Nicolas Chartier Articles
THE HURT LOCKER, THE DEER HUNTER, PLATOON, BRAVEHEART: The Oscars & War Movie Controversies
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 [...]
Nicolas Chartier’s THE HURT LOCKER Lawsuit Email
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 [...]
THE HURT LOCKER Producer Nicolas Chartier Barred from Oscar Ceremony
Oscar-nominated The Hurt Locker producer Nicolas Chartier will be denied attendance at the 2010 Academy Awards ceremony. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that "should The Hurt Locker be announced as the recipient of the Best Picture award at Sunday’s ceremonies, only three of the picture’s producers will be present for the celebration." The Iraq War drama’s other nominated producers are [...]
Nicolas Chartier, THE HURT LOCKER, the Oscars, the E-mails, the Punishment (If Any)
Anthony Mackie, Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker The Hurt Locker producer Nicolas Chartier will be facing some sort of punishment from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences following multiple e-mails he sent out asking Academy members to vote for the Kathryn Bigelow-directed Iraq War drama and not an unnamed "$500 million film" widely known as Avatar as the Best Picture of 2009. [...]