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The Hurt Locker is a 2009 Iraq War film written by Mark Boal and directed by Kathryn Bigelow. [1] The film premiered on September 4, 2008, at the 65th Venice International Film Festival, where it competed with The Wrestler for the Golden Lion award.
Corliss summarized, "The Hurt Locker is a near-perfect movie about men in war, men at work. Through sturdy imagery and violent action, it says that even Hell needs heroes." [57] A. O. Scott of The New York Times called The Hurt Locker the best American feature film yet made about the war in Iraq:
The Hurt Locker won six awards, including Best Picture. [11] [12] Other winners were Avatar with three awards, Crazy Heart, Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire, and Up with two, and The Blind Side, The Cove, Inglourious Basterds, Logorama, Music by Prudence, The New Tenants, The Secret in Their Eyes, Star Trek, and The Young ...
Over her career she has received several awards including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and five prizes from the Venice Film Festival as well as nominations for two Golden Globe Awards. Bigelow won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director for the war drama The Hurt Locker (2009).
Oscar is sure to help sales of "The Hurt Locker," welcome news for a picture that has only grossed $7 million domestically. Sales of "The Hurt Locker" DVDs spiked on Amazon.com following the low ...
In 2010, she won the award for Best Director and The Hurt Locker won Best Picture at the 63rd British Academy Film Awards. [22] Bigelow at the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010. She became the first woman to receive an Academy Award for Best Director for The Hurt Locker.
The 44th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 2010, honored the best in film for 2009. [1] [2] [3] Winners. ... The Hurt Locker 2.
Runner-up: Barry Ackroyd – The Hurt Locker; Best Production Design: Philip Ivey – District 9; Runner-up: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg – Avatar; Best Music Score: T Bone Burnett and Stephen Bruton – Crazy Heart; Runner-up: Alexandre Desplat – Fantastic Mr. Fox; Best Foreign-Language Film: Summer Hours (L'heure d'été) • France