The Hurt Locker is a 2008 war film directed by Kathryn Bigelow, following a United States Army bomb disposal team during the Iraq War. The story centers on Staff Sergeant William James, a reckless and skilled technician who joins the unit after its previous leader is killed, and traces the strain his methods and the daily threat of improvised explosive devices place on his fellow soldiers Sergeant J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge. The cast included Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty, with supporting appearances from Ralph Fiennes, David Morse and Guy Pearce. It won six Academy Awards at the 2010 ceremony, including Best Picture and Best Director, the latter making Bigelow the first woman to win that award, despite the film grossing only about seventeen million dollars domestically, the lowest domestic gross of any Best Picture winner up to that time.
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The Hurt Locker is a 2008 American war film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal.
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The Hurt Locker is a 2008 American war film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal.
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The Hurt Locker is a 2008 American war film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal.
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At the festival, the film won the SIGNIS award, 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".
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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.
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