Who Is The Ultimate Game Changer In Entertainment?

HuffPost's Game Changers series celebrates 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders in 12 categories who, whether working in the spotlight or under the radar, are changing how we look at the world and the way we live in it. We salute them for their willingness to look at things and take the risk of saying, "I think I have a better way."

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Kathryn Bigelow

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Changed the game by ... defeating the kings of the movie world. In 2010, Bigelow, who directed the Iraq war movie "The Hurt Locker," became the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director. Bigelow is not just one of the rare successful female filmmakers in Hollywood, she's succeeded in action movies, a universe almost uniformly dominated by male explosion artists. She told the New York Times that she makes movies “to transport you to an event or a physicality or a location or an experience or an emotional odyssey that is purely experiential.” She said it: "If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie, the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't. There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible. It is." Must-click link: Bigelow on "Charlie Rose"

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Changed the game by ... defeating the kings of the movie world. In 2010, Bigelow, who directed the Iraq war movie "The Hurt Locker," became the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director. Bigelow is not just one of the rare successful female filmmakers in Hollywood, she's succeeded in action movies, a universe almost uniformly dominated by male explosion artists. She told the New York Times that she makes movies “to transport you to an event or a physicality or a location or an experience or an emotional odyssey that is purely experiential.”

She said it: "If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie, the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't. There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible. It is."

Must-click link: Bigelow on "Charlie Rose"

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[Dailykook]

02:15 PM on 11/12/2010

He'll change the American game by cutting his pubes with someone else's scissors.

[AN2009]

06:52 PM on 11/06/2010

I agree with some of the choices such as Kathryn Bigelow, Jeff Skoll, and Matthew Weiner as deserving of recognition. However, the other ones like Kal Penn and will.i.am are just confusing because while they do make money, they're just not unique or talented in my opinion.

[FabulousAt52]

06:48 PM on 10/22/2010

I can't agree. Tyler Perry is good... but he's stuck in a rut of his own making. Look closely; every movie, every tv show he produces has the same 6-8 actors in it. The story lines are all so similar one can predict who will end up with whom, and who's going to get theirs from the once shy, but righteously fed-up mad black woman who ain't gonna take it anymore...

WHY was this comment deleted the first time?? WHY HP?

[EricBishop]

11:42 PM on 10/21/2010

The Hurt Locker wasn't really groundbreaking. Point Break certainly resonates with audiences more even just a year later. Tyler Perry and James Cameron have really only made one great movie apiece. Perry needed Oprah. Cameron needed Aliens. The Black Eyed Peas are an abomination. Kal Penn is great, but COME ON.

Mad Men is amazing. It's Weiner.

[Nicole Dixson]

09:45 PM on 10/21/2010

James Cameron doesn't belong on this list. That is like having Spielberg or Lucas on this list. They have owned the "game" for a long time now.

[defdes]

05:01 PM on 10/21/2010

And they all did it out of the goodness of their own hearts.

[J Accuse]

04:01 PM on 10/21/2010

Would somebody please explain to me how being a spoiled hausfrau is in any way noteworthy?

[PresidentRobertBooth]

10:40 AM on 10/21/2010

Me


I've taken HP by storm baby!

[americancolonyinhell]

10:00 AM on 10/21/2010

What a noxious concept: ultimate game changer. Talk about speaking in the tongue of the matrix.

[MahatmaCoat]

09:28 AM on 10/21/2010

C'mon. Knock it off with this "game changers" b.s. It's all subjective and is thoroughly unimportant. Leave the ranked lists to People magazine.

[powerhuff]

09:08 AM on 10/21/2010

Changed by poor dentistry?

[hess44]

07:40 PM on 10/14/2010

I vote O'Reilly, he changed 2 peoples games today.

[RageCage]

02:28 PM on 10/14/2010

I vote for William Adams (will.i.am) for his wonderful ability to write such gripping lyrics as "Imma Be, Imma Be, Imma, Imma, Imma Be... (repeat ad nauseum)"

[AyeChart]

11:53 AM on 10/14/2010

Can I vote for the Sister on the Top Floor? The Nun of the Above?

[Dunkleberger Karl]

06:42 PM on 10/14/2010

Voting for your sister ? ah Texas Love!

[Redemption Song]

10:03 AM on 10/14/2010

Perry and will.i.am have heart; I have a "mind crush" on Penn (I like smart, attractive, active men ;); it's v. cool that Bigelow won; but my favorite, hands down, is Jeff Skoll.

[eric14]

07:57 PM on 10/16/2010

Skoll is going ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSBr_R7FTWI