not everybody wants to watch a cgi movie. They're still cool but the whole time I know there's a green screen really in the background. But the revelancy of the Hurt Locker won the award not Bigelow's gender. Sigourney Weaver, you did Ghostbusters as the gatekeeper or whatever, don't take yourself or your work so seriously.

[keysbreezin]

05:30 PM on 04/14/2010

Has she been "pallin" around with Kanye West lately?

[juicyhopfrog]

04:35 PM on 04/14/2010

Such bad form. Truly tasteless.

[phantoma]

01:18 PM on 04/14/2010

Yes, Sigourney. The Hurt Locker won because Bigelow has breasts. Kind of like when Jane Campion and Barbara Streisand lost and countless others never got nominated because they didn't have a d**k.

[Benjo333]

01:38 PM on 04/14/2010

Barbara always lost because she is so horribly over the top in everything she touches...I almost barfed when I watched her in Prince of Tides...its was so awful...embarrassing really.

[phantoma]

01:36 PM on 04/15/2010

Agreed about the Prince of Tides. But a lot of people will argue that Avatar was awful too and others hated the Gladiator, Titanic and countless other best picture winners that were directed by titless men.
But nobody ever says that these films won because the directors were men, especially in such a tasteless way.
I was just commenting on the flawed logic of her argument.

[AGarcia]

12:51 PM on 04/14/2010

Way too much blue for my dollars. I'm going to wait for the new Tron.