A New Hope for Science Fiction

Sunday was a big day for the nerd community. It was the day where a Best Director Oscar fell into the hands of a Science Fiction film. Gravity won a total of 7 Oscars last weekend, one of which was “Best Original Score”, but the most important one landed in Alfonso Cuarón’s lap, and the director stood up and skipped his way into history. Now, despite the fact that an obscene amount of realism and research went into the creation of this film, it is still technically a science fiction. A science fiction winning “Best Director” at the Oscars, especially over the likes of Martin Scorsese and Steve McQueen, is a giant step forward for the SciFi community.

Even George Lucas, arguably the father or modern day science fiction cinema, has never one an Oscar. Gravity walking away with an Oscar in “Best Director” now validates our genre to an entire populace of nay-sayers and non-believers. As if Nerdom wasn't practically mainstream anyways, this now makes our geek culture even more of a force to be reckoned with, and for one, I’d like to thank The Academy for that. Lets see what happens in 2015….