Showing posts with label Mark Boal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Boal. Show all posts

March 8, 2010

The Hurt Locker wins 6 Academy Awards!

Behold the winners:

  • Best Picture: “The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro
  • Best Director: “The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow
  • Best Actor: Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart”
  • Best Actress: Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side”
  • Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds”
  • Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique in “Precious”
  • Best Original Screenplay: “The Hurt Locker” Written by Mark Boal
  • Best Adapted Screenplay: “Precious” Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
  • Best Foreign Language: “The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos)” Argentina
  • Best Animated Film: “Up” Pete Docter
  • Best Documentary: “The Cove” Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens
  • Best Cinematography: “Avatar” Mauro Fiore
  • Best Art Direction: Avatar” Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair
  • Best Costumes: “The Young Victoria” Sandy Powell
  • Best Editing: “The Hurt Locker” Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
  • Best Score: “Up” Michael Giacchino
  • Best Song: The Weary Kind”(Crazy Heart) Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
  • Best Makeup: “Star Trek” Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
  • Best Visual Effects: “Avatar” Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones
  • Best Sound Editing: “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson
  • Best Sound Mixing: “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
  • Best Animated Short: “Logorama” Nicolas Schmerkin
  • Best Live Action Short: “The New Tenants” Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
  • Best Documentary Short: “Music by Prudence” Roger Ross Williams and Elinor
-Some trivia...The Hurt Locker becomes the lowest grossing Best Picture winner in history, Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to ever win Best Director, and all of the 8 major awards were won by first-time honorees (with only Bridges having been previously nominated at all). Congrats to them all!

January 15, 2010

Does Kathryn Bigelow have another film she's interested in making?

Seems as such, according to this in The Hollywood Reporter:

The Golden Globes aren't the only thing that Kathryn Bigelow has riding this weekend.

The director, who has been riding high for the past year with "The Hurt Locker," will likely find out if she has another directing gig.

Bigelow is attached to direct "Held by the Taliban," a package out to studios Friday that aims to adapt a five-part New York Times series about David Rohde's experience as a captive of the Taliban in Afghanistan for seven months. (The reporter was kidnapped with two Afghan colleagues on Nov. 10, 2008, as they traveled to an interview with a Taliban commander outside of Kabul.)

Stephen Belber, who most recently wrote and directed the Jennifer Aniston comedy "Management," is attached to adapt, and Kennedy/Marshall is attached to produce. ICM put the package together.

Unlike other directors, who attach themselves to multiple projects after a hit movie, or a comeback, Bigelow has been patient and choosy with whom she partners. Since "The Hurt Locker" was released in June, she has attached herself only to "Triple Frontiers," a drug project set in South America that sees her reteaming with "Hurt Locker" writer Mark Boal.

-Both projects sound like they could be very interesting...thoughts?