The Hurt Locker

...Clooney are considered best-actor front-runners for their respective meaty performances in "A Single Man," "Crazy Heart," "The Hurt Locker" and "Up in the Air," which means such Oscar-pedigreed types as Daniel Day-Lewis, Viggo Mortensen...

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...Gabourey Sidibe and Bright Star's Abbie Cornish. Other potential nominees hobnobbing among the swarm of Academy voters were The Hurt Locker screenwriter Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow; Morgan Freeman, who plays Nelson Mandela...

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...landscape. I didn't really know much about it, but I learned about it in the process of writing "The Hurt Locker" and producing it. That was like a four-year thing, all in, and by the end of that period I felt like, "Wow, I've learned a...

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...Centers. Director brings action-film chops to drama about bomb squad in Iraq There are no female characters in the Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker -- practically no women in the movie at all, aside from the occasional Baghdad wife or mother...

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...I'm not here!' Jeremy Renner should earn an Oscar for his role as an Army bomb defuser in "The Hurt Locker," but he's definitely not making a "Hurt Locker 2." It wasn't the Michelin tire man-like suit he had to wear in the blazing heat of...

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...powerful work that's as intense as any war movie. (In fact, it would make a fascinating double bill with Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker.) Foster spoke to Vulture on Veteran's Day about trying to do justice to America's...

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...flashy enough. Marshall's "Nine" sure looks flashy, but, as noted above, I'm skeptical of musicals these days. Kathryn Bigelow ("The Hurt Locker") is a long shot considering that only three other women have ever nabbed noms for best director...

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...will be announced, along with special career tributes to actors Stanley Tucci and Natalie Portman, director Katheryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), and producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner (A Serious Man, The Soloist, Frost/Nixon). Since...

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...Awards 2009 Savannah Film Festival Closes Nov. 7 with Special Screenings of 'The Hurt Locker' and 'Precious'' Jeremy Renner of "The Hurt Locker" Receives the Spotlight Award SAVANNAH, Ga., Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The 12th annual...

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...a director who made her mark on adrenaline-junkie fare such as "Point Break," finds her ultimate subject in the men stuck in "The Hurt Locker": bomb disposal experts working the deadly streets of Iraq. SHOW TIMES: 7:15 p.m. Saturday and...

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