Nicolas Chartier Articles

Below is an e-mail sent by Nicolas Chartier (right), best known as the Hurt Locker producer who was barred from the Academy Awards ceremony earlier this year after sending out e-mails requesting votes for his film and not for that other big-studio flick (that's James Cameron's Avatar). The latest Chartier missile-missive was directed at a Toronto-based BoingBoing reader who wrote the producer to "politely register [...]

Best Picture: The Hurt Locker. Oscar acceptance speeches: Mark Boal: Thank you so much. This has been such a dream. Beyond a dream for all of us who have lived for so long with this story. And, you know, we had this fantasy of making our film our way with the talent that we hoped to have. And hopefully, we would find a distributor and [...]

THE HURT LOCKER: Controversy Hasn't Harmed Oscar-Nominated War Movies Julie Christie in Variety, discussing The Deer Hunter (1978, right, with Robert De Niro): "The film presents the Vietcong as subhuman and sadistic, though they effectively resisted both France and the United States, which possessed enormous means of warfare." Jane Fonda, the star of the post-Vietnam-syndrome Coming Home, later took it upon herself to campaign against [...]

Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker The Hurt Locker producer Nicolas Chartier's e-mails keep popping up online. The latest sample was posted by Steven Zeitchik of the Los Angeles Times blog 24 Frames. This time around, Chartier's e-mail has nothing to do with either Oscar vote-soliciting or his film's chief Best Picture competitor, Avatar. An army sergeant, Jeffrey Sarver, has sued the Hurt Locker producers [...]