Most media sources are waxing poetic about the breakthrough of having a film directed by a woman win the award.
But the real reason is pretty simple: "Hurt" cost $11 million to make, as opposed to the excess of 100 million that the favorite, Avatar, cost.
The message that the moguls of Hollywood wished to put forward was that they don't want to see any more films where they have to shell out millions and millions of dollars in production costs, regardless of the ultimate ticket sales. Their great fear is that if the Avatar trend were to continue, one of the expensive follow-up films might fail. And that would mean some very empty pockets among the Hollywood elite.
And once again, Hollywood decisions have nothing to do with truth or accurately portraying human drama. It's all about the buck.
(Not that Avatar, directed by the Christ-hating James Cameron, had anything to do with truth or human drama.)
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