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Golden Globes: A female director continues the Kathryn Bigelow tradition

By Steven Zeitchikwriter 
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Last year’s award season saw Kathryn Bigelow break a glass ceiling for female directors, with a Golden Globe nomination and an Oscar win for ‘The Hurt Locker’ filmmaker. This year, no female director is on the short list for best director at the Globes, but Danish director Susanne Bier picked up the mantle with a win for her disaffected-youth drama ‘In a Better World.’

Bier didn’t shy away from the subject backstage, saying she felt the award carried an extra significance because of her gender. ‘I was actually trying to look it up to see how many women were nominated and how many had won, and I had only see a couple,’ she said.

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— Steven Zeitchik

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Steven Zeitchik

Steven Zeitchik is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer who covered film and the larger world of Hollywood for the paper from 2009 to 2017, exploring the personalities, issues, content and consequences of both the creative and business (and, increasingly, digital) aspects of our screen entertainment. He previously covered entertainment beats at Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, has contributed arts and culture pieces to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the New York Times and has done journalistic tours of duty in Jerusalem and Berlin. While at The Times he has also reported stories in cities ranging from Cairo to Krakow, though Hollywood can still seem like the most exotic destination of all.

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