According to Sigourney Weaver, Avatar didn’t bring James Cameron a Best Director Oscar this year because Kathryn Bigelow has breasts.

“Jim didn’t have breasts, and I think that was the reason.  He should have taken home that Oscar.”

She went on to rant about the political nature of the Oscars and the only reason Kathryn Bigelow took home an Oscar was so The Academy could make history by naming its first Female Best Director.

Weaver was both promoting Avatar  in Brazil and protesting the proposed Belo Monte dam in the Amazon over the weekend when she made these statements to the Brazil News site, Folha Online.

For someone who has been the face of “Female Empowerment” this is a shocking statement to hear from Sigourney Weaver.   While “who deserves what” and the “politics of Oscar” is open for discussion, I feel that this sort of statement is unfounded as The Hurt Locker was clearly a better executed film than the over-bloated, simplistic popcorn flick that was Avatar.

[Source: NYPost via FilmSchoolRejects]