Mark Boal Articles

Kathryn Bigelow thanked a whole array of uniformed U.S. personnel when she accepted her Academy Award statuettes for Best Director and Best Picture for the Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker back in early 2010. Now, I can't recall her thanking Sgt. Jeffrey Sarver (photo). Shortly before the 2010 Oscar ceremony, Sarver sued the Hurt Locker producers, including Bigelow and Oscar-winning screenwriter Mark Boal, claiming [...]

Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker The Hurt Locker's Academy Award winners Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal have been receiving assistance from the Barack Obama Administration for their project about the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan earlier this year, according to a Maureen Dowd report in the New York Times. In her article, Dowd affirms that "the moviemakers are getting top-level [...]

Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal arrive at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Kathryn Bigelow won last year's Best Direction Oscar for the Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker, which starred one of this year's Best Supporting Actor nominees, Jeremy Renner (The Town). Boal was The Hurt Locker's screenwriter. After being introduced by Hilary Swank, Bigelow presented this year's Best [...]

I can't say if the Oscar 2010 ceremony was dull or deadly because I didn't watch most of it. In fact, I watched maybe a total of fifteen minutes overall — thirty seconds here; 45 seconds there; a couple of minutes further down the line. Come to think of it, I wonder how many of the 43.1 million who supposedly watched this year's Oscarcast actually [...]