The Hurt Locker

'The Hurt Locker' won the 2010 Oscar for Best Picture and its director, Kathryn Bigelow, won the 2010 Oscar for Best Director. It also won 2010 Oscars for Best Original Screenplay (Mark Boal), Best Film Editing (Bob Murawski and Chris Innis), Best Sound Editing (Paul N.J. Ottosson ), Best Sound Mixing (Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett).

About The Hurt Locker

Genre: Action | Drama | Thriller | War Release Date: Oct . 10, 2008 in Italy.

MPAA Rating: R for war violence and language Running Time: 131 mins

The Hurt Locker’ is a 2009 American war thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow. It is one of the most acclaimed films of 2009, earning awards and honors from numerous organizations, festivals and groups, and nine Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Sound, Music, Writing, and Directing. The movie scored big at the 2010 BAFTA Awards, winning Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing and Best Sound. The film follows a United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team during the Iraq War.

The story was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded with a bomb squad. It stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, and Brian Geraghty as members of a U.S. Army EOD unit in Iraq and follows their tour together as they contend with defusing bombs, the threat of insurgency, and the tension that develops among them.

The film was shot in the Middle East, specifically in Jordan, within miles of the Iraq border. It was first released theatrically in Italy in 2008. It was then released in the United States on June 26, 2009, in New York and Los Angeles. Based on the success of its limited run, the independent film received a more widespread theatrical release in the United States on July 24, 2009. The film had initially premiered at the Venice Film Festival in late 2008, then at the Toronto International Film Festival in North America, where it was picked up for distribution in the United States by Summit Entertainment.

* Jeremy Renner as Sergeant First Class William James
* Anthony Mackie as Sergeant JT Sanborn
* Brian Geraghty as Specialist Owen Eldridge
* Christian Camargo as Lieutenant Colonel John Cambridge
* Guy Pearce as Staff Sergeant Matt Thompson
* Ralph Fiennes as PMC Team Leader
* David Morse as Colonel Reed
* Evangeline Lilly as Connie James
* Christopher Sayegh as Beckham

Controversy:
'The Hurt Locker' producer Nicolas Chartier sent an email essentially asking for votes, in the process taking a veiled shot at its big-budget competitor, 'Avatar'. I just wanted to write you and say I hope you liked Hurt Locker, it began, asking that recipients who did like it tell your friends who vote for the Oscars, tell actors, directors, crew members, art directors, special effects people, if everyone tells one or two of their friends, we will win and not a $500M film, we need independent movies to win like the movies you and I do, so if you believe The Hurt Locker is the best movie of 2010, help us!

The Academy confirmed that the email violated an AMPAS campaign guideline stating that ads, mailings, websites or other forms of content that cast … negative or disparaging light on a competing achievement are not permitted. But the Academy will not comment on what, if any, penalties will be imposed until after the close of voting.

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