Director Kathryn Bigelow
Producers Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro
Production company Voltage Pictures, First Light, Kingsgate Films
USdistribution Summit Entertainment
International sales Voltage Pictures
US release date June 26
Worldwide gross $17.8m to December 13
Best picture chances
Of all the films to date involving the Iraq or Afghanistan conflicts, The Hurt Locker had the biggest impact on audiences, probably because Bigelow played it as a nail-biting adrenaline-rush thriller rather than an issues-based picture or anti-war piece. The film has the potential to grab key Oscar nominations and has already been named best picture of the year by New York and Los Angeles critics groups, as well as being nominated for a Golden Globe for best picture (drama).
What Screen said
“This is closer in spirit to Fight Club than other recent Iraq-set fare, although The Hurt Locker is visually reminiscent of everything from Jarhead to The Kingdom, and is evidently a war film… Technically, this is all you can ask from a war film, and Barry Ackroyd shoots low and intensely. A big relief is the lack of a powering, throbbing soundtrack; Bigelow allows her characters to make their own case without the score pumping it out for them.”
Fionnuala Halligan
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