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Avatar director James Cameron had a chance to win his fourth and fifth Oscar on Sunday, but he lost out to wife No. 3 Kathryn Bigelow who won the Best Director and Best Motion Picture categories for The Hurt Locker at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards.
Cameron and Bigelow were married from 1989-1991, which was after Cameron’s first Terminator and Aliens but before Titantic. While in between marriages to two other women in 1995, Cameron co-wrote Strange Days for Bigelow.
Kathryn Bigelow is the first female to win the Oscar for Best Director for directing The Hurt Locker, and James can take some of the credit for agreeing to look over the movie script for Kathryn and then recommending that she drop whatever she was doing to accept the offer to direct The Hurt Locker.
Cameron’s Avatar has been more of a box office success than Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker. But while he won Best Motion Picture at the Golden Globes, she snagged the Golden Globe for Best Director to become the first female to accomplish the feat. During his acceptance speech for Best Motion Picture, James acknowledged Kathryn’s accomplishment.
Cameron, who is now in his longest marriage to wife No. 5 Suzy Amis, had said he hoped his ex beats him again to win the Oscar for Best Director while he takes home the trophy for Best Picture.
But Kathryn ended up winning both categories at the Academy Awards on Sunday in a major triumph for women and especially ex-wives.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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