The Hurt Locker is a 2008 American war thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. It stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, and Guy Pearce. The film follows an Iraq War Explosive Ordnance Disposal team who are targeted by insurgents and shows their psychological reactions to the stress of combat. Boal drew on his experience during embedded access to write the screenplay.
The Hurt Locker premiered at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival before it was released in the United States on June 26, 2009, by Summit Entertainment. The film earned acclaim from critics, who praised Bigelow's directing, Renner's performance, Boal's screenplay, editing, musical score, cinematography, sound design and action sequences. The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won six, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. It was the first Best Picture winner to have been directed by a woman. The film grossed $49.2 million worldwide.
It is now considered to be one of the best war films of the 2000s and the 21st century.[2][3][4][5] In 2020, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[6]
TheHurtLocker is a 2008 American war thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. It stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian...
the war drama TheHurtLocker (2008), Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director. She has since directed the spy thriller...
TheHurtLocker is a 2009 Iraq War film written by Mark Boal and directed by Kathryn Bigelow. The film premiered on September 4, 2008, at the 65th Venice...
performance as a soldier in TheHurtLocker (2009) and for Best Supporting Actor for playing a hot-headed robber in The Town (2010). Renner has played...
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2009, he wrote and produced TheHurtLocker, for which he won both the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Academy Award for Best Picture...
president of the Academy, and actress Anne Hathaway. Avatar and TheHurtLocker led the nominations with nine each. The winners were announced during the awards...
The Road (2009), Kathryn Bigelow's war drama TheHurtLocker (2009) and Tom Hooper's historical drama The King's Speech (2010). He has appeared in TED...
Duchess (2008), The Reader (2008), The HurtLocker (2009), Clash of the Titans (2010), Great Expectations (2012), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), A Bigger...
for his roles in the 2005 film Jarhead, the 2008 film TheHurtLocker, and in the 2012 film Flight, along with his recurring role in the HBO drama series...
the show on the Fox network. The final season, consisting of 13 episodes, premiered on Friday, January 9, 2015, with the first two episodes, and the last...
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in the action thriller Eagle Eye and was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in TheHurtLocker. He...
The Widowmaker in 2002. His film credits include To Kill a King (2003); London to Brighton (2006); Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007); TheHurtLocker (2008);...
Bigelow's 2008 war film TheHurtLocker as well as the critically acclaimed 2013 biographical thriller Captain Phillips, the former earning him a BAFTA...
studio album, At the Speed of Life (1996). The album saw positive critical reception, modestly entered the Billboard 200, and spawned the single "Paparazzi...
The Hurt Locker. District 9 followed with seven. TheHurtLocker took home the most awards with six. This year marked the first year of the new Academy...
The Coen brothers, however, were on form, examining their midwestern Jewish roots in A Serious Man, and Kathryn Bigelow's TheHurtLocker was the best...
Pictures, where his breakthrough film TheHurtLocker allowed him to produce other successful films. TheHurtLocker was Voltage's first in-house production...
the weekend box office top 10. Were it not for this late push, The Last Emperor would have joined The English Patient, Amadeus, and TheHurtLocker as...
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