14 DAY TRIAL // Shortly after the nominations for this year’s Oscar awards were announced, James Cameron realized that his “Avatar” was competing against his ex-wife’s “The Hurt Locker,” in both Best Director and Best Movie category. If he were to lose, he’d rather he lost to her than to any other director, Cameron said at the time, probably little aware that this would actually happen.
Still, Sigourney Weaver says in an interview cited by the New York Post, Cameron didn’t win because Kathryn Bigelow’s movie was better or she was a more accomplished director. On the contrary, Cameron lost precisely because he wasn’t a little known director who had a movie no one would see in the competition, the actress believes. The Academy gives out awards depending on certain criteria – and Cameron did not fit them because he wasn’t a woman.
“Jim didn’t have breasts, and I think that was the reason. He should have taken home that Oscar,” Weaver said about how the Academy had already decided to write movie history with this year’s awards ceremony by handing the first award to a female director. “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,” the star, who also appears in “Avatar” as one of the leading characters, further says.
As fans must know, even before the release of the record-breaking film, Sigourney Weaver, who first worked with Cameron on “Alien,” did more promotion for it than any other member of the cast. Also recently, the actress revealed that Cameron had concrete plans of having her character, Dr. Grace Augustine, back for a sequel to the movie, though when exactly that might happen is not known just yet.
“Sigourney Weaver appeared on the TV show ‘Le Grand Journal.’ The actress is in Paris this week to honor Harrison Ford during the Cesar Awards (the French equivalent of the Oscars). During her interview, Weaver was asked if she would be part of Avatar 2 and she made it clear that she has already talked about it with James Cameron, who is planning to include her in the sequel. But how is that possible? […] Remember, after Grace died, Mo’at declared that ‘she is with Eywa now.’ Weaver explained on the talk show that her character still exists ‘in the tree,’ and while she can’t promise anything, James Cameron has some ideas on how to keep ‘the family together’,” SlashFilm was saying a while ago, as we also reported.