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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.
Jun 26, 2009 · “There’s a price for that kind of heroism,” Kathryn Bigelow says of The Hurt Locker’s lead character, an ingenious Army grunt who stares bombs in the face for his daily bread and who slowly comes to appreciate the immense toll that such death-defying work takes on the psyche.
Aug 3, 2017 · With her recent run of The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, and the newly released Detroit, Kathryn Bigelow has established herself as one of the most critically acclaimed filmmakers of serious, adult drama. But it wasn’t always that way.
Aug 2, 2017 · Bigelow and Boal then embarked on the process they’ve perfected since making the Iraq drama The Hurt Locker, which won six Oscars in 2010, including best picture, and 2012’s Zero Dark Thirty,...
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The Hurt Locker, American war movie, released in 2008, that is set during the second year of the Iraq War and won six Academy Awards, including for best picture. For her work on the film, Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Oscar for best director.
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Jul 10, 2019 · When Kathryn Bigelow won an Oscar for directing The Hurt Locker (2008), she was the first (and to this day, only) woman to receive the award. Not only did she break one of Hollywood’s most notorious glass ceilings, she did so by defying stereotypes at the helm of a gut-wrenching war film that almost exclusively featured men.
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A well-acted, intensely shot, action filled war epic, Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker is thus far the best of the recent dramatizations of the Iraq War. Read Critics Reviews
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