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Eleanor Barkhorn - Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel.
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Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel. She is a former producer for the Food channel. Before coming to The Atlantic, she was a reporter at the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, Mississippi. She graduated from Princeton University, where she majored in American literature and wrote her senior thesis about Oprah's Book Club. For her first two years out of college, she taught high school English with the Teach For America program.
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'The Hurt Locker' Makes History, Upsets 'Avatar'

By Eleanor Barkhorn

Mar 8 2010, 1:22 AM ET Comment



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The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow made history Sunday night when she became the first woman to win a Best Director Academy award. "The time has come," Best Director award presenter Barbra Streisand announced before reading Bigelow's name out loud.

The independent film about soldiers in Iraq also beat big-budget, high-grossing, James Cameron-directed Avatar, both in the number of awards it won—six to Avatar's three—and in their prestige—Avatar got its Oscars for cinematography, art direction, and visual effects.

Initial reactions to The Hurt Locker's upset ranged from ecstatic:

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To enraged:

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To (presumably) humorous:

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The acting awards came out as expected, with Jeff Bridges winning Best Actor for Crazy Heart, Sandra Bullock winning Best Actress for The Blind Side, Mo'Nique winning Best Supporting Actress for Precious, and Christoph Waltz winning Best Supporting Actor for Inglourious Basterds.

For the full list of winners, click here.
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