Because at the age of 58, she was the first female director EVER to win an Oscar for her heavily male-skewing, war epic The Hurt Locker, beating out heavy weight contemporaries like James Cameron, Jason Reitman and Quentin Tarantino.
Because in the same year, Time Magazine named her one of the most influential people in the world, after three decades as one of the few women at the helm of major motion pictures (Point Break, Strange Days, K-19 The Widowmaker etc). It's also worth noting that not one of her films is a romantic comedy.
Because she's maintained a healthy, collaborative friendship with her notoriously difficult ex-husband Jim Cameron, claiming they are now such good friends they often swap scripts and early versions of each other's movies. Remarkable given they both run in the same insular, cut throat, world where Hollywood directors often compete for the same tiny pool of financing and accolades.
Because she said this, "If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies."
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