History made twice at Oscars

The big story to come out of the Academy Awards last night was the Best Director Oscar being awarded to a woman, Kathryn Bigelow, for the first time in the 82 year history of the awards.

That is a huge deal and especially cool considering that only three other women in history have been nominated for that award: Lina Wertmuller, Jane Campion and Sofia Coppola.

Also somewhat poetic that Barbara Streisand presented the award to Bigelow. In a controversial move in 1992, Streisand was shut out of the directing category for her film "The Prince of Tides."

Bigelow's film "The Hurt Locker" also took the Best Picture prize for which she also produced, so she got two Oscars last night.

While all of the attention was focused on Bigelow and being the first woman to win that award, history also was made in the Adapted Screenplay award.

Geoffrey Fletcher came out of nowhere to win the award for "Precious." Everyone had expected "Up in the Air" to take it. Fletcher himself probably thought "Up in the Air" was going to win.

With his win, Fletcher became the first African American to win an Academy Award for Screenwriting. Yes, it has never happened before. Shocking.

Well deserved in my opinion.

And even cooler was that "Precious" was Fletcher's first full length feature screenplay.