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Kathryn Bigelow, director of The Hurt Locker at the 82nd Academy Awards


[show]Awards & nominations
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Total number of wins and nominations
Totals 97 161
References
The Hurt Locker is a 2008 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. It was released in Italy by Warner Bros. Pictures on October 10, 2008.[2] Following a showing at the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival, Summit Entertainment picked the film up for distribution in the United States.[3] The Hurt Locker was released in the United States on June 26, 2009, with a limited release at four theaters in Los Angeles and New York City.[4] The film grossed over $145,000 on its opening weekend, averaging around $36,000 per theater. The following weekend, beginning July 3, the film grossed over $131,000 at nine theaters.[5] It held the highest per-screen average[Note 1] of any movie playing theatrically in the United States for the first two weeks of its release, gradually moving into the top 20 chart.[7][8] Summit Entertainment then released The Hurt Locker to more screens. The film grossed $49.2 million worldwide, and was a success against its budget of $15 million.[7]
The Hurt Locker has earned various awards and nominations, with the nominations in categories ranging from recognition of the screenplay to its direction and editing to the cast's acting performance. Kathryn Bigelow dominated the Best Director category at the critics' circles. The 67th Golden Globe Awards ceremony saw The Hurt Locker receive three nominations for Best Motion Picture Drama, Director and Screenplay, but it failed to win any. The film garnered nine nominations at the 82nd Academy Awards; the ceremony saw the film come away with six awards, including Best Motion Picture, Director and Original Screenplay. Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director and she also became only the fourth woman to be nominated in the category in the history of the awards.[9]
The Hurt Locker received two nominations at the 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards, for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor for Jeremy Renner and Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. The film won the Best Theatrical Motion Picture and Outstanding Directorial Achievement at the 21st Producers Guild of America Awards and the 62nd Directors Guild of America Awards respectively. The 35th LA Film Critics Association Awards, 75th NY Film Critics Circle Awards and the 44th National Society of Film Critics Association Awards saw the film win awards for Best Picture and Director. Both the American Film Institute and the Associated Press included The Hurt Locker in their Top Ten Films of 2009 lists.[10][11] The Associated Press also placed the film at number six on their Top Ten Films of the Decade list.[12]


Contents  [hide]
1 Awards and nominations
2 Notes
3 References
4 External links

Awards and nominations[edit]

Award
Date of ceremony
Category
Recipients and nominees
Result
Academy Award[13][14] March 7, 2010 Best Picture Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Greg Shapiro, Nicolas Chartier Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal Won
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Nominated
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Nominated
Best Editing Chris Innis
Bob Murawski Won
Best Original Score Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders Nominated
Best Sound Mixing Paul N. J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett Won
Best Sound Editing Paul N. J. Ottosson Won
African-American Film Critics Association[15] December 14, 2009 Best Supporting Actor Anthony Mackie Won
Alliance of Women Film Journalists[16] December 15, 2009 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Woman Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Ensemble The Hurt Locker Won
American Cinema Editors[17] February 14, 2010 Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic Chris Innis
 Bob Murawski Won
American Society of Cinematographers[18] February 27, 2010 Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases Barry Ackroyd Nominated
Art Directors Guild[19] February 13, 2010 Excellence in Production Design for a Contemporary Film Karl Juliusson Won
Austin Film Critics Association[20] December 15, 2009 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Won
Black Reel Awards[21] February 13, 2010 Best Supporting Actor Anthony Mackie Won
Boston Society of Film Critics[22] December 13, 2009 Best Film The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Won
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Won
Best Film Editing Chris Innis
 Bob Murawski Won
British Academy Film Awards[23] February 21, 2010 Best Film Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Greg Shapiro, Nicolas Chartier Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal Won
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Nominated
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Won
Best Editing Chris Innis
 Bob Murawski Won
Best Sound Ray Beckett, Paul N. J. Ottosson, Craig Stauffer Won
Best Special Visual Effects Richard Stutsman Nominated
British Independent Film Awards [24][25] December 6, 2010 Best Foreign Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
British Society of Cinematographers[26] July 18, 2010 Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Won
Broadcast Film Critics[27] January 15, 2010 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal Nominated
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Nominated
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Nominated
Best Editing Chris Innis
 Bob Murawski Nominated
Best Sound Ray Beckett, Paul Ottosson Nominated
Best Action Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association[28] December 21, 2009 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal Won
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Won
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Won
Cinema Audio Society Awards[29] February 27, 2010 Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures Paul N.J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett Won
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association[30] December 16, 2009 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Nominated
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Nominated
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Nominated
Dallas International Film Festival[31] March 26, 2009 Dallas Star Award Kathryn Bigelow Won
Denver Film Critics Society[32] January 24, 2010 Best Film The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal Nominated
Best Acting Ensemble The Hurt Locker Nominated
Detroit Film Critics Society[33] December 11, 2009 Best Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Nominated
Directors Guild of America Awards[34] January 30, 2010 Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Kathryn Bigelow Won
Empire Awards[35] March 28, 2010 Best Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Nominated
Best Thriller The Hurt Locker Nominated
Evening Standard British Film Awards[36] 8 February 2010 Best Technical Achievement Barry Ackroyd Won
Golden Frog[37] November 29, 2008 Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Nominated
Golden Globe Awards[38][39] January 17, 2010 Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Nominated
Best Drama Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Screenplay Mark Boal Nominated
Gotham Independent Film Awards[40][41] November 30, 2009 Best Feature Film The Hurt Locker Won
Best Ensemble Performance The Hurt Locker Won
Breakthrough Performance Jeremy Renner Nominated
Hollywood Film Festival[42] October 26, 2009 Actor of the Year Jeremy Renner Won
Director of the Year Kathryn Bigelow Won
Hollywood Post Alliance Awards[43][44][45] November 12, 2010 Outstanding Editing in a Feature Film Chris Innis
 Bob Murawski Nominated
Houston Film Critics Society [46] December 19, 2009 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Won
Independent Spirit Awards[47] February 21, 2009 Best Male Lead Jeremy Renner Nominated
Best Supporting Male Anthony Mackie Nominated
International Cinephile Society Award[48] February 17, 2010 Best Editing Chris Innis
 Bob Murawski Won
Irish Film and Television Awards[49] February 20, 2010 Best International Film The Hurt Locker Won
Kansas City Film Critics Circle[50] January 3, 2010 Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Las Vegas Film Critics Society [51] December 17, 2009 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Won
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Won
Best Film Editing Chris Innis
 Bob Murawski Won
London Film Critics' Circle[52] February 18, 2010 Film of the Year The Hurt Locker Nominated
Director of the Year Kathryn Bigelow Won
Los Angeles Film Critics Association[53] December 14, 2009 Best Film The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Motion Picture Sound Editors[54] February 20, 2010 Best Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
Nantucket Film Festival[55] June 21, 2009 Best Screenplay Mark Boal Won
National Board of Review[56] January 12, 2010 Best Male Breakthrough Performance Jeremy Renner Won
National Society of Film Critics[57] January 3, 2010 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Won
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Nominated
NAACP Image Awards[58] February 26, 2010 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Anthony Mackie Nominated
New York Film Critics[59] December 14, 2009 Best Film The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
New York Online Film Critics [60] December 13, 2009 Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
North Texas Film Critics Association[61] January 11, 2010 Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Oklahoma Film Critics Circle[62] December 23, 2009 Best Film The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Online Film Critics[63] January 5, 2010 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal Nominated
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Won
Best Supporting Actor Anthony Mackie Nominated
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Nominated
Best Editing Chris Innis
 Bob Murawski Won
Palm Springs International Film Festival[64] January 7, 2010 Male Breakthrough Performance Jeremy Renner Won
Producers Guild of America Awards[65] January 24, 2010 Best Theatrical Motion Picture Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Greg Shapiro, Nicolas Chartier Won
San Francisco Film Critics Circle[66] December 14, 2009 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Santa Barbara International Film Festival[67] February 4, 2010 Outstanding Director of the Year Kathryn Bigelow Won
Satellite Awards[68][69] December 20, 2009 Best Drama Film The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Won
Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal Nominated
Best Editing Chris Innis
 Bob Murawski Won
Saturn Awards[70][71] June 24, 2010 Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards[72][73] January 23, 2010 Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Jeremy Renner Nominated
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture The Hurt Locker Nominated
Seattle International Film Festival[74] June 14, 2009 Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
ShoWest Triumph Award[75] April 2, 2010 Outstanding Direction Kathryn Bigelow Won
Southeastern Film Critics[76] December 14, 2009 Best Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal Nominated
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Nominated
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association[77] December 21, 2009 Best Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Screenplay Mark Boal Nominated
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Nominated
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Nominated
Toronto Film Critics Association[78][79] December 16, 2009 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Utah Film Critics Association[80] December 18, 2009 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Nominated
Vancouver Film Critics Circle[81][82] January 13, 2010 Best Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Screenplay Mark Boal Nominated
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Nominated
Venice Film Festival [83][84] August 27, 2008 Golden Lion The Hurt Locker Nominated
Gucci Group Award Mark Boal Won
SIGNIS Award The Hurt Locker Won
La Navicella – Venezia Cinema Award The Hurt Locker Won
Human Rights Film Network Award The Hurt Locker Won
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics[85] December 7, 2009 Best Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal Nominated
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Nominated
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Anthony Mackie Nominated
Best Breakthrough Performance Jeremy Renner Nominated
Best Ensemble The Hurt Locker Won
Writers Guild of America[86] February 20, 2010 Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal Won
Notes[edit]
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47.Jump up ^ Erin, Maxwell; Jones, Michael (December 2, 2008). "Spirit Award nominees announced". Variety. Reed Business Information. Retrieved May 3, 2010.
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50.Jump up ^ "Kansas City Film Critics Circle". Kansas City Film Critics Circle. Retrieved May 5, 2010.
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53.Jump up ^ "35th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards". Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Retrieved May 5, 2010.
54.Jump up ^ "2010 Golden Reel Award Nominees: Feature Films". Motion Picture Sound Editors. Retrieved March 28, 2010.[dead link]
55.Jump up ^ Swart, Sharon (June 21, 2009). "'Cove' Sails at Nantucket". Variety. Reed Business Information. Retrieved May 1, 2010.
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External links[edit]
Awards for The Hurt Locker at the Internet Movie Database
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A light-skinned woman with blonde hair smiles while wearing a silver dress, with other people in the background.
Kathryn Bigelow, director of The Hurt Locker at the 82nd Academy Awards


[show]Awards & nominations
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Total number of wins and nominations
Totals 97 161
References
The Hurt Locker is a 2008 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. It was released in Italy by Warner Bros. Pictures on October 10, 2008.[2] Following a showing at the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival, Summit Entertainment picked the film up for distribution in the United States.[3] The Hurt Locker was released in the United States on June 26, 2009, with a limited release at four theaters in Los Angeles and New York City.[4] The film grossed over $145,000 on its opening weekend, averaging around $36,000 per theater. The following weekend, beginning July 3, the film grossed over $131,000 at nine theaters.[5] It held the highest per-screen average[Note 1] of any movie playing theatrically in the United States for the first two weeks of its release, gradually moving into the top 20 chart.[7][8] Summit Entertainment then released The Hurt Locker to more screens. The film grossed $49.2 million worldwide, and was a success against its budget of $15 million.[7]
The Hurt Locker has earned various awards and nominations, with the nominations in categories ranging from recognition of the screenplay to its direction and editing to the cast's acting performance. Kathryn Bigelow dominated the Best Director category at the critics' circles. The 67th Golden Globe Awards ceremony saw The Hurt Locker receive three nominations for Best Motion Picture Drama, Director and Screenplay, but it failed to win any. The film garnered nine nominations at the 82nd Academy Awards; the ceremony saw the film come away with six awards, including Best Motion Picture, Director and Original Screenplay. Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director and she also became only the fourth woman to be nominated in the category in the history of the awards.[9]
The Hurt Locker received two nominations at the 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards, for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor for Jeremy Renner and Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. The film won the Best Theatrical Motion Picture and Outstanding Directorial Achievement at the 21st Producers Guild of America Awards and the 62nd Directors Guild of America Awards respectively. The 35th LA Film Critics Association Awards, 75th NY Film Critics Circle Awards and the 44th National Society of Film Critics Association Awards saw the film win awards for Best Picture and Director. Both the American Film Institute and the Associated Press included The Hurt Locker in their Top Ten Films of 2009 lists.[10][11] The Associated Press also placed the film at number six on their Top Ten Films of the Decade list.[12]


Contents  [hide]
1 Awards and nominations
2 Notes
3 References
4 External links

Awards and nominations[edit]

Award
Date of ceremony
Category
Recipients and nominees
Result
Academy Award[13][14] March 7, 2010 Best Picture Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Greg Shapiro, Nicolas Chartier Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal Won
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Nominated
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Nominated
Best Editing Chris Innis
Bob Murawski Won
Best Original Score Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders Nominated
Best Sound Mixing Paul N. J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett Won
Best Sound Editing Paul N. J. Ottosson Won
African-American Film Critics Association[15] December 14, 2009 Best Supporting Actor Anthony Mackie Won
Alliance of Women Film Journalists[16] December 15, 2009 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Woman Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Ensemble The Hurt Locker Won
American Cinema Editors[17] February 14, 2010 Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic Chris Innis
 Bob Murawski Won
American Society of Cinematographers[18] February 27, 2010 Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases Barry Ackroyd Nominated
Art Directors Guild[19] February 13, 2010 Excellence in Production Design for a Contemporary Film Karl Juliusson Won
Austin Film Critics Association[20] December 15, 2009 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Won
Black Reel Awards[21] February 13, 2010 Best Supporting Actor Anthony Mackie Won
Boston Society of Film Critics[22] December 13, 2009 Best Film The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Won
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Won
Best Film Editing Chris Innis
 Bob Murawski Won
British Academy Film Awards[23] February 21, 2010 Best Film Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Greg Shapiro, Nicolas Chartier Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal Won
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Nominated
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Won
Best Editing Chris Innis
 Bob Murawski Won
Best Sound Ray Beckett, Paul N. J. Ottosson, Craig Stauffer Won
Best Special Visual Effects Richard Stutsman Nominated
British Independent Film Awards [24][25] December 6, 2010 Best Foreign Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
British Society of Cinematographers[26] July 18, 2010 Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Won
Broadcast Film Critics[27] January 15, 2010 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal Nominated
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Nominated
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Nominated
Best Editing Chris Innis
 Bob Murawski Nominated
Best Sound Ray Beckett, Paul Ottosson Nominated
Best Action Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association[28] December 21, 2009 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal Won
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Won
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Won
Cinema Audio Society Awards[29] February 27, 2010 Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures Paul N.J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett Won
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association[30] December 16, 2009 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Nominated
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Nominated
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Nominated
Dallas International Film Festival[31] March 26, 2009 Dallas Star Award Kathryn Bigelow Won
Denver Film Critics Society[32] January 24, 2010 Best Film The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal Nominated
Best Acting Ensemble The Hurt Locker Nominated
Detroit Film Critics Society[33] December 11, 2009 Best Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Nominated
Directors Guild of America Awards[34] January 30, 2010 Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Kathryn Bigelow Won
Empire Awards[35] March 28, 2010 Best Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Nominated
Best Thriller The Hurt Locker Nominated
Evening Standard British Film Awards[36] 8 February 2010 Best Technical Achievement Barry Ackroyd Won
Golden Frog[37] November 29, 2008 Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Nominated
Golden Globe Awards[38][39] January 17, 2010 Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Nominated
Best Drama Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Screenplay Mark Boal Nominated
Gotham Independent Film Awards[40][41] November 30, 2009 Best Feature Film The Hurt Locker Won
Best Ensemble Performance The Hurt Locker Won
Breakthrough Performance Jeremy Renner Nominated
Hollywood Film Festival[42] October 26, 2009 Actor of the Year Jeremy Renner Won
Director of the Year Kathryn Bigelow Won
Hollywood Post Alliance Awards[43][44][45] November 12, 2010 Outstanding Editing in a Feature Film Chris Innis
 Bob Murawski Nominated
Houston Film Critics Society [46] December 19, 2009 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Won
Independent Spirit Awards[47] February 21, 2009 Best Male Lead Jeremy Renner Nominated
Best Supporting Male Anthony Mackie Nominated
International Cinephile Society Award[48] February 17, 2010 Best Editing Chris Innis
 Bob Murawski Won
Irish Film and Television Awards[49] February 20, 2010 Best International Film The Hurt Locker Won
Kansas City Film Critics Circle[50] January 3, 2010 Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Las Vegas Film Critics Society [51] December 17, 2009 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Won
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Won
Best Film Editing Chris Innis
 Bob Murawski Won
London Film Critics' Circle[52] February 18, 2010 Film of the Year The Hurt Locker Nominated
Director of the Year Kathryn Bigelow Won
Los Angeles Film Critics Association[53] December 14, 2009 Best Film The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Motion Picture Sound Editors[54] February 20, 2010 Best Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
Nantucket Film Festival[55] June 21, 2009 Best Screenplay Mark Boal Won
National Board of Review[56] January 12, 2010 Best Male Breakthrough Performance Jeremy Renner Won
National Society of Film Critics[57] January 3, 2010 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Won
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Nominated
NAACP Image Awards[58] February 26, 2010 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Anthony Mackie Nominated
New York Film Critics[59] December 14, 2009 Best Film The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
New York Online Film Critics [60] December 13, 2009 Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
North Texas Film Critics Association[61] January 11, 2010 Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Oklahoma Film Critics Circle[62] December 23, 2009 Best Film The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Online Film Critics[63] January 5, 2010 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal Nominated
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Won
Best Supporting Actor Anthony Mackie Nominated
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Nominated
Best Editing Chris Innis
 Bob Murawski Won
Palm Springs International Film Festival[64] January 7, 2010 Male Breakthrough Performance Jeremy Renner Won
Producers Guild of America Awards[65] January 24, 2010 Best Theatrical Motion Picture Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Greg Shapiro, Nicolas Chartier Won
San Francisco Film Critics Circle[66] December 14, 2009 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Santa Barbara International Film Festival[67] February 4, 2010 Outstanding Director of the Year Kathryn Bigelow Won
Satellite Awards[68][69] December 20, 2009 Best Drama Film The Hurt Locker Won
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Won
Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal Nominated
Best Editing Chris Innis
 Bob Murawski Won
Saturn Awards[70][71] June 24, 2010 Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards[72][73] January 23, 2010 Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Jeremy Renner Nominated
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture The Hurt Locker Nominated
Seattle International Film Festival[74] June 14, 2009 Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
ShoWest Triumph Award[75] April 2, 2010 Outstanding Direction Kathryn Bigelow Won
Southeastern Film Critics[76] December 14, 2009 Best Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal Nominated
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Nominated
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association[77] December 21, 2009 Best Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Screenplay Mark Boal Nominated
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Nominated
Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Nominated
Toronto Film Critics Association[78][79] December 16, 2009 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Utah Film Critics Association[80] December 18, 2009 Best Picture The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Nominated
Vancouver Film Critics Circle[81][82] January 13, 2010 Best Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Screenplay Mark Boal Nominated
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Nominated
Venice Film Festival [83][84] August 27, 2008 Golden Lion The Hurt Locker Nominated
Gucci Group Award Mark Boal Won
SIGNIS Award The Hurt Locker Won
La Navicella – Venezia Cinema Award The Hurt Locker Won
Human Rights Film Network Award The Hurt Locker Won
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics[85] December 7, 2009 Best Film The Hurt Locker Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal Nominated
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Won
Best Actor Jeremy Renner Nominated
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Anthony Mackie Nominated
Best Breakthrough Performance Jeremy Renner Nominated
Best Ensemble The Hurt Locker Won
Writers Guild of America[86] February 20, 2010 Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal Won
Notes[edit]
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55.Jump up ^ Swart, Sharon (June 21, 2009). "'Cove' Sails at Nantucket". Variety. Reed Business Information. Retrieved May 1, 2010.
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External links[edit]
Awards for The Hurt Locker at the Internet Movie Database
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The Hurt Locker
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"Hurt Locker" redirects here. For the song by American rapper Xzibit, see Hurt Locker (song). For the Glee episode, see The Hurt Locker, Part One and The Hurt Locker, Part Two.

The Hurt Locker
From above a flat and dry desert floor, a person in a green military uniform with heavy padding holds red wires attached to seven pill-shaped bomb canisters scattered around him. At the top of the poster are three critics' favorable opinions: "A near-perfect movie", "A full-tilt action picture", and "Ferociously suspenseful". Below the quotes is the title "THE HURT LOCKER" and the tagline, "You don't have to be a hero to do this job. But it helps."
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Kathryn Bigelow
Produced by
Kathryn Bigelow
Mark Boal
Nicolas Chartier
 Greg Shapiro
Written by
Mark Boal
Starring
Jeremy Renner
Anthony Mackie
Brian Geraghty
Christian Camargo
Evangeline Lilly
Ralph Fiennes
David Morse
Guy Pearce
Music by
Marco Beltrami
 Buck Sanders
Cinematography
Barry Ackroyd
Edited by
Chris Innis
Bob Murawski

Production
 company

Voltage Pictures
Grosvenor Park Media
 Film Capital Europe Funds
 First Light Production
 Kingsgate Films
Summit Entertainment

Distributed by
Warner Bros. (Italy)
Summit Entertainment/
Universal Studios (USA)
Lionsgate/
Optimum Releasing (UK)

Release dates

September 4, 2008 (Venice)
June 26, 2009 (United States)


Running time
 131 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$15 million[1]
Box office
$49.2 million[1]
The Hurt Locker is a 2008 American war film about a three-man Explosive Ordnance Disposal (bomb disposal) team during the Iraq War. The film was produced and directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a U.S. Army EOD team in Iraq. It stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, and Brian Geraghty.
The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in Italy during 2008. After being shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, it was picked up for distribution in the United States by Summit Entertainment. In May 2009, it was the Closing Night selection for Maryland Film Festival. The film was released in the United States on June 26, 2009 but received a more widespread theatrical release on July 24, 2009.
Since the film was not released in the United States until 2009, it was eligible for the 82nd Academy Awards, where it was nominated for nine Academy Awards. Although the film had not covered its budget by the time of the ceremony,[2] it won six Oscars, including Best Director for Bigelow (the first woman to win this award), Best Original Screenplay for Boal, and Best Picture. The Hurt Locker earned numerous awards and honors from critics' organizations, festivals and groups, including six BAFTA Awards. However, it received criticism by some in the military for various inaccuracies. The Hurt Locker is identified as the "lowest-grossing movie to ever win Best Picture" in Academy Award, as of 2010.[3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Writing
3.2 Casting
3.3 Filming
3.4 Cinematography
3.5 Editing
4 Reception 4.1 Critical response
4.2 Response among veterans
5 Lawsuits 5.1 Sarver lawsuit
5.2 Copyright infringement lawsuit
6 Release 6.1 Festival screenings
6.2 Theatrical run
6.3 Distribution: Independent film print shortage
6.4 Home media
7 Awards and accolades
8 See also
9 References
10 Bibliography
11 Further reading
12 External links

§Plot[edit]
The Hurt Locker opens with a quotation from War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a best-selling 2002 book by Chris Hedges, a New York Times war correspondent and journalist: "The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug."[4][5][6]
Sergeant First Class William James (Jeremy Renner), a battle-tested veteran, arrives as a new team leader of a U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit in the Iraq War,[7][8] replacing Staff Sergeant Matthew Thompson (Guy Pearce), who was killed by a radio-controlled 155mm improvised explosive device (IED) in Baghdad. His team includes Sergeant J.T. Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Specialist Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty).
James' maverick methods and attitude lead Sanborn and Eldridge to consider him reckless, and tensions mount. When they are assigned to destroy some explosives in a remote desert area, James returns to the detonation site to pick up his gloves. Sanborn openly contemplates killing James by "accidentally" triggering the explosion, making Eldridge very uncomfortable, but Sanborn does nothing.
Returning to Camp Victory in their Humvee, the team encounters five armed men in traditional Arab garb standing near the men's Ford Excursion, which has a flat tire. After a tense encounter, the men reveal themselves to be private military contractors and British mercenaries. They have captured two prisoners featured on the most-wanted Iraqi playing cards. The entire group suddenly comes under fire, and when the prisoners attempt to escape in the confusion, the leader of the mercenaries (Ralph Fiennes) remembers the bounty for them is "dead or alive" and shoots them. Enemy snipers kill three of the mercenaries, including the leader. Sanborn and James borrow a Barrett .50 cal to dispatch three attackers, while Eldridge kills a fourth.
During a raid on a warehouse, James discovers the body of a young boy, which has been surgically implanted with an unexploded bomb. James believes it to be "Beckham" (Christopher Sayegh), an Iraqi youth he had previously befriended. During evacuation, Lieutenant Colonel John Cambridge (Christian Camargo), the camp's psychiatrist and a friend of Eldridge's, is killed in an explosion; Eldridge blames himself for the Colonel's death. Later, James leaves the military compound seeking revenge for Beckham and breaks into the house of an Iraqi professor, but his search reveals nothing and he leaves.
Called to a petrol tanker detonation, James decides on his own to hunt for the insurgents responsible, guessing they are still in the immediate area. Sanborn protests, but when James heads out, he and Eldridge reluctantly follow. After they split up, insurgents capture Eldridge. James and Sanborn rescue him, but accidentally shoot him in the leg. The following morning, James is approached by Beckham, who James believed was dead. The young boy tries to play soccer with James and sell him more DVDs, but the soldier walks by without saying a word. Before being airlifted for surgery elsewhere, Eldridge angrily blames James for his injury.
James and Sanborn's unit is called to another mission in their last two days of their rotation. An innocent Iraqi civilian man has had a bomb vest strapped to his chest. James tries to cut off the locks to remove the vest, but there are too many to undo in the time available before the bomb will detonate. He has to abandon the man, who is killed when the bomb explodes. Sanborn is left distraught by the man's death. He confesses to James that he can no longer cope with the pressure, and he wants to return home and have a son.
After Bravo Company's rotation ends, James returns home to his ex wife, Connie (Evangeline Lilly) and their infant son who both still live with him in his house. However, he is bored and disconnected from routine civilian life, with its ordinary tasks of shopping at the supermarket and family dinners. One night, James confesses to his son that there is only one thing that he knows he loves. Shortly thereafter, he starts another tour of duty serving with Delta Company, U.S. Army EOD unit as they are starting their 365-day rotation.
§Cast[edit]
Jeremy Renner as Sergeant First Class William James
Anthony Mackie as Sergeant J. T. Sanborn
Brian Geraghty as Specialist Owen Eldridge
Guy Pearce as Staff Sergeant Matthew Thompson
Christian Camargo as Lieutenant Colonel John Cambridge
David Morse as Colonel Reed
Ralph Fiennes as the leader of a Private Military Company unit
Evangeline Lilly as Connie James
Christopher Sayegh as Beckham
§Production[edit]
§Writing[edit]
The Hurt Locker is based on accounts of Mark Boal, a freelance journalist who was embedded with an American bomb squad in the war in Iraq for two weeks in 2004.[9] The director Kathryn Bigelow was familiar with Boal's work before his experiences, having adapted one of his Playboy articles as the short-lived television series The Inside in 2002. When Boal was embedded with the squad, he accompanied its members 10 to 15 times a day to watch their tasks, and kept in touch with Bigelow via email about his experiences.[10] Boal used his experiences as the basis of a fictional drama based on real events. He said of the film's goal, "The idea is that it's the first movie about the Iraq War that purports to show the experience of the soldiers. We wanted to show the kinds of things that soldiers go through that you can't see on CNN, and I don't mean that in a censorship-conspiracy way. I just mean the news doesn't actually put photographers in with units that are this elite."[11] Bigelow was fascinated with exploring "the psychology behind the type of soldier who volunteers for this particular conflict and then, because of his or her aptitude, is chosen and given the opportunity to go into bomb disarmament and goes toward what everybody else is running from."[12]
While working with Boal in 2005 on the script, originally titled The Something Jacket, Bigelow began to do some preliminary, rough storyboards to get an idea of the specific location needed. Bomb disarmament protocol requires a containment area. She wanted to make the film as authentic as possible and "put the audience into the Humvee, into a boots-on-the-ground experience."[12]
§Casting[edit]





Jeremy Renner



Anthony Mackie



Brian Geraghty

For the main characters, Bigelow made a point of casting relatively unknown actors: "it underscored the tension because with the lack of familiarity also comes a sense of unpredictability."[12] Renner's character, Sergeant First Class William James, is a composite character, with qualities based on individuals whom screenwriter Boal knew when embedded with the bomb squad.[10] Bigelow cast Renner based on his work in Dahmer, a film about Jeffrey Dahmer, the notorious serial killer whose victims were boys.[13] To prepare for the film, Renner spent a week living and training at Fort Irwin, a U.S. military reservation in the Mojave Desert in California. He was taught to use C4 explosives, learned how to render safe improvised explosive devices, and how to wear a bomb suit.[13]
Mackie plays Sergeant J.T. Sanborn. Describing the experience of filming in Jordan in the summer, he said, "It was so desperately hot, and we were so easily agitated. But that movie was like doing a play. We really looked out for each other, and it was a great experience. It made me believe in film."[14]
Several hundred thousand refugees of Iraq live in Jordan. Bigelow cast refugees who had theatrical backgrounds, such as Suhail Aldabbach. He plays the innocent man used as a suicide bomber at the film's end.[10]
§Filming[edit]
The film was shot in Jordan, within miles of the Iraqi border, to achieve Bigelow's goal of authenticity. Iraqi refugees were used for extras and the cast worked in the unmistakable heat of the Middle East. The filmmakers had scouted for locations in Morocco, but director Kathryn Bigelow felt its cities did not resemble Baghdad. In addition, she wanted to get as close to the war zone as possible. Some of the locations were less than three miles from the Iraq border.[15] She had wanted to shoot in Iraq, but the production security team could not guarantee their safety from snipers.[12]
Principal photography began in July 2007 in Jordan and Kuwait. Temperatures averaged 120 °F (49 °C) over the 44 days of shooting.[11][12][13] Often four or more camera crews filmed simultaneously, which resulted in nearly 200 hours of footage.[15][16] The producer Greg Shapiro spoke about security concerns of filming in Jordan, "It was interesting telling people we were going to make the movie in Jordan because the first question everybody asked was about the security situation here."
Her choice to film in the Kingdom met some resistance. In discussion, Bigelow found that her cast and crew shared stereotypes of the region from American culture. “Sadly people in America and Los Angeles have these perceptions,” she said. “But once you get off the plane you realise it's like Manhattan without the trees,” she continued. As Iraq dominates discourse in America and across the world, Bigelow believes filmmakers will continue to explore the conflict, making Jordan the natural place to film.[17]
According to producer Tony Mark, the blood, sweat and heat captured on-camera in the production was mirrored behind the scenes.

"It's a tough, tough movie about a tough, tough subject", Mark said in an interview, "There was a palpable tension throughout on the set. It was just like the onscreen story of three guys who fight with each other, but when the time comes to do the work, they come together to get the job done."[18]
Renner remembered, "I got food bugs. Then I got food poisoning: lost 15 lbs in three days".[13] In addition to the burden of the heat, the bomb suit he had to wear all day weighed 80–100 lb (36–45 kg).[19] In a scene in which his character carries a dead Iraqi boy, Renner fell down some stairs and twisted his ankle, which delayed filming because he could not walk. At that point, "people wanted to quit. All the departments were struggling to get their job done, none of them were communicating".[13] A week later, filming resumed.[13]
The producer Tony Mark recalled the armorer David Fencl's finishing a 12-hour day. He found he had to stay up all night to make proper ammunition for a sniper rifle, as the supplies did not clear Jordanian customs in time for the scheduled shoot.[18] Due to import restrictions on military props, the film's special effects artist Richard Stutsman used Chinese fireworks for gunpowder. One day, he was assembling a prop, and the heat and friction caused the fireworks to blow up in his face. Two days later, he returned to work.[13] The film shoot had few of the normal Hollywood perks; nobody on the set got an air-conditioned trailer or a private bathroom.[18] Renner said that great care was taken to ensure the film's authenticity.[20] According to Renner, shooting the film in the Middle East contributed to this. "There were two-by-fours with nails being dropped from two-story buildings that hit me in the helmet, and they were throwing rocks.... We got shot at a few times while we were filming", Renner said. "When you see it, you're gonna feel like you've been in war."[21]

"You can't fake that amount of heat", Mackie says, adding, "When you are on set and all of the extras are Iraqi refugees, it really informs the movie that you're making. When you start hearing the stories from a true perspective ... of people who were actually there, it gives you a clear viewpoint of where you are as an artist and the story you would like to tell. It was a great experience to be there."[22]
§Cinematography[edit]
For the film, Bigelow sought to immerse audiences "into something that was raw, immediate and visceral". Impressed with cinematographer Barry Ackroyd's work on United 93 and The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Bigelow invited him to work on her film. While the film was independently produced and filmed on a low budget, Bigelow used four Super 16 mm cameras to capture multiple perspectives, saying,

"That's how we experience reality, by looking at the microcosm and the macrocosm simultaneously. The eye sees differently than the lens, but with multiple focal lengths and a muscular editorial style, the lens can give you that microcosm/macrocosm perspective, and that contributes to the feeling of total immersion."[23]
In staging the film's action sequences, Bigelow did not want to lose a sense of the geography and used multiple cameras to allow her to "look at any particular set piece from every possible perspective."[12]
§Editing[edit]
The Hurt Locker was edited by Chris Innis and Bob Murawski.[24][25] The two editors worked with almost 200 hours of footage from the multiple hand-held cameras in use during the shoot.[25] Adding to the challenge, Boal's screenplay had a non-traditional, asymmetrical, episodic structure. There was no traditional "villain", and tension was derived from the characters' internal conflicts and the suspense from the explosives and snipers.[25]

"This movie is kind of like a horror film where you're unable to see the killer," says Innis. "You know a bomb could go off at any minute, but you never know just when it's going to happen, so the ideas of [Alfred] Hitchcock—about making your audience anxious—were influential for us when we did the editing."[26]
The raw footage was described as a "hodge-podge of disconnected, nausea-inducing motion that was constantly crossing the 180-degree line".[25]
Innis spent the first eight weeks editing the film on location in Jordan, before returning to Los Angeles, where she was joined by Murawski. The process took over eight months to complete.[24][27] The goal was to edit a brutally realistic portrayal of the realities of war, using minimal special effects or technical enhancement.[24][25] Innis stated that they "really wanted the film to retain that 'newsreel' documentary quality... Too many stage-y effects would have been distracting. The editing in this film was all about restraint".[24]
Editing on location led to additional complications in post-production. The production was unwilling to risk sending undeveloped film through high-security airports where the cans could be opened, X-rayed, or damaged. Accordingly, film was hand-carried on a flight by a production assistant from Amman to London. After the Super 16mm film was transferred to DVcam at a lab in London, the video dailies were transported by plane back to the Middle East to be imported into the editing system. The whole journey would take anywhere from three days to a week and was described by Innis as the "modern-day equivalent of shipping via donkey cart".[25] The low production budget and the lack of a developed film infrastructure in the area hampered the process, according to Innis. "We were working with grainy Super 16mm film, editing in standard definition. We tried doing FTP downloads, but at the time the facilities in Jordan simply couldn't handle it."[24][25] The producer Tony Mark later negotiated the use of a local radio station late at night to receive low-grade QuickTime clips over the Internet so the crew would not be shooting blindly.[25]
Innis stresses the importance of sound to the editing process. "So much of the rhythms of our editing were based on sonic elements—the breathing of the soldiers, the sounds of explosions, or even the emptiness of sound just prior to a bomb going off." The two editors worked with production tracks recorded by Ray Beckett, the production sound mixer. Innis credits Beckett's high-quality location sound as the reason they did not need to do much in the way of soundscaping in post-production.[24]
§Reception[edit]


§Critical response[edit]
 The Hurt Locker was met with nearly universal acclaim, with Renner's performance receiving praise from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a "certified fresh" score of 98% based on 225 reviews, with a weighted mean score of 8.4 out of 10.[28] It was the second highest-rated film in 2009 at Rotten Tomatoes, behind Pixar's Up with 98%. Rotten Tomatoes wrote of the critics' consensus, "A well-acted, intensely shot, action filled war epic, Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker is thus far the best reviewed of the recent dramatizations of the Iraq War."[28] Metacritic, which assigns a rating normalized to 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, reported that the film has received an average score of 94/100 based on 35 reviews.[29]
Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun Times rated the film as the best film of 2009 and the second best of the decade,[30] writing, "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." He applauded how the suspense was built, calling the film "spellbinding." Ebert considered Renner "a leading contender for Academy Awards," writing, "His performance is not built on complex speeches but on a visceral projection of who this man is and what he feels. He is not a hero in a conventional sense."[31] He eventually ranked it the second-best film of the decade, behind only Synecdoche, New York.[32]
Richard Corliss of Time magazine also spoke highly of Renner's performance, calling it a highlight of the film. Corliss wrote,

"He's ordinary, pudgy-faced, quiet, and at first seems to lack the screen charisma to carry a film. That supposition vanishes in a few minutes, as Renner slowly reveals the strength, confidence and unpredictability of a young Russell Crowe. The merging of actor and character is one of the big things to love about this movie... It's a creepy marvel to watch James in action. He has the cool aplomb, analytical acumen and attention to detail of a great athlete, or a master psychopath, maybe both."
Corliss praised the film's "steely calm" tone, reflective of its main character. 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."[33]
A. O. Scott of The New York Times called The Hurt Locker the best American feature film yet made about the war in Iraq:

"You may emerge from The Hurt Locker shaken, exhilarated and drained, but you will also be thinking ... The movie is a viscerally exciting, adrenaline-soaked tour de force of suspense and surprise, full of explosions and hectic scenes of combat, but it blows a hole in the condescending assumption that such effects are just empty spectacle or mindless noise."
Scott noticed that the film reserved criticism of the war but wrote of how the director handled the film's limits, "Ms. Bigelow, practicing a kind of hyperbolic realism, distills the psychological essence and moral complications of modern warfare into a series of brilliant, agonizing set pieces." He also applauded the convergence of the characters in the film, saying that it "focuses on three men whose contrasting temperaments knit this episodic exploration of peril and bravery into a coherent and satisfying story."[34] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the performances of Renner, Mackie, and Geraghty would raise their profiles considerably, and said their characters reveal their "unlooked-for aspects", such as Renner's character being playful with an Iraqi boy. Turan applauded Boal's "lean and compelling" script and said of Bigelow's direction, "Bigelow and her team bring an awesome ferocity to re-creating the unhinged mania of bomb removal in an alien, culturally unfathomable atmosphere."[35]
Guy Westwell of Sight & Sound wrote that the cinematographer Barry Ackroyd provided "sharp handheld coverage" and that Paul N.J. Ottosson's sound design "uses the barely perceptible ringing of tinnitus to amp up the tension."[36] Westwell praised the director's skill:

"The careful mapping of the subtle differences between each bomb, the play with point of view ... and the attenuation of key action sequences ... lends the film a distinctive quality that can only be attributed to Bigelow's clever, confident direction."[36]
The critic noted the film's different take on the Iraq War, writing that "it confronts the fact that men often take great pleasure in war."[36] He concluded,

"This unapologetic celebration of a testosterone-fuelled lust for war may gall. Yet there is something original and distinctive about the film's willingness to admit that for some men (and many moviegoers) war carries an intrinsic dramatic charge."[36]
Amy Taubin of Film Comment described The Hurt Locker as "a structuralist war movie" and "a totally immersive, off-the-charts high-anxiety experience from beginning to end." Taubin praised Ackroyd's "brilliant" cinematography with multiple viewpoints. She said of the film's editing, "Bob Murawski and Chris Innis's editing is similarly quick and nervous; the rapid changes in POV as they cut from one camera's coverage to another's makes you feel as if you, like the characters, are under threat from all sides."[37]
Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal called it "A first-rate action thriller, a vivid evocation of urban warfare in Iraq, a penetrating study of heroism and a showcase for austere technique, terse writing and a trio of brilliant performances."[38] The Toronto Star critic Peter Howell said, "Just when you think the battle of Iraq war dramas has been fought and lost, along comes one that demands to be seen... If you can sit through The Hurt Locker without your heart nearly pounding through your chest, you must be made of granite."[39] Entertainment Weekly's film critic Lisa Schwarzbaum gave the film the rare "A" rating, calling it, "an intense, action-driven war pic, a muscular, efficient standout that simultaneously conveys the feeling of combat from within as well as what it looks like on the ground. This ain't no war videogame."[40]
Derek Elley of Variety found The Hurt Locker to be "gripping" as a thriller but felt that the film was weakened by, "its fuzzy (and hardly original) psychology." Elley wrote that it was unclear to know where the drama lay: "These guys get by on old-fashioned guts and instinct rather than sissy hardware—but it's not a pure men-under-stress drama either." The critic also felt that the script showed "signs of artificially straining for character depth."[41] Anne Thompson, also writing for Variety, believed The Hurt Locker to be a contender for Best Picture, particularly based on the unique subject matter pursued by a female director and on being an exception to other films about the Iraq War, which had performed poorly.[42]
Tara McKelvey from The American Prospect wrote that the film is pro-U.S. Army propaganda, although it suggests it is anti-war with the opening statement: "War is a drug." She continues,

"You feel empathy for the soldiers when they shoot. And in this way, the full impact of the Iraq war—at least as it was fought in 2004—becomes clear: American soldiers shot at Iraqi civilians even when, for example, they just happened to be holding a cell phone and standing near an IED." She concludes, "For all the graphic violence, bloody explosions and, literally, human butchery that is shown in the film, The Hurt Locker is one of the most effective recruiting vehicles for the U.S. Army that I have seen."[43]
John Pilger, journalist and documentarian, criticized the film in the New Statesman, writing that it "offers a vicarious thrill via yet another standard-issue psychopath high on violence in somebody else's country where the deaths of a million people are consigned to cinematic oblivion."[44]
On June 12, 2014, The Huffington Post listed The Hurt Locker as one of several films on its "8 Movies From The Last 15 Years That Are Super Overated" list. [45]
§Response among veterans[edit]
The film was criticized by some Iraq veterans and embedded reporters for inaccurately portraying wartime conditions.[46] Writing for The Huffington Post, Iraq veteran Kate Hoit said that The Hurt Locker is "Hollywood's version of the Iraq war and of the soldiers who fight it, and their version is inaccurate." She described the film as being more accurate than other recently released war films, but expressed concerns that a number of errors—among them wrong uniforms, lack of radio communication or misbehavior of the soldiers—would prevent service members from enjoying the film.[47]
Author Brandon Friedman, also a combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, shared a similar view at VetVoice: "The Hurt Locker is a high-tension, well-made, action movie that will certainly keep most viewers on the edges of their seats. But if you know anything about the Army, or about operations or life in Iraq, you'll be so distracted by the nonsensical sequences and plot twists that it will ruin the movie for you. It certainly did for me." Friedman criticized the inaccuracy of the film's representation of combat, saying "in real life, EOD techs don't conduct dangerous missions as autonomous three-man teams without communications gear ... Another thing you'll rarely hear in combat is an EOD E-7 suggesting to two or three of his guys that they leave the scene of an explosion in an Iraqi city by saying: 'C'mon, let's split up. We can cover more ground that way.'"[48]
At the blog Army of Dude, infantryman and Iraq veteran Alex Horton noted that "the way the team goes about their missions is completely absurd." He still generally enjoyed it and called it "the best Iraq movie to date."[49]
Troy Steward, another combat veteran, wrote on the blog Bouhammer that while the film accurately depicted the scale of bomb violence and the relations between Iraqis and troops, "just about everything else wasn't realistic." Steward went on to say: "I was amazed that a movie so bad could get any kind of accolades from anyone."[50]
A review published March 8, 2010 in the Air Force Times[51] cited overall negative reviews from bomb experts in Iraq attached to the 4th Brigade, 1st Armored Division, quoting a bomb disposal team leader who called the film's portrayal of a bomb expert "grossly exaggerated and not appropriate," and describing the lead character as "more of a run and gun cowboy type … exactly the kind of person that we're not looking for." Another bomb disposal team member said that the lead character's "swagger would put a whole team at risk. Our team leaders don't have that kind of invincibility complex, and if they do, they aren't allowed to operate. A team leader's first priority is getting his team home in one piece."
On the embedded side, former correspondent for The Politico and Military Times Christian Lowe (who embedded with U.S. military units each year from 2002 to 2005) explained at DefenseTech: "Some of the scenes are so disconnected with reality to be almost parody."[52]
On the other hand, Henry Engelhardt, an adjutant with the National Explosive Ordnance Disposal Association having 20 years' experience in bomb defusal, complimented the film's atmosphere and depiction of the difficulties of the job, saying, "Of course, no film is realistic in all its details, but the important things were done very well."[53] Screenwriter Mark Boal noted that The Hurt Locker was produced independently, without US Army extras.[54]
Former British bomb disposal officer Guy Marot said, “James makes us look like hot-headed, irrational adrenaline junkies with no self-discipline. It’s immensely disrespectful to the many officers who have lost their lives.” [55]
§Lawsuits[edit]
§Sarver lawsuit[edit]
In early March 2010, U.S. Army bomb disposal expert Master Sergeant Jeffrey Sarver filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against The Hurt Locker. Sarver's lawsuit claimed he used the term "hurt locker" and the phrase "war is a drug" around Boal, that his likeness was used to create the character William James, and that the portrayal of William James defames Sarver.[56] Sarver said he felt "just a little bit hurt, a little bit felt left out" and cheated out of "financial participation" in the film.[57] Sarver claimed he originated the title of the film; however, the title is a decades-old colloquialism for being injured, as in "they sent him to the hurt locker."[58] It dates back to the Vietnam War where it was one of several phrases meaning "in trouble or at a disadvantage; in bad shape."[59] Boal defended himself to the press, saying "the film is a work of fiction inspired by many people's stories."[57] He said he talked to more than 100 soldiers during his research.[60] Jody Simon, a Los Angeles-based entertainment lawyer, noted that "soldiers don't have privacy", and that when the military embedded Boal they gave him full permission to use his observations as he saw fit. Summit Entertainment, the producers of the film, said in early March that they hoped for a quick resolution to the suit.[57] In the December 8, 2011, issue of The Hollywood Reporter, it was announced that Master Sergeant Sarver's lawsuit was thrown out by the court, and a federal judge ordered him to pay more than $180,000 in attorney fees.[61]
§Copyright infringement lawsuit[edit]
On May 12, 2010, Voltage Pictures, the production company behind The Hurt Locker, announced that it would attempt to sue "potentially tens of thousands" of online computer users who downloaded pirated copies of the film using the BitTorrent and P2P networks. It would be the largest lawsuit of its kind.[62][63] On May 28, 2010, it filed a complaint against 5,000 unidentified BitTorrent users in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia; Voltage will demand $1,500 from each defendant to release them from the suit.[64] Several people, however, have refused to settle with the studio.[65] The U.S. Copyright Group (USCG) has since dropped all cases against the alleged Hurt Locker pirates.[66]
On August 29, 2011, the Federal Court of Canada ordered the three Canadian ISPs—Bell Canada, Cogeco, and Vidéotron—to disclose the names and addresses of the subscribers whose IP addresses were suspected to have downloaded a copy of the film. The ISPs were given two weeks to comply with the order.[67]
§Release[edit]
§Festival screenings[edit]
The Hurt Locker had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival on September 4, 2008, and the film received a 10-minute standing ovation at the end of its screening.[68] At the festival, the film won the SIGNIS award,[69] the Arca Cinemagiovani Award (Arca Young Cinema Award) for "Best Film Venezia 65" (chosen by an international youth jury); the Human Rights Film Network Award; and the Venezia Cinema Award known as the "Navicella".[70] The film also screened at the 33rd Annual Toronto International Film Festival on September 8,[68] where it generated "keen interest", though distributors were reluctant to buy it since previous films about the Iraq War performed poorly at the box office.[71] Summit Entertainment purchased the film for distribution in the United States in what was perceived as "a skittish climate for pic sales".[72]
In the rest of 2008, The Hurt Locker screened at the 3rd Zurich Film Festival,[73] the 37th Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, the 21st Mar del Plata Film Festival,[74] the 5th Dubai International Film Festival, and the 12th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.[75] In 2009, The Hurt Locker screened at the Göteborg International Film Festival,[76] the 10th Film Comment Selects festival,[77] and the South by Southwest film festival.[78] It was the closing night film at Maryland Film Festival 2009, with Bigelow presenting. It had a centerpiece screening at the 3rd AFI Dallas International Film Festival, where director Kathryn Bigelow received the Dallas Star Award.[79] Other 2009 festivals included the Human Rights Nights International Film Festival,[80] the Seattle International Film Festival,[81] and the Philadelphia Film Festival.[82]
§Theatrical run[edit]
The Hurt Locker was first publicly released in Italy by Warner Bros. on October 10, 2008.[68] Summit Entertainment picked the film up for distribution in the United States after it was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival for $1.5 million.[83] The Hurt Locker was released in the United States on June 26, 2009, with a limited release at four theaters in Los Angeles and New York City.[84] Over its first weekend the film grossed $145,352, averaging $36,338 per theater. The following weekend, beginning July 3, the film grossed $131,202 at nine theaters, averaging $14,578 per theater.[85] It held the highest per-screen average of any film playing theatrically in the United States for the first two weeks of its release,[1] gradually moving into the top 20 chart with much wider-released, bigger budget studio films.[86] It held around number 13 or number 14 on box office charts for an additional four weeks. Summit Entertainment took The Hurt Locker wider to more than 200 screens on July 24, 2009 and more than 500 screens on July 31, 2009.
The film's final gross was $17,017,811 in the United States and Canada, and $32,212,961 in other countries, bringing its worldwide total to $49,230,772 (less than any other Best Picture winner). It was a success against its budget of $15 million.[1]
According to the Los Angeles Times, The Hurt Locker performed better than most recent dramas about Middle East conflict. The film outperformed all other Iraq-war-themed films such as In the Valley of Elah (2007), Stop-Loss (2008) and Afghanistan-themed Lions for Lambs (2007).[83]
In the United States, The Hurt Locker is one of only four Best Picture winners (The English Patient, Amadeus, and The Artist being the other three) to never enter the weekend box office top 5 since top 10 rankings were first recorded in 1982. It is also one of the only two Best Picture winners on record never to have entered the weekend box office top 10 (The Artist being the other).
The Hurt Locker opened in the top ten in the United Kingdom in 103 theaters, scoring the fourth-highest per-screen average of $3,607, ranking between G-Force and G.I. Joe in overall grosses. The film garnered half a million dollars in its opening weekend in the United Kingdom of August 28 through August 30, 2009,[87] and grossed over a million dollars in the UK, Japan, Spain, and France through March.[88]
§Distribution: Independent film print shortage[edit]
According to an article in the Springfield, Illinois State Journal-Register, as of August 2009 there was a shortage of film prints of The Hurt Locker, as well as other hit independent films such as Food, Inc.[89] Distributors told theater owners that they would have to wait weeks or months past the initial U.S. release date to get the few available prints that were already in distribution. "Sometimes the distributors goof up," said a film buyer for one theater. "They misjudge how wide they should go."[89] One theory is that the independent films have a hard time competing for screen space during the summer against blockbuster tent-pole films that take up as much as half the screens in any given city, flooding the United States market with thousands of prints. Theater owners have also complained about distributors "bunching too many movies too close together".[89][90] It is also thought that independent film distributors are trying to cut their losses on prints by recycling them. Given the popularity of some of the films that are "hard to come by", this strategy may be leaving box office money on the table.[89][90]
§Home media[edit]
 The Hurt Locker was released on DVD and Blu-ray in North America on January 12, 2010. This disc includes an added audio commentary featuring director Kathryn Bigelow, writer Mark Boal, and other members of the production crew; an image gallery of photos from shooting; and a 15-minute EPK featurette highlighting the filming experience in Jordan and the film's production. The UK DVD and Blu-ray has no commentary.
U.S. sales of the DVD topped $30 million by mid-August 2010.[91]
§Awards and accolades[edit]


Main article: List of accolades received by The Hurt Locker
Starting with its initial screening at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival, The Hurt Locker has earned many awards and honors. It also ranked on more film critics' top 10 lists than any other film of 2009. It was nominated in nine categories at the 82nd Academy Awards and won in six: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Film Editing. It lost the award for Best Actor to Crazy Heart, Best Original Score to Up, and Best Cinematography to Avatar.[92] Bigelow became the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director,[93] and The Hurt Locker is to date, the lowest-grossing film to win Best Picture.[94]
Kathryn Bigelow was awarded the 2009 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film for the film, the first time a female director has ever won.[95] The film won six awards at the BAFTAs held on February 21, 2010, including Best Film and Best Director for Bigelow. The Hurt Locker was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards.[96]
The Washington DC Area Film Critics award for Best Director was given to Kathryn Bigelow, the first time the honor has gone to a woman. The film swept most critics groups awards for best director and best picture including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Boston, and Las Vegas' film critics associations. The Hurt Locker is one of only five films that have won all three major U.S. critics group prizes (NY, LA and NSFC), together with Goodfellas, Schindler's List, L.A. Confidential and The Social Network.
The five awards from the Boston Society of Film Critics were the most by that organization to a single film in the group's 30-year history.[97]
In February 2010, the film's producer Nicolas Chartier emailed a group of Academy Award voters in an attempt to sway them to vote for The Hurt Locker instead of "a $500M film" (referring to Avatar) for the Best Picture award. He later issued a public apology, saying that it was "out of line and not in the spirit of the celebration of cinema that this acknowledgment is".[98] The Academy banned him from attending the award ceremony, the first time the Academy has ever banned an individual nominee.[99]
§See also[edit]

Portal icon Iraq portal
Nine From Aberdeen, a 2012 book by Jeffrey M. Leatherwood on the WWII forerunners of EOD, with an afterword by CSM James H. Clifford, military consultant for The Hurt Locker.
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Thomson, Patricia (July 2009). "Risk and Valor: The Hurt Locker". American Cinematographer 90 (7): 44–50.
§Further reading[edit]
Barker, Martin (2011). A 'Toxic Genre': The Iraq War Films. London: Pluto Press. ISBN 978-0745331294.
§External links[edit]
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"Hurt Locker" redirects here. For the song by American rapper Xzibit, see Hurt Locker (song). For the Glee episode, see The Hurt Locker, Part One and The Hurt Locker, Part Two.

The Hurt Locker
From above a flat and dry desert floor, a person in a green military uniform with heavy padding holds red wires attached to seven pill-shaped bomb canisters scattered around him. At the top of the poster are three critics' favorable opinions: "A near-perfect movie", "A full-tilt action picture", and "Ferociously suspenseful". Below the quotes is the title "THE HURT LOCKER" and the tagline, "You don't have to be a hero to do this job. But it helps."
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Kathryn Bigelow
Produced by
Kathryn Bigelow
Mark Boal
Nicolas Chartier
 Greg Shapiro
Written by
Mark Boal
Starring
Jeremy Renner
Anthony Mackie
Brian Geraghty
Christian Camargo
Evangeline Lilly
Ralph Fiennes
David Morse
Guy Pearce
Music by
Marco Beltrami
 Buck Sanders
Cinematography
Barry Ackroyd
Edited by
Chris Innis
Bob Murawski

Production
 company

Voltage Pictures
Grosvenor Park Media
 Film Capital Europe Funds
 First Light Production
 Kingsgate Films
Summit Entertainment

Distributed by
Warner Bros. (Italy)
Summit Entertainment/
Universal Studios (USA)
Lionsgate/
Optimum Releasing (UK)

Release dates

September 4, 2008 (Venice)
June 26, 2009 (United States)


Running time
 131 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$15 million[1]
Box office
$49.2 million[1]
The Hurt Locker is a 2008 American war film about a three-man Explosive Ordnance Disposal (bomb disposal) team during the Iraq War. The film was produced and directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a U.S. Army EOD team in Iraq. It stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, and Brian Geraghty.
The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in Italy during 2008. After being shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, it was picked up for distribution in the United States by Summit Entertainment. In May 2009, it was the Closing Night selection for Maryland Film Festival. The film was released in the United States on June 26, 2009 but received a more widespread theatrical release on July 24, 2009.
Since the film was not released in the United States until 2009, it was eligible for the 82nd Academy Awards, where it was nominated for nine Academy Awards. Although the film had not covered its budget by the time of the ceremony,[2] it won six Oscars, including Best Director for Bigelow (the first woman to win this award), Best Original Screenplay for Boal, and Best Picture. The Hurt Locker earned numerous awards and honors from critics' organizations, festivals and groups, including six BAFTA Awards. However, it received criticism by some in the military for various inaccuracies. The Hurt Locker is identified as the "lowest-grossing movie to ever win Best Picture" in Academy Award, as of 2010.[3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Writing
3.2 Casting
3.3 Filming
3.4 Cinematography
3.5 Editing
4 Reception 4.1 Critical response
4.2 Response among veterans
5 Lawsuits 5.1 Sarver lawsuit
5.2 Copyright infringement lawsuit
6 Release 6.1 Festival screenings
6.2 Theatrical run
6.3 Distribution: Independent film print shortage
6.4 Home media
7 Awards and accolades
8 See also
9 References
10 Bibliography
11 Further reading
12 External links

§Plot[edit]
The Hurt Locker opens with a quotation from War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a best-selling 2002 book by Chris Hedges, a New York Times war correspondent and journalist: "The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug."[4][5][6]
Sergeant First Class William James (Jeremy Renner), a battle-tested veteran, arrives as a new team leader of a U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit in the Iraq War,[7][8] replacing Staff Sergeant Matthew Thompson (Guy Pearce), who was killed by a radio-controlled 155mm improvised explosive device (IED) in Baghdad. His team includes Sergeant J.T. Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Specialist Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty).
James' maverick methods and attitude lead Sanborn and Eldridge to consider him reckless, and tensions mount. When they are assigned to destroy some explosives in a remote desert area, James returns to the detonation site to pick up his gloves. Sanborn openly contemplates killing James by "accidentally" triggering the explosion, making Eldridge very uncomfortable, but Sanborn does nothing.
Returning to Camp Victory in their Humvee, the team encounters five armed men in traditional Arab garb standing near the men's Ford Excursion, which has a flat tire. After a tense encounter, the men reveal themselves to be private military contractors and British mercenaries. They have captured two prisoners featured on the most-wanted Iraqi playing cards. The entire group suddenly comes under fire, and when the prisoners attempt to escape in the confusion, the leader of the mercenaries (Ralph Fiennes) remembers the bounty for them is "dead or alive" and shoots them. Enemy snipers kill three of the mercenaries, including the leader. Sanborn and James borrow a Barrett .50 cal to dispatch three attackers, while Eldridge kills a fourth.
During a raid on a warehouse, James discovers the body of a young boy, which has been surgically implanted with an unexploded bomb. James believes it to be "Beckham" (Christopher Sayegh), an Iraqi youth he had previously befriended. During evacuation, Lieutenant Colonel John Cambridge (Christian Camargo), the camp's psychiatrist and a friend of Eldridge's, is killed in an explosion; Eldridge blames himself for the Colonel's death. Later, James leaves the military compound seeking revenge for Beckham and breaks into the house of an Iraqi professor, but his search reveals nothing and he leaves.
Called to a petrol tanker detonation, James decides on his own to hunt for the insurgents responsible, guessing they are still in the immediate area. Sanborn protests, but when James heads out, he and Eldridge reluctantly follow. After they split up, insurgents capture Eldridge. James and Sanborn rescue him, but accidentally shoot him in the leg. The following morning, James is approached by Beckham, who James believed was dead. The young boy tries to play soccer with James and sell him more DVDs, but the soldier walks by without saying a word. Before being airlifted for surgery elsewhere, Eldridge angrily blames James for his injury.
James and Sanborn's unit is called to another mission in their last two days of their rotation. An innocent Iraqi civilian man has had a bomb vest strapped to his chest. James tries to cut off the locks to remove the vest, but there are too many to undo in the time available before the bomb will detonate. He has to abandon the man, who is killed when the bomb explodes. Sanborn is left distraught by the man's death. He confesses to James that he can no longer cope with the pressure, and he wants to return home and have a son.
After Bravo Company's rotation ends, James returns home to his ex wife, Connie (Evangeline Lilly) and their infant son who both still live with him in his house. However, he is bored and disconnected from routine civilian life, with its ordinary tasks of shopping at the supermarket and family dinners. One night, James confesses to his son that there is only one thing that he knows he loves. Shortly thereafter, he starts another tour of duty serving with Delta Company, U.S. Army EOD unit as they are starting their 365-day rotation.
§Cast[edit]
Jeremy Renner as Sergeant First Class William James
Anthony Mackie as Sergeant J. T. Sanborn
Brian Geraghty as Specialist Owen Eldridge
Guy Pearce as Staff Sergeant Matthew Thompson
Christian Camargo as Lieutenant Colonel John Cambridge
David Morse as Colonel Reed
Ralph Fiennes as the leader of a Private Military Company unit
Evangeline Lilly as Connie James
Christopher Sayegh as Beckham
§Production[edit]
§Writing[edit]
The Hurt Locker is based on accounts of Mark Boal, a freelance journalist who was embedded with an American bomb squad in the war in Iraq for two weeks in 2004.[9] The director Kathryn Bigelow was familiar with Boal's work before his experiences, having adapted one of his Playboy articles as the short-lived television series The Inside in 2002. When Boal was embedded with the squad, he accompanied its members 10 to 15 times a day to watch their tasks, and kept in touch with Bigelow via email about his experiences.[10] Boal used his experiences as the basis of a fictional drama based on real events. He said of the film's goal, "The idea is that it's the first movie about the Iraq War that purports to show the experience of the soldiers. We wanted to show the kinds of things that soldiers go through that you can't see on CNN, and I don't mean that in a censorship-conspiracy way. I just mean the news doesn't actually put photographers in with units that are this elite."[11] Bigelow was fascinated with exploring "the psychology behind the type of soldier who volunteers for this particular conflict and then, because of his or her aptitude, is chosen and given the opportunity to go into bomb disarmament and goes toward what everybody else is running from."[12]
While working with Boal in 2005 on the script, originally titled The Something Jacket, Bigelow began to do some preliminary, rough storyboards to get an idea of the specific location needed. Bomb disarmament protocol requires a containment area. She wanted to make the film as authentic as possible and "put the audience into the Humvee, into a boots-on-the-ground experience."[12]
§Casting[edit]





Jeremy Renner



Anthony Mackie



Brian Geraghty

For the main characters, Bigelow made a point of casting relatively unknown actors: "it underscored the tension because with the lack of familiarity also comes a sense of unpredictability."[12] Renner's character, Sergeant First Class William James, is a composite character, with qualities based on individuals whom screenwriter Boal knew when embedded with the bomb squad.[10] Bigelow cast Renner based on his work in Dahmer, a film about Jeffrey Dahmer, the notorious serial killer whose victims were boys.[13] To prepare for the film, Renner spent a week living and training at Fort Irwin, a U.S. military reservation in the Mojave Desert in California. He was taught to use C4 explosives, learned how to render safe improvised explosive devices, and how to wear a bomb suit.[13]
Mackie plays Sergeant J.T. Sanborn. Describing the experience of filming in Jordan in the summer, he said, "It was so desperately hot, and we were so easily agitated. But that movie was like doing a play. We really looked out for each other, and it was a great experience. It made me believe in film."[14]
Several hundred thousand refugees of Iraq live in Jordan. Bigelow cast refugees who had theatrical backgrounds, such as Suhail Aldabbach. He plays the innocent man used as a suicide bomber at the film's end.[10]
§Filming[edit]
The film was shot in Jordan, within miles of the Iraqi border, to achieve Bigelow's goal of authenticity. Iraqi refugees were used for extras and the cast worked in the unmistakable heat of the Middle East. The filmmakers had scouted for locations in Morocco, but director Kathryn Bigelow felt its cities did not resemble Baghdad. In addition, she wanted to get as close to the war zone as possible. Some of the locations were less than three miles from the Iraq border.[15] She had wanted to shoot in Iraq, but the production security team could not guarantee their safety from snipers.[12]
Principal photography began in July 2007 in Jordan and Kuwait. Temperatures averaged 120 °F (49 °C) over the 44 days of shooting.[11][12][13] Often four or more camera crews filmed simultaneously, which resulted in nearly 200 hours of footage.[15][16] The producer Greg Shapiro spoke about security concerns of filming in Jordan, "It was interesting telling people we were going to make the movie in Jordan because the first question everybody asked was about the security situation here."
Her choice to film in the Kingdom met some resistance. In discussion, Bigelow found that her cast and crew shared stereotypes of the region from American culture. “Sadly people in America and Los Angeles have these perceptions,” she said. “But once you get off the plane you realise it's like Manhattan without the trees,” she continued. As Iraq dominates discourse in America and across the world, Bigelow believes filmmakers will continue to explore the conflict, making Jordan the natural place to film.[17]
According to producer Tony Mark, the blood, sweat and heat captured on-camera in the production was mirrored behind the scenes.

"It's a tough, tough movie about a tough, tough subject", Mark said in an interview, "There was a palpable tension throughout on the set. It was just like the onscreen story of three guys who fight with each other, but when the time comes to do the work, they come together to get the job done."[18]
Renner remembered, "I got food bugs. Then I got food poisoning: lost 15 lbs in three days".[13] In addition to the burden of the heat, the bomb suit he had to wear all day weighed 80–100 lb (36–45 kg).[19] In a scene in which his character carries a dead Iraqi boy, Renner fell down some stairs and twisted his ankle, which delayed filming because he could not walk. At that point, "people wanted to quit. All the departments were struggling to get their job done, none of them were communicating".[13] A week later, filming resumed.[13]
The producer Tony Mark recalled the armorer David Fencl's finishing a 12-hour day. He found he had to stay up all night to make proper ammunition for a sniper rifle, as the supplies did not clear Jordanian customs in time for the scheduled shoot.[18] Due to import restrictions on military props, the film's special effects artist Richard Stutsman used Chinese fireworks for gunpowder. One day, he was assembling a prop, and the heat and friction caused the fireworks to blow up in his face. Two days later, he returned to work.[13] The film shoot had few of the normal Hollywood perks; nobody on the set got an air-conditioned trailer or a private bathroom.[18] Renner said that great care was taken to ensure the film's authenticity.[20] According to Renner, shooting the film in the Middle East contributed to this. "There were two-by-fours with nails being dropped from two-story buildings that hit me in the helmet, and they were throwing rocks.... We got shot at a few times while we were filming", Renner said. "When you see it, you're gonna feel like you've been in war."[21]

"You can't fake that amount of heat", Mackie says, adding, "When you are on set and all of the extras are Iraqi refugees, it really informs the movie that you're making. When you start hearing the stories from a true perspective ... of people who were actually there, it gives you a clear viewpoint of where you are as an artist and the story you would like to tell. It was a great experience to be there."[22]
§Cinematography[edit]
For the film, Bigelow sought to immerse audiences "into something that was raw, immediate and visceral". Impressed with cinematographer Barry Ackroyd's work on United 93 and The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Bigelow invited him to work on her film. While the film was independently produced and filmed on a low budget, Bigelow used four Super 16 mm cameras to capture multiple perspectives, saying,

"That's how we experience reality, by looking at the microcosm and the macrocosm simultaneously. The eye sees differently than the lens, but with multiple focal lengths and a muscular editorial style, the lens can give you that microcosm/macrocosm perspective, and that contributes to the feeling of total immersion."[23]
In staging the film's action sequences, Bigelow did not want to lose a sense of the geography and used multiple cameras to allow her to "look at any particular set piece from every possible perspective."[12]
§Editing[edit]
The Hurt Locker was edited by Chris Innis and Bob Murawski.[24][25] The two editors worked with almost 200 hours of footage from the multiple hand-held cameras in use during the shoot.[25] Adding to the challenge, Boal's screenplay had a non-traditional, asymmetrical, episodic structure. There was no traditional "villain", and tension was derived from the characters' internal conflicts and the suspense from the explosives and snipers.[25]

"This movie is kind of like a horror film where you're unable to see the killer," says Innis. "You know a bomb could go off at any minute, but you never know just when it's going to happen, so the ideas of [Alfred] Hitchcock—about making your audience anxious—were influential for us when we did the editing."[26]
The raw footage was described as a "hodge-podge of disconnected, nausea-inducing motion that was constantly crossing the 180-degree line".[25]
Innis spent the first eight weeks editing the film on location in Jordan, before returning to Los Angeles, where she was joined by Murawski. The process took over eight months to complete.[24][27] The goal was to edit a brutally realistic portrayal of the realities of war, using minimal special effects or technical enhancement.[24][25] Innis stated that they "really wanted the film to retain that 'newsreel' documentary quality... Too many stage-y effects would have been distracting. The editing in this film was all about restraint".[24]
Editing on location led to additional complications in post-production. The production was unwilling to risk sending undeveloped film through high-security airports where the cans could be opened, X-rayed, or damaged. Accordingly, film was hand-carried on a flight by a production assistant from Amman to London. After the Super 16mm film was transferred to DVcam at a lab in London, the video dailies were transported by plane back to the Middle East to be imported into the editing system. The whole journey would take anywhere from three days to a week and was described by Innis as the "modern-day equivalent of shipping via donkey cart".[25] The low production budget and the lack of a developed film infrastructure in the area hampered the process, according to Innis. "We were working with grainy Super 16mm film, editing in standard definition. We tried doing FTP downloads, but at the time the facilities in Jordan simply couldn't handle it."[24][25] The producer Tony Mark later negotiated the use of a local radio station late at night to receive low-grade QuickTime clips over the Internet so the crew would not be shooting blindly.[25]
Innis stresses the importance of sound to the editing process. "So much of the rhythms of our editing were based on sonic elements—the breathing of the soldiers, the sounds of explosions, or even the emptiness of sound just prior to a bomb going off." The two editors worked with production tracks recorded by Ray Beckett, the production sound mixer. Innis credits Beckett's high-quality location sound as the reason they did not need to do much in the way of soundscaping in post-production.[24]
§Reception[edit]


§Critical response[edit]
 The Hurt Locker was met with nearly universal acclaim, with Renner's performance receiving praise from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a "certified fresh" score of 98% based on 225 reviews, with a weighted mean score of 8.4 out of 10.[28] It was the second highest-rated film in 2009 at Rotten Tomatoes, behind Pixar's Up with 98%. Rotten Tomatoes wrote of the critics' consensus, "A well-acted, intensely shot, action filled war epic, Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker is thus far the best reviewed of the recent dramatizations of the Iraq War."[28] Metacritic, which assigns a rating normalized to 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, reported that the film has received an average score of 94/100 based on 35 reviews.[29]
Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun Times rated the film as the best film of 2009 and the second best of the decade,[30] writing, "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." He applauded how the suspense was built, calling the film "spellbinding." Ebert considered Renner "a leading contender for Academy Awards," writing, "His performance is not built on complex speeches but on a visceral projection of who this man is and what he feels. He is not a hero in a conventional sense."[31] He eventually ranked it the second-best film of the decade, behind only Synecdoche, New York.[32]
Richard Corliss of Time magazine also spoke highly of Renner's performance, calling it a highlight of the film. Corliss wrote,

"He's ordinary, pudgy-faced, quiet, and at first seems to lack the screen charisma to carry a film. That supposition vanishes in a few minutes, as Renner slowly reveals the strength, confidence and unpredictability of a young Russell Crowe. The merging of actor and character is one of the big things to love about this movie... It's a creepy marvel to watch James in action. He has the cool aplomb, analytical acumen and attention to detail of a great athlete, or a master psychopath, maybe both."
Corliss praised the film's "steely calm" tone, reflective of its main character. 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."[33]
A. O. Scott of The New York Times called The Hurt Locker the best American feature film yet made about the war in Iraq:

"You may emerge from The Hurt Locker shaken, exhilarated and drained, but you will also be thinking ... The movie is a viscerally exciting, adrenaline-soaked tour de force of suspense and surprise, full of explosions and hectic scenes of combat, but it blows a hole in the condescending assumption that such effects are just empty spectacle or mindless noise."
Scott noticed that the film reserved criticism of the war but wrote of how the director handled the film's limits, "Ms. Bigelow, practicing a kind of hyperbolic realism, distills the psychological essence and moral complications of modern warfare into a series of brilliant, agonizing set pieces." He also applauded the convergence of the characters in the film, saying that it "focuses on three men whose contrasting temperaments knit this episodic exploration of peril and bravery into a coherent and satisfying story."[34] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the performances of Renner, Mackie, and Geraghty would raise their profiles considerably, and said their characters reveal their "unlooked-for aspects", such as Renner's character being playful with an Iraqi boy. Turan applauded Boal's "lean and compelling" script and said of Bigelow's direction, "Bigelow and her team bring an awesome ferocity to re-creating the unhinged mania of bomb removal in an alien, culturally unfathomable atmosphere."[35]
Guy Westwell of Sight & Sound wrote that the cinematographer Barry Ackroyd provided "sharp handheld coverage" and that Paul N.J. Ottosson's sound design "uses the barely perceptible ringing of tinnitus to amp up the tension."[36] Westwell praised the director's skill:

"The careful mapping of the subtle differences between each bomb, the play with point of view ... and the attenuation of key action sequences ... lends the film a distinctive quality that can only be attributed to Bigelow's clever, confident direction."[36]
The critic noted the film's different take on the Iraq War, writing that "it confronts the fact that men often take great pleasure in war."[36] He concluded,

"This unapologetic celebration of a testosterone-fuelled lust for war may gall. Yet there is something original and distinctive about the film's willingness to admit that for some men (and many moviegoers) war carries an intrinsic dramatic charge."[36]
Amy Taubin of Film Comment described The Hurt Locker as "a structuralist war movie" and "a totally immersive, off-the-charts high-anxiety experience from beginning to end." Taubin praised Ackroyd's "brilliant" cinematography with multiple viewpoints. She said of the film's editing, "Bob Murawski and Chris Innis's editing is similarly quick and nervous; the rapid changes in POV as they cut from one camera's coverage to another's makes you feel as if you, like the characters, are under threat from all sides."[37]
Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal called it "A first-rate action thriller, a vivid evocation of urban warfare in Iraq, a penetrating study of heroism and a showcase for austere technique, terse writing and a trio of brilliant performances."[38] The Toronto Star critic Peter Howell said, "Just when you think the battle of Iraq war dramas has been fought and lost, along comes one that demands to be seen... If you can sit through The Hurt Locker without your heart nearly pounding through your chest, you must be made of granite."[39] Entertainment Weekly's film critic Lisa Schwarzbaum gave the film the rare "A" rating, calling it, "an intense, action-driven war pic, a muscular, efficient standout that simultaneously conveys the feeling of combat from within as well as what it looks like on the ground. This ain't no war videogame."[40]
Derek Elley of Variety found The Hurt Locker to be "gripping" as a thriller but felt that the film was weakened by, "its fuzzy (and hardly original) psychology." Elley wrote that it was unclear to know where the drama lay: "These guys get by on old-fashioned guts and instinct rather than sissy hardware—but it's not a pure men-under-stress drama either." The critic also felt that the script showed "signs of artificially straining for character depth."[41] Anne Thompson, also writing for Variety, believed The Hurt Locker to be a contender for Best Picture, particularly based on the unique subject matter pursued by a female director and on being an exception to other films about the Iraq War, which had performed poorly.[42]
Tara McKelvey from The American Prospect wrote that the film is pro-U.S. Army propaganda, although it suggests it is anti-war with the opening statement: "War is a drug." She continues,

"You feel empathy for the soldiers when they shoot. And in this way, the full impact of the Iraq war—at least as it was fought in 2004—becomes clear: American soldiers shot at Iraqi civilians even when, for example, they just happened to be holding a cell phone and standing near an IED." She concludes, "For all the graphic violence, bloody explosions and, literally, human butchery that is shown in the film, The Hurt Locker is one of the most effective recruiting vehicles for the U.S. Army that I have seen."[43]
John Pilger, journalist and documentarian, criticized the film in the New Statesman, writing that it "offers a vicarious thrill via yet another standard-issue psychopath high on violence in somebody else's country where the deaths of a million people are consigned to cinematic oblivion."[44]
On June 12, 2014, The Huffington Post listed The Hurt Locker as one of several films on its "8 Movies From The Last 15 Years That Are Super Overated" list. [45]
§Response among veterans[edit]
The film was criticized by some Iraq veterans and embedded reporters for inaccurately portraying wartime conditions.[46] Writing for The Huffington Post, Iraq veteran Kate Hoit said that The Hurt Locker is "Hollywood's version of the Iraq war and of the soldiers who fight it, and their version is inaccurate." She described the film as being more accurate than other recently released war films, but expressed concerns that a number of errors—among them wrong uniforms, lack of radio communication or misbehavior of the soldiers—would prevent service members from enjoying the film.[47]
Author Brandon Friedman, also a combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, shared a similar view at VetVoice: "The Hurt Locker is a high-tension, well-made, action movie that will certainly keep most viewers on the edges of their seats. But if you know anything about the Army, or about operations or life in Iraq, you'll be so distracted by the nonsensical sequences and plot twists that it will ruin the movie for you. It certainly did for me." Friedman criticized the inaccuracy of the film's representation of combat, saying "in real life, EOD techs don't conduct dangerous missions as autonomous three-man teams without communications gear ... Another thing you'll rarely hear in combat is an EOD E-7 suggesting to two or three of his guys that they leave the scene of an explosion in an Iraqi city by saying: 'C'mon, let's split up. We can cover more ground that way.'"[48]
At the blog Army of Dude, infantryman and Iraq veteran Alex Horton noted that "the way the team goes about their missions is completely absurd." He still generally enjoyed it and called it "the best Iraq movie to date."[49]
Troy Steward, another combat veteran, wrote on the blog Bouhammer that while the film accurately depicted the scale of bomb violence and the relations between Iraqis and troops, "just about everything else wasn't realistic." Steward went on to say: "I was amazed that a movie so bad could get any kind of accolades from anyone."[50]
A review published March 8, 2010 in the Air Force Times[51] cited overall negative reviews from bomb experts in Iraq attached to the 4th Brigade, 1st Armored Division, quoting a bomb disposal team leader who called the film's portrayal of a bomb expert "grossly exaggerated and not appropriate," and describing the lead character as "more of a run and gun cowboy type … exactly the kind of person that we're not looking for." Another bomb disposal team member said that the lead character's "swagger would put a whole team at risk. Our team leaders don't have that kind of invincibility complex, and if they do, they aren't allowed to operate. A team leader's first priority is getting his team home in one piece."
On the embedded side, former correspondent for The Politico and Military Times Christian Lowe (who embedded with U.S. military units each year from 2002 to 2005) explained at DefenseTech: "Some of the scenes are so disconnected with reality to be almost parody."[52]
On the other hand, Henry Engelhardt, an adjutant with the National Explosive Ordnance Disposal Association having 20 years' experience in bomb defusal, complimented the film's atmosphere and depiction of the difficulties of the job, saying, "Of course, no film is realistic in all its details, but the important things were done very well."[53] Screenwriter Mark Boal noted that The Hurt Locker was produced independently, without US Army extras.[54]
Former British bomb disposal officer Guy Marot said, “James makes us look like hot-headed, irrational adrenaline junkies with no self-discipline. It’s immensely disrespectful to the many officers who have lost their lives.” [55]
§Lawsuits[edit]
§Sarver lawsuit[edit]
In early March 2010, U.S. Army bomb disposal expert Master Sergeant Jeffrey Sarver filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against The Hurt Locker. Sarver's lawsuit claimed he used the term "hurt locker" and the phrase "war is a drug" around Boal, that his likeness was used to create the character William James, and that the portrayal of William James defames Sarver.[56] Sarver said he felt "just a little bit hurt, a little bit felt left out" and cheated out of "financial participation" in the film.[57] Sarver claimed he originated the title of the film; however, the title is a decades-old colloquialism for being injured, as in "they sent him to the hurt locker."[58] It dates back to the Vietnam War where it was one of several phrases meaning "in trouble or at a disadvantage; in bad shape."[59] Boal defended himself to the press, saying "the film is a work of fiction inspired by many people's stories."[57] He said he talked to more than 100 soldiers during his research.[60] Jody Simon, a Los Angeles-based entertainment lawyer, noted that "soldiers don't have privacy", and that when the military embedded Boal they gave him full permission to use his observations as he saw fit. Summit Entertainment, the producers of the film, said in early March that they hoped for a quick resolution to the suit.[57] In the December 8, 2011, issue of The Hollywood Reporter, it was announced that Master Sergeant Sarver's lawsuit was thrown out by the court, and a federal judge ordered him to pay more than $180,000 in attorney fees.[61]
§Copyright infringement lawsuit[edit]
On May 12, 2010, Voltage Pictures, the production company behind The Hurt Locker, announced that it would attempt to sue "potentially tens of thousands" of online computer users who downloaded pirated copies of the film using the BitTorrent and P2P networks. It would be the largest lawsuit of its kind.[62][63] On May 28, 2010, it filed a complaint against 5,000 unidentified BitTorrent users in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia; Voltage will demand $1,500 from each defendant to release them from the suit.[64] Several people, however, have refused to settle with the studio.[65] The U.S. Copyright Group (USCG) has since dropped all cases against the alleged Hurt Locker pirates.[66]
On August 29, 2011, the Federal Court of Canada ordered the three Canadian ISPs—Bell Canada, Cogeco, and Vidéotron—to disclose the names and addresses of the subscribers whose IP addresses were suspected to have downloaded a copy of the film. The ISPs were given two weeks to comply with the order.[67]
§Release[edit]
§Festival screenings[edit]
The Hurt Locker had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival on September 4, 2008, and the film received a 10-minute standing ovation at the end of its screening.[68] At the festival, the film won the SIGNIS award,[69] the Arca Cinemagiovani Award (Arca Young Cinema Award) for "Best Film Venezia 65" (chosen by an international youth jury); the Human Rights Film Network Award; and the Venezia Cinema Award known as the "Navicella".[70] The film also screened at the 33rd Annual Toronto International Film Festival on September 8,[68] where it generated "keen interest", though distributors were reluctant to buy it since previous films about the Iraq War performed poorly at the box office.[71] Summit Entertainment purchased the film for distribution in the United States in what was perceived as "a skittish climate for pic sales".[72]
In the rest of 2008, The Hurt Locker screened at the 3rd Zurich Film Festival,[73] the 37th Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, the 21st Mar del Plata Film Festival,[74] the 5th Dubai International Film Festival, and the 12th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.[75] In 2009, The Hurt Locker screened at the Göteborg International Film Festival,[76] the 10th Film Comment Selects festival,[77] and the South by Southwest film festival.[78] It was the closing night film at Maryland Film Festival 2009, with Bigelow presenting. It had a centerpiece screening at the 3rd AFI Dallas International Film Festival, where director Kathryn Bigelow received the Dallas Star Award.[79] Other 2009 festivals included the Human Rights Nights International Film Festival,[80] the Seattle International Film Festival,[81] and the Philadelphia Film Festival.[82]
§Theatrical run[edit]
The Hurt Locker was first publicly released in Italy by Warner Bros. on October 10, 2008.[68] Summit Entertainment picked the film up for distribution in the United States after it was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival for $1.5 million.[83] The Hurt Locker was released in the United States on June 26, 2009, with a limited release at four theaters in Los Angeles and New York City.[84] Over its first weekend the film grossed $145,352, averaging $36,338 per theater. The following weekend, beginning July 3, the film grossed $131,202 at nine theaters, averaging $14,578 per theater.[85] It held the highest per-screen average of any film playing theatrically in the United States for the first two weeks of its release,[1] gradually moving into the top 20 chart with much wider-released, bigger budget studio films.[86] It held around number 13 or number 14 on box office charts for an additional four weeks. Summit Entertainment took The Hurt Locker wider to more than 200 screens on July 24, 2009 and more than 500 screens on July 31, 2009.
The film's final gross was $17,017,811 in the United States and Canada, and $32,212,961 in other countries, bringing its worldwide total to $49,230,772 (less than any other Best Picture winner). It was a success against its budget of $15 million.[1]
According to the Los Angeles Times, The Hurt Locker performed better than most recent dramas about Middle East conflict. The film outperformed all other Iraq-war-themed films such as In the Valley of Elah (2007), Stop-Loss (2008) and Afghanistan-themed Lions for Lambs (2007).[83]
In the United States, The Hurt Locker is one of only four Best Picture winners (The English Patient, Amadeus, and The Artist being the other three) to never enter the weekend box office top 5 since top 10 rankings were first recorded in 1982. It is also one of the only two Best Picture winners on record never to have entered the weekend box office top 10 (The Artist being the other).
The Hurt Locker opened in the top ten in the United Kingdom in 103 theaters, scoring the fourth-highest per-screen average of $3,607, ranking between G-Force and G.I. Joe in overall grosses. The film garnered half a million dollars in its opening weekend in the United Kingdom of August 28 through August 30, 2009,[87] and grossed over a million dollars in the UK, Japan, Spain, and France through March.[88]
§Distribution: Independent film print shortage[edit]
According to an article in the Springfield, Illinois State Journal-Register, as of August 2009 there was a shortage of film prints of The Hurt Locker, as well as other hit independent films such as Food, Inc.[89] Distributors told theater owners that they would have to wait weeks or months past the initial U.S. release date to get the few available prints that were already in distribution. "Sometimes the distributors goof up," said a film buyer for one theater. "They misjudge how wide they should go."[89] One theory is that the independent films have a hard time competing for screen space during the summer against blockbuster tent-pole films that take up as much as half the screens in any given city, flooding the United States market with thousands of prints. Theater owners have also complained about distributors "bunching too many movies too close together".[89][90] It is also thought that independent film distributors are trying to cut their losses on prints by recycling them. Given the popularity of some of the films that are "hard to come by", this strategy may be leaving box office money on the table.[89][90]
§Home media[edit]
 The Hurt Locker was released on DVD and Blu-ray in North America on January 12, 2010. This disc includes an added audio commentary featuring director Kathryn Bigelow, writer Mark Boal, and other members of the production crew; an image gallery of photos from shooting; and a 15-minute EPK featurette highlighting the filming experience in Jordan and the film's production. The UK DVD and Blu-ray has no commentary.
U.S. sales of the DVD topped $30 million by mid-August 2010.[91]
§Awards and accolades[edit]


Main article: List of accolades received by The Hurt Locker
Starting with its initial screening at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival, The Hurt Locker has earned many awards and honors. It also ranked on more film critics' top 10 lists than any other film of 2009. It was nominated in nine categories at the 82nd Academy Awards and won in six: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Film Editing. It lost the award for Best Actor to Crazy Heart, Best Original Score to Up, and Best Cinematography to Avatar.[92] Bigelow became the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director,[93] and The Hurt Locker is to date, the lowest-grossing film to win Best Picture.[94]
Kathryn Bigelow was awarded the 2009 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film for the film, the first time a female director has ever won.[95] The film won six awards at the BAFTAs held on February 21, 2010, including Best Film and Best Director for Bigelow. The Hurt Locker was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards.[96]
The Washington DC Area Film Critics award for Best Director was given to Kathryn Bigelow, the first time the honor has gone to a woman. The film swept most critics groups awards for best director and best picture including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Boston, and Las Vegas' film critics associations. The Hurt Locker is one of only five films that have won all three major U.S. critics group prizes (NY, LA and NSFC), together with Goodfellas, Schindler's List, L.A. Confidential and The Social Network.
The five awards from the Boston Society of Film Critics were the most by that organization to a single film in the group's 30-year history.[97]
In February 2010, the film's producer Nicolas Chartier emailed a group of Academy Award voters in an attempt to sway them to vote for The Hurt Locker instead of "a $500M film" (referring to Avatar) for the Best Picture award. He later issued a public apology, saying that it was "out of line and not in the spirit of the celebration of cinema that this acknowledgment is".[98] The Academy banned him from attending the award ceremony, the first time the Academy has ever banned an individual nominee.[99]
§See also[edit]

Portal icon Iraq portal
Nine From Aberdeen, a 2012 book by Jeffrey M. Leatherwood on the WWII forerunners of EOD, with an afterword by CSM James H. Clifford, military consultant for The Hurt Locker.
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§Bibliography[edit]
Thomson, Patricia (July 2009). "Risk and Valor: The Hurt Locker". American Cinematographer 90 (7): 44–50.
§Further reading[edit]
Barker, Martin (2011). A 'Toxic Genre': The Iraq War Films. London: Pluto Press. ISBN 978-0745331294.
§External links[edit]
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