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6 unusual facts about The Hurt Locker


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In The Independent, James Rampton described the show as "The Hurt Locker meets Miranda" and said that it "strikes the right balance between edgy and entertaining".

Bomb disposal

The Hurt Locker, a 2009 film about U.S. Army bomb-disposal experts in Iraq.

Boston Society of Film Critics

The 2009 award for best picture and best director went to The Hurt Locker directed by Kathryn Bigelow and also won three other awards (best actor, best cinematography and best film editing).

Duraid Munajim

In 2007 Duraid worked as one of the principal camera operators on The Hurt Locker, which ended up winning multiple awards internationally, including Best Picture at the 2010 Oscar awards.

PVR Pictures

It has distributed over 200 Hollywood films, including ‘The Aviator’, ‘Mission: Impossible III’, ‘Kill Bill’ ‘The Hurt Locker’, ‘The Twilight Saga’ and ‘Chicago’; over 100 Bollywood films, including blockbusters such as ‘Ghajini’, ‘Golmaal Returns’, ‘All The Best’, ‘Don', ‘Sarkar Raj’, ‘Omkara’ and nearly 25 Regional films since its inception.

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

The Hurt Locker, an Academy Award-winning film, opens with a quotation from the book: "The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug."


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She became the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director for The Hurt Locker, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, the BAFTA Award for Best Direction, and the Critics' Choice Award for Best Director as well as the Saturn Award for Best Director.


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