i want to congratulate kathryn bigelow for becoming the first... (cheers and applause) woman...irst female woman ever to win "best director" and also the first woman ever to beat her ex-husband in front of a billion people on television. (cheering) she directed, um, she directed "the hurt locker." "the hurt locker"-- "theis a shoe store where they're all dressed like referees, right? (laughter) "the hurt locker" was a small but powerful movie about an army bomb squad in iraq. uh, people are calling it the mostealistic movie ever made about the iraq war. it's so realistic, president bush actually lied to get into it. he-- (laughter) he went to the theater. he told the girl at the box office... (applause) he was 65 or something. most people know kathryn bigelow used to be married to jim cameron, who directed "avatar," which, under california law, means even if he had won the oscar, she'd still get it, so... (laughter) a married couple won for "best film editing" tonight. and here's a bit of oscar trivia for you-- there have been three married couples who won for "best original scr

bigelow: you know, that comes at a terrible, terrible price for him. and he knows it. but he's incapable of doing anything different. >> cameron: frankly, i thought kathryn to get this, so i'm kind of winging it. and she richly deserves it. >> stahl: cameron won at the golden globes for "avatar," the only big award bigelow hasn't won so far. and next week is the biggest one, the oscars. if she does win and beats you out... >> cameron: you mean when she wins as director? >> stahl: you think she's going to win? >> cameron: i think it's an irresistible story-- to finally be able to award the very first directing oscar to a woman, and kathryn... you know, i mean, i'm sure she'll be very ambivalent about this, because she'll be of a mind that, "wait a minute, i want to win for the work, i don't want to win because i'm a woman." but i think it's irresistible at the moment of voting, that story. >> stahl: kathryn bigelow will not like hearing that-- she hates being considered a female director. >> bigelow: there's really no difference between what i do and what, you know, a male filmmaker might do. i mean, we all try to make our days, we all try to give the bes

followed by kathryn bigelow's mammogram with julie chen. probably cost only $1 billion. there's more trouble for toyota. today, a woman in new york claims her prius accelerated out of control in her driveway and caused her to run into a wall. my aunt fran did that without any accelerator problems, so this could be a great excuse for crappy drivers. this is fresh on the hills of that prius that accelerated in san diego and had to be stopped by highway patrol. i don't know. you know, motion is relative. maybe toyotas aren't speeding out of control. maybe the world is slowing out of control. toyota still doesn't have a definitive fix for the problem, but if you bring your car in, they will turn up the volume on your horn for free. [ laughter ] walmart is another company that's subject of some criticism. at one of their stores, they were selling black barbies for half the price of white barbies. they were. some people were upset. walmart explained it had nothing to do with race. the reason it's less expensive is because the white barbie is much

acclaim and nine oscar nomination, including one for best picture and another for its director, kathryn bigelowut it's also run into some blowback just ahead of sunday's academy award presentation. the film's accuracy and portrayal of excessive risk taking have brought criticism from some veterans. and just this week, a bomb disposal expert who served in iraq sued the makers of the film claiming the lead character is based on him. in recent years, the iraq and afghanistan wars haven't translated into big numbers at the box office. films like "in the valley of elah," "stop loss" and the more recent "brothers" have attracted good reviews but not large audiences. by that standard, "the hurt locker" has done reasonably well, but its $1919 million haul is dwarfed by its oscar rival i can't have kwhraf earned more than $2 billion worldwide. more now from ann hornaday a film critic from the "washington post" and paul rieckhoff is an army national guard lieutenant who led a phra tune in iraq from 2003 to 2004. he's executive director of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, an organization that adv

we all applauded kathryn bigelow's crashing finally after 82 years of the glass ceiling, but only 9%of major film directors are female. so have a come along way since the 1990's? you that we have. the women and men should be much more indignant about the resurrection of sexist images that undermine girls and women overseas and keep it as come associate our daughters daughters in their place. and there is so much unfinished business for girls and women in the country and we should resist and indeed challenge the subject of message the full equality has been achieved in the feminist politics are passÉ and no longer necessary. well, what can we do? well, there's plenty to do but i think the first step is to name and like the sexism for what it is going to make fun of it, to ridicule at every turn because while only an important first step, humor and ridicule me maybe the most empowering weapon of all. so take a first step and if it feels good, take another. girls and women and men for that matter need to be much more indignant about sexist imagery, especially when it hides behind the sh

it started last sunday when kathryn bigelow became the first woman ever to win an oscar for directing. >> this is a moment of a lifetime... >> woodruff: two days later, women were shattering records, as the university of connecticut women's basketball team topped its own winning streak, with a run of 72 games. ( cheers and applause ) then, the courageous women who flew for the air force in world war ii-- their surviving members were honored wednesday with the congressional gold medal, 60 years after their service to the country. deanie parrish is one of them. >> thank you for this award. with humility, yet with a great sense of pride, over 65 years ago, we each served our country without any expectation or glory, and we did it with out compromising values that we were taught as we grew up. >> woodruff: the achievements of women was also being marked today at the united nations by secretary of state hillary clinton on the 15th anniversary of the world conference on women. >> i know there are those, hard to believe, who still dispute the importance of women to progress. when women are f