Not content with the pile of dough she made from "Avatar," Sigourney Weaver
, promoting the film in Brazil, whines about the epic's lost Oscar. "In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because [Academy voters] loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben Hur,' " she said. "Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw." She also opines that James Cameron lost out as best director because he "didn't have breasts."
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