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Let the award season begin! The 13th annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood awards have announced that Director Kathryn Bigelow will be honored with the "Hollywood Director Award", Screenwriter Nora Ephron will be presented with the "Hollywood Screenwriter Award", Disney / Pixar's UP will get the "Hollywood Animation Award" and Scott Farrar , ...

A Fine Frenzy - Bomb In A Birdcage Posted by Paul Schofield on 09.08.2009 See this is how Sylvester should have killed Tweety Pie... I don't know where I first heard about A Fine Frenzy, but somehow she appeared on my radar, like a Russian sub hiding behind a bench on which a tramp sleeps, drowning in his own liquids.

Adrenalised action filmmaking may seem like an exclusive boy's club, but Kathryn Bigelow has shown that she can handle big Hollywood productions just as well as her male peers.

Point Break director's movie hailed as first great film about Iraq war with Oscar nominations predicted for Jeremy Renner Christoper Goodwin You wouldn't be alone in being surprised by The Hurt Locker, a powerful and critically acclaimed American film set in the Iraq war.

"The Hurt Locker" gives the viewer a gut-tightening, white-knuckled look at what has to be one of the worst jobs in the world: bomb disposal in Iraq.

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Written by Mark Boal. A Summit Entertainment release, opening today at Showcase Levis Commons.

Who knew that director Kathryn Bigelow was anything other than a Hollywood hack? Sure, sure, she's had her supporters, but practically all of her past projects have favored cold style over warm substance.

William James, a member of an elite U.S. Army bomb squad nearing the end of its tour in Iraq, in "The Hurt Locker." Courtesy of Summit Entertainment More Photos : Review The Hurt Locker ***1/2 a Rated: R for war violence and language.

Fact-based story of a near-miss nuclear disaster aboard a Soviet submarine in 1961.

Director Kathryn Bigelow attended the San Francisco Art Institute in the late '60s and like a lot of her young colleagues had plans to become an avant-garde painter.

Yes, he smokes. I accept. I also accept the hand-held camerawork. We all have it-makes-sense-here exceptions.

When Kathryn Bigelow read the script for The Hurt Locker , she was riveted by the authenticity, the attention to detail and, perhaps most importantly, the way in which it paid tribute to military heroes.

Director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal's "The Hurt Locker," the new action-thriller about Explosive Ordnance Disposal Squads at the heart of the Iraq war, is dedicated to delivering both an exciting time at the theater and a rarely seen glimpse at some of the conflict's most important soldiers.

The son of daytime diva Victoria Wyndham , Christian Camargo landed his first Broadway role just out of drama school and his career has continued to gain momentum.

Slim as lightning, Kathryn Bigelow makes movies charged with adrenaline and electricity, action thrillers like Blue Steel and Point Break .

Attention to detail helps 'The Hurt Locker' imbed audience with tension-filled duty of military bomb squad July 5, 2009 BY BILL ZWECKER Columnist / bzwecker@suntimes.com Kathryn Bigelow, director of ''The Hurt Locker'' , sees the irony in the fact the lead actors in her film are ''extraordinary actors who will largely be unfamiliar to general ...

Actors Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie in a scene from the new film "The Hurt Locker." Films about the war on terror have not been high on audiences' must-see list.

Courtesy of Summit Entertainment With a white-knuckled new movie about an American bomb squad in Iraq, director Kathryn Bigelow proves once again that if women ruled the earth, it wouldn't necessarily be a peaceable kingdom.

The Loveless Bigelow's feature debut was a low-budget but fabulously moody biker flick - "The Wild One'' as existential fetish art, starring a hot young Willem Dafoe.

" The Hurt Locker " opened today to some of the strongest reviews for a movie this year.