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Sigourney Weaver's Sour Grapes

When a famous actress delivers an unusually candid quote to a foreign news site you've never heard of, it's only fair to think that something may be lost in translation. At least, that's the only explanation I can think of for this: "Jim [Cameron] didn't have breasts, and I think that was the reason [he lost the Best Director Oscar]," Sigourney Weaver supposedly told Folha Online, a Brazilian news site. "He should have taken home that Oscar...In the past, Avatar would have won because they loved to hand out awards to big productions, like Ben-Hur. Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw." [HuffPo]