The Hurt Locker

The Hurt Locker is a war film that was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and filmed in Jordan. The film was named the Academy Awards 2010 Best Picture and Kathryn Bigelow was named the Best Director. Bigelow is the first woman to win the award. Mark Boal won the 2010 Oscar for writing the film's (original) screenplay. The film also won Oscars for Sound Editing (Paul N.J. Ottosson) and Sound Mixing (Ottosson and Ray Beckett) as well as the award for Best Editing (Bob Murawski and Chris Innis)

The Hurt Locker won six Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing and Best Film Editing. It was also nominated for a Best Picture (Drama) Golden Globe.http://www.goldenglobes.org/nominations/ The film won the 2010 Critics Choice Award for Best Picture.http://oscar-watch.ew.com/2010/01/16/critics-choice-awards-winners-and-losers/ On February 21, 2010 "The Hurt Locker" won six BAFTA Awards, including "Best Picture". http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2010/02/baftas-oscars-hurt-locker-avatar-kathryn-bigelow-james-cameron.htmlhttp://bafta.org/awards/film/film-awards-nominations,949,BA.html

The film's plot follows an elite United States Army division in Iraq that is responsible for Explosive Ordnance Disposal.The Hollywood Reporter: Film Review: The Hurt Locker (September 4, 2008) The film, based on the experiences of screenwriter Mark Boal, a journalist, tells the story of the Iraq war from the soldiers' perspective. The division's responsibility is to dismantle roadside bombs to protect their fellow soldiers and the Iraqi citizens in Baghdad.http://www.allmovie.com/work/the-hurt-locker-408490

Nicolas Chartier, producer of the film, was banned from attending the Oscars ceremony by the Academy of Film Arts and Sciences because of his conduct in attempting to sway voters to vote his film instead of Avatar. In reference to James Cameron's film, he emailed a group of Oscar voters asking them to vote for The Hurt Locker instead of "a $500M film" for the Best Picture award. Chartier later issued a public apology stating that it was "out of line and not in the spirit of the celebration of cinema that this acknowledgment is."http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1632611/story.jhtml

• Best Picture - Winner
• Directing, Kathryn Bigelow - Winner
• Actor in a Leading Role, Jeremy Renner - Nomination
• Writing (Original Screenplay), Mark Boal - Winner
• Cinematography, Barry Ackroyd - Nomination
• Film Editing, Bob Murawski and Chris Innis - Winner
• Music (Original Score), Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders - Nomination
• Sound Editing, Paul N.J. Ottosson - Winner
• Sound Mixing, Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett - Winner

The film tells the story of elite soldiers in the Iraq War whose job it is to disarm bombs in the middle of combat zones. James, a new sergeant heading the bomb disposal team, recklessly puts his unit in danger, behaving as if he's indifferent to the life and death situations. Bravo Company is torn apart the clash of styles as Baghdad plunges into chaos.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887912/plotsummary

• Jeremy Renner as Staff Sgt. William James
• Anthony Mackie as Sergeant J.T. Sanborn
• Brian Geraghty as Specialist Owen Eldridge
• Guy Pearce as Sergeant Matt Thompson
• Ralph Fiennes as Contractor Team Leader
• David Morse as Colonel Reed
• Evangeline Lilly as Connie James
• Christian Camargo as Colonel John Cambridge
• Christopher Sayegh as Beckham

• Best Picture, Academy Awards 2010
• Best Director, Kathryn Bigelow, Academy Awards 2010
• Best Sound Editing (Paul N.J. Ottosson)
• Best Sound Mixing (Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett)
• Best Film Editing, Bob Murawski and Chris Innis, Academy Awards
• Best (Original) Screenplay (Mark Boal), Academy Awards
• Best Picture, Critics' Choice Awards
• Best Director, Critics' Choice Awards
• Best Picture, Los Angeles Film Critics Association
• Best Picture, Boston Society of Film Critics
• Best Director (Kathryn Bigelow), Los Angeles Film Critics Association
• Best Director (Kathryn Bigelow), Boston Society of Film Critics
• Best Actor (Jeremy Renner), Boston Society of Film Critics
• Best 10 Films of 2009, American Film Institute

"'The Hurt Locker' is a great film, an intelligent film, a film shot clearly so that we know exactly who everybody is and where they are and what they're doing and why."--Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Timeshttp://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090708/REVIEWS/907089997

"You may emerge from 'The Hurt Locker' shaken, exhilarated and drained, but you will also be thinking."--A.O. Scott, New York Timeshttp://movies.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/movies/26hurt.html?ref=movies