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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; The Hurt Locker</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/the-hurt-locker/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:29:41 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER Lawsuit Dismissed</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-hurt-locker-lawsuit-jeffrey-sarver-dismissed/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-hurt-locker-lawsuit-jeffrey-sarver-dismissed/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:28:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35470</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-hurt-locker-lawsuit-jeffrey-sarver-dismissed/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER&#039;s Nicolas Chartier&#039;s Latest E-Mail Storm</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/nicolas-chartiers-email-bittorrent-the-hurt-locker/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/nicolas-chartiers-email-bittorrent-the-hurt-locker/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 23:22:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24244</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 &#34;politely register [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/nicolas-chartiers-email-bittorrent-the-hurt-locker/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver Plant Tree in Brazil</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/james-cameron-sigourney-weaver-earth-day-network/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/james-cameron-sigourney-weaver-earth-day-network/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:45:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23922</guid> <description><![CDATA[Avatar's Sigourney Weaver and James Cameron are in Brazil promoting both the release of the sci-fi blockbuster on DVD and Blu-ray in that country, and the Earth Day Network/Fox Home Entertainment effort to have 1 million trees planted around the world. In this photo, Weaver and Cameron can be seen planting &#8212; or at least posing as if they're planting &#8212; a pau-brasil tree in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/james-cameron-sigourney-weaver-earth-day-network/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Robert Pattinson&#039;s REMEMBER ME: Indie or Not?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/robert-pattinson-remember-me-indie-or-not/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/robert-pattinson-remember-me-indie-or-not/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:45:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23885</guid> <description><![CDATA[Robert Pattinson, Tate Ellington Remember Me Is the Robert Pattinson's vehicle Remember Me a true &#34;independent film&#34; or not? One commenter wrote the following about Remember Me: &#34;Some of the posters need to look up ‘indie’. &#8230; To be truly indie you need a budge [sic] of less than ten mil, not to ever open on more than 500 screens, and have less than three [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/robert-pattinson-remember-me-indie-or-not/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz, AVATAR: Empire Awards 2010</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/robert-pattinson-empire-awards-christoph-waltz/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/robert-pattinson-empire-awards-christoph-waltz/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 02:02:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23754</guid> <description><![CDATA[Vampires galore: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson The Twilight Saga: New Moon (top); Tomas Alfredson's Let the Right One In (middle); Park Chan-wook's Thirst (bottom) From Robert Pattinson in The Twilight Saga: New Moon to Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds, from J.J. Abrams' Star Trek to Park Chan-wook's Thirst, from Zoe Saldana in Avatar to Anne-Marie Duff in Nowhere Boy &#8212; there's something for just about [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/robert-pattinson-empire-awards-christoph-waltz/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>International Box Office: The Oscars &amp; CRAZY HEART, THE BLIND SIDE, THE HURT LOCKER</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/box-office-crazy-heart-the-blind-side/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/box-office-crazy-heart-the-blind-side/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:45:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23349</guid> <description><![CDATA[Scott Cooper, Jeff Bridges on the Crazy Heart set (top); Nick Saban, Tim McGraw, Lily Collins, Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side (middle); Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (bottom) Crazy Heart, The Blind Side, and The Hurt Locker have all been helped at the domestic box office following their Oscar victories on March 7. Crazy Heart earned Jeff Bridges a Best Actor Oscar; The Blind [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/box-office-crazy-heart-the-blind-side/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar Box Office Effect: CRAZY HEART, THE BLIND SIDE, THE HURT LOCKER Benefit</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/crazy-heart-the-blind-side-the-hurt-locker-benefit/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/crazy-heart-the-blind-side-the-hurt-locker-benefit/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:11:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23303</guid> <description><![CDATA[At the North American box office, Crazy Heart (above), The Blind Side, and The Hurt Locker were the only three movies that benefited from their Oscar victories last Sunday. Starring Jeff Bridges as a down-and-out country singer who strikes up a relationship with a younger woman (Maggie Gyllenhaal), Crazy Heart earned Bridges the Best Actor Oscar, in addition to another statuette for Best Original Song [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/crazy-heart-the-blind-side-the-hurt-locker-benefit/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>ALICE IN WONDERLAND, REMEMBER ME, THE GREEN ZONE: Weekend Box Office Predictions</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/weekend-box-office-predictions-remember-me/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/weekend-box-office-predictions-remember-me/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:53:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23264</guid> <description><![CDATA[As a film for both adults and children, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (above, with Helena Bonham Carter) will surely dominate this weekend's box office. How forceful that &#34;domination&#34; will be remains to be seen. Even if the adventure-fantasy drops by 50 percent, that will still mean a remarkable $60 million over the next three days &#8212; but figures could go even higher. Alice in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/weekend-box-office-predictions-remember-me/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER at the Oscars: Iraq War Drama Wins; Iraqis Ignored</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-iraq-war-oscar-393/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-iraq-war-oscar-393/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:33:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23070</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 &#8212; 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 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-iraq-war-oscar-393/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2010 Ratings Up: Why?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-ratings-up-412/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-ratings-up-412/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:31:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23066</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow, Barbra Streisand The 2010 Academy Awards ceremony were watched by an estimated 41.3 million people in the United States, up 14 percent from last year according to the Nielsen Co. The Hurt Locker's victory over Avatar was seen by more people &#8212; in case there were 41.3 million still up by then &#8212; than any other Oscarcast since Million Dollar Baby took the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-ratings-up-412/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Picture THE HURT LOCKER: Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal&#039;s Oscar Acceptance Speeches</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-kathryn-bigelow-mark-boal-494/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-kathryn-bigelow-mark-boal-494/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:59:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22984</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-kathryn-bigelow-mark-boal-494/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kathryn Bigelow&#039;s 2010 Oscar Acceptance Speech</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kathryn-bigelow-oscar-acceptance-speech-494/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kathryn-bigelow-oscar-acceptance-speech-494/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:39:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22982</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Hurt Locker's Best Director Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar acceptance speech: &#34;This really is&#8230; There's no other way to describe it, it's the moment of a lifetime. First of all, this is so extraordinary to be in the company of such powerful, my fellow nominees, such powerful filmmakers who have inspired me and I have admired for, some of whom, for decades. And thank you to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kathryn-bigelow-oscar-acceptance-speech-494/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER&#039;s Mark Boal &#8211; 2010 Oscar Acceptance Speech</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/mark-boal-777-oscar-acceptance-speech/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/mark-boal-777-oscar-acceptance-speech/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:57:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22950</guid> <description><![CDATA[Best Original Screenplay, The Hurt Locker: Mark Boal's Oscar acceptance speech. &#34;Oh my god. Wow, thank you Academy. You honor me and humble me with this. More than, more than you know. I was a reporter back from Iraq with the idea for a story about these men on the frontlines of an unpopular war. &#34;I thought it might make a movie. The result wildly [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/mark-boal-777-oscar-acceptance-speech/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2010 Nominations</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-nominations-559/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-nominations-559/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:10:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21545</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Hurt Locker (Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment) (&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category) Best motion picture of the year “Avatar” (20th Century Fox), A Lightstorm Entertainment Production, James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers “The Blind Side” (Warner Bros.), An Alcon Entertainment Production, Nominees to be determined “District 9” (Sony Pictures Releasing), A Block/Hanson Production, Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers “An Education” (Sony [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-nominations-559/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>2010 Oscar Predictions</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-predictions-bullock-bridges-the-hurt-locker-88019/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-predictions-bullock-bridges-the-hurt-locker-88019/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:00:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22540</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeremy Renner in Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (top); Zoe Saldana in James Cameron's Avatar (upper middle); Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart (lower middle); Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side Below is our complete 2010 Oscar Predictions list. If we're correct, The Hurt Locker will win a total of six Oscars, followed by Avatar with three (Titanic won 11 back in 1998), and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-predictions-bullock-bridges-the-hurt-locker-88019/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER, THE DEER HUNTER, PLATOON, BRAVEHEART: The Oscars &amp; War Movie Controversies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-deer-hunter-platoon-braveheart-659/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-deer-hunter-platoon-braveheart-659/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:21:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22877</guid> <description><![CDATA[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): &#34;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.&#34; Jane Fonda, the star of the post-Vietnam-syndrome Coming Home, later took it upon herself to campaign against [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-deer-hunter-platoon-braveheart-659/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER: Controversy Has Not Harmed Oscar-Nominated War Movies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-controversy-oscar-190/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-controversy-oscar-190/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:20:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22874</guid> <description><![CDATA[Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce in The Hurt Locker (top); Lew Ayres in All Quiet on the Western Front (bottom) The Hurt Locker, an Iraq War drama that follows a US military bomb disposal unit, has been harshly criticized by some Iraq War veterans. Some have called the movie inaccurate and its depiction of soldiers in a war zone laughable. Others have gone as far as [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-controversy-oscar-190/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER: The Best Picture Oscar&#039;s War Movies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-oscar-war-movies-677/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-oscar-war-movies-677/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:39:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22865</guid> <description><![CDATA[If Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker wins the Best Picture Academy Award on Sunday, it'll be the eighth out-and-out war movie to win the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' top prize. Prior battle-scarred winners were Wings (1927-28), All Quiet on the Western Front (1929-30), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Patton (1970), The Deer Hunter (1978), Platoon (1986), and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-oscar-war-movies-677/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>PRECIOUS, PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, Colin Firth, Helen Mirren: Spirit Award Nominations</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/precious-paranormal-activity-colin-firth-434/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/precious-paranormal-activity-colin-firth-434/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:40:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22703</guid> <description><![CDATA[Helen Mirren, Anne-Marie Duff, Paul Giamatti in The Last Station (top); Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart in Best Screenplay nominee Adventureland (upper middle); Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel in (500) Days of Summer (lower middle); Gabourey Sidibe in Precious (bottom) The Academy Awards show will be held on Sunday. The Razzie Awards Gala Ceremony will take place tomorrow. And tonight it's the Spirit Awards, live from downtown [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/precious-paranormal-activity-colin-firth-434/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Nicolas Chartier&#039;s THE HURT LOCKER Lawsuit Email</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/nicolas-chartier-hurt-locker-lawsuit-email-34985/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/nicolas-chartier-hurt-locker-lawsuit-email-34985/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:05:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22630</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/nicolas-chartier-hurt-locker-lawsuit-email-34985/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER Producers Sued</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/the-hurt-locker-producers-sued-44998/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/the-hurt-locker-producers-sued-44998/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:44:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22628</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Academy opted to postpone the 2010 Academy Awards ceremony a week so as not compete with the Winter Olympics held in Vancouver. Instead, the Oscars will be competing with the Iraqi parliamentary elections. Not that the Academy has anything to fear from the competition in terms of television ratings, but it's ironic that the Iraqi elections will be taking place on the same day [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/the-hurt-locker-producers-sued-44998/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar Campaign Scandal: Robert Wise, Miramax &amp; GANGS OF NEW YORK</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/robert-wise-miramax-gangs-of-new-york-43987/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/robert-wise-miramax-gangs-of-new-york-43987/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:34:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22592</guid> <description><![CDATA[Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York Nicolas Chartier, one of the four Oscar-nominated producers of The Hurt Locker, has been penalized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences because of e-mails he sent out a couple of weeks ago asking various Academy members to vote for his low-budgeted Iraq War drama and not for &#34;a $500M film&#34; &#8212; [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/robert-wise-miramax-gangs-of-new-york-43987/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER Producer Nicolas Chartier Barred from Oscar Ceremony</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/nicolas-chartier-punished-oscar-ceremony-59192/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/nicolas-chartier-punished-oscar-ceremony-59192/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:43:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22556</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 &#34;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.&#34; The Iraq War drama's other nominated producers are [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/nicolas-chartier-punished-oscar-ceremony-59192/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>2010 Oscar Predictions: Best Picture, THE HURT LOCKER</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/best-picture-the-hurt-locker-oscar-predictions-990099/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/best-picture-the-hurt-locker-oscar-predictions-990099/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:18:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22537</guid> <description><![CDATA[Best Picture, The Hurt Locker Also in the running: Avatar, District 9, The Blind Side, A Serious Man, Precious, Inglourious Basterds, An Education, Up, Up in the Air. Having won most guild awards, The Hurt Locker is the favorite to take home the 2010 Academy Award for Best Picture. Even so, the Iraq war drama isn't a lock (no pun intended) in that category. That [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/best-picture-the-hurt-locker-oscar-predictions-990099/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>2010 Oscar Predictions: Best Screenplay THE HURT LOCKER / UP IN THE AIR</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-up-in-the-air-best-screenplay-71719/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-up-in-the-air-best-screenplay-71719/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:34:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22531</guid> <description><![CDATA[Best Original Screenplay, The Hurt Locker Best Adapted Screenplay, Up in the Air Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner's win for Up in the Air, about an expert corporate-downsizer played by George Clooney, is all but assured. Reitman and Turner's screenplay has been the most honored by US film critics and it has won the Writers Guild Award. Mark Boal's The Hurt Locker screenplay is somewhat [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-up-in-the-air-best-screenplay-71719/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER Wins Best Sound Mixing Award</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-best-sound-mixing-award-80807/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-best-sound-mixing-award-80807/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:27:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22482</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, the favorite to take home this year's Best Picture Oscar (despite the ongoing e-mail scandal), won for outstanding achievement in sound mixing in 2009 at the Cinema Audio Society's CAS Awards held at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Production mixer Ray Beckett and re-recording mixer Paul J. Ottosson were the award recipients. The other feature-film nominees were James [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-best-sound-mixing-award-80807/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Nicolas Chartier, THE HURT LOCKER, the Oscars, the E-mails, the Punishment (If Any)</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/nicolas-chartier-the-hurt-locker-emails-punishment-55982/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/nicolas-chartier-the-hurt-locker-emails-punishment-55982/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:55:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22431</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 &#34;$500 million film&#34; widely known as Avatar as the Best Picture of 2009. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/nicolas-chartier-the-hurt-locker-emails-punishment-55982/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Robert Pattinson, AVATAR, STAR TREK: Empire Awards 2010</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/robert-pattinson-avatar-star-trek-22876/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/robert-pattinson-avatar-star-trek-22876/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:30:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22374</guid> <description><![CDATA[Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: New Moon (top); James Cameron, Sam Worthington in Avatar (middle); Aaron Johnson, Anne-Marie Duff in Nowhere Boy (bottom) James Cameron's Avatar hasn't been faring all that well with award-giving groups. Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker has been by far the most honored 2009 release. Avatar may not have that much of a chance at the Oscars, but [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/robert-pattinson-avatar-star-trek-22876/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER&#039;s Oscar No-No: Producer Nicolas Chartier&#039;s Vote-Soliciting E-mail</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-nicolas-chartier-email-48898/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-nicolas-chartier-email-48898/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:59:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22337</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker Remember the backlash following former Academy president and two-time Best Director Oscar winner Robert Wise's ad asking Academy members to vote for Martin Scorsese's Miramax release Gangs of New York back in early 2003? You don't? Well, apparently neither does Voltage Pictures producer Nicolas Chartier, whose The Hurt Locker is the favorite to win this year's Best Picture Academy [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-nicolas-chartier-email-48898/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jeremy Renner, Kathryn Bigelow: BAFTA After-Party Photo</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/jeremy-renner-kathryn-bigelow-34876/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/jeremy-renner-kathryn-bigelow-34876/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:11:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22327</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeremy Renner and BAFTA winner Kathryn Bigelow at the BAFTA Soho House Grey Goose after party held at the Grosvenor House Hotel on February 21 in London. Jeremy Renner was in the running in the Best Actor category for Bigelow's Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker, but he lost to Colin Firth's grieving gay college professor in A Single Man. Kathryn Bigelow became the first [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/jeremy-renner-kathryn-bigelow-34876/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER: BAFTA&#039;s Big Winner</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-bafta-kathryn-bigelow-87192/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-bafta-kathryn-bigelow-87192/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:13:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22227</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, Colin Firth, Carey Mulligan. Surprises and non-surprises at the BAFTAs, held Sunday evening at London's Royal Opera House. Mostly non-surprises. The fact that The Hurt Locker beat Avatar wasn't really a surprise. The Iraq War drama about a team of bomb disposal experts is also the odds-on favorite to win the Best Picture and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-bafta-kathryn-bigelow-87192/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Robert Pattinson: BAFTA Red Carpet; Christoph Waltz Credits Quentin Tarantino</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/robert-pattinson-bafta-red-carpet-871877/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/robert-pattinson-bafta-red-carpet-871877/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:19:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22204</guid> <description><![CDATA[[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsrWDcgKxk0[/youtube] In the clip above, you get to see Robert Pattinson, he of the upcoming Remember Me, arriving at the BAFTAs. Pattinson is only a presenter, but he may just as well have been the evening's top winner as far as fans were concerned. The Twilight Saga: New Moon wasn't even nominated for anything, but no matter. Colin Firth? Carey Mulligan? Andrea Arnold? Kathryn Bigelow? [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/robert-pattinson-bafta-red-carpet-871877/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>BAFTA 2010 Nominations</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/bafta-2010-nominations/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/bafta-2010-nominations/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:25:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21137</guid> <description><![CDATA[James Cameron's Avatar (WETA / 20th Century Fox) BEST FILM Avatar – James Cameron, Jon Landau An Education – Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer * The Hurt Locker – Nominees TBC Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire – Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness Up In the Air – Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM An Education – Amanda Posey, Finola [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/bafta-2010-nominations/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER, UP IN THE AIR: WGA Awards</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-up-in-the-air-wga-awards-41411/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-up-in-the-air-wga-awards-41411/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:30:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22182</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (top); Anna Kendrick, George Clooney in Up in the Air (bottom) The Writers Guild of America came up with some pretty shocking choices at their 2010 awards held this evening: Mark Boal's The Hurt Locker (directed by Kathryn Bigelow) for best original screenplay, Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner's Up in the Air (directed by Reitman) for best adapted screenplay, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-up-in-the-air-wga-awards-41411/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A PROPHET Beats AVATAR, THE HURT LOCKER: London Film Critics&#039; Awards</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/a-prophet-avatar-london-critics-awards-31387/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/a-prophet-avatar-london-critics-awards-31387/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:36:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22107</guid> <description><![CDATA[Avatar may be the king of the box office, but it surely wasn't king of anything at the London Film Critics' Circle Awards held this evening in, where else, London. The London Critics' best film of 2009? Jacques Audiard's prison drama A Prophet, the first French-made production to win the Circle's top award in its 30-year history. Starring European Film Award winner Tahar Rahim (above), [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/a-prophet-avatar-london-critics-awards-31387/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER, THE HANGOVER, THE COVE, UP: American Cinema Editors Awards</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-the-hangover-the-cove-28766/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-the-hangover-the-cove-28766/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:39:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21967</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker was voted the best edited feature film (drama) by the American Cinema Editors on Sunday night. Previously, The Hurt Locker won awards from the Producers Guild, the Directors Guild, and the Art Directors Guild. James Cameron's super blockbuster Avatar has thus far won only one guild award, for art direction in the &#34;fantasy&#34; category. Bob Murawski and Chris Innis were [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-the-hangover-the-cove-28766/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR, THE HURT LOCKER, SHERLOCK HOLMES: Art Directors Guild Award Winners</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/avatar-the-hurt-locker-sherlock-holmes-65656/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/avatar-the-hurt-locker-sherlock-holmes-65656/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:14:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21940</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sam Worthington, Stephen Lang in Avatar (top); Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (middle); Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law in Sherlock Holmes (bottom) Avatar, The Hurt Locker, and Sherlock Holmes were the motion picture winners at the Art Directors Guild Awards announced Saturday (Feb. 13) night at the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. The awards took place before an audience of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/avatar-the-hurt-locker-sherlock-holmes-65656/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>2010 Oscar Predictions: Best Director Kathryn Bigelow</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/best-director-kathryn-bigelow-oscar-56044/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/best-director-kathryn-bigelow-oscar-56044/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:08:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21910</guid> <description><![CDATA[Best Director Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker Other nominees: James Cameron, Avatar; Lee Daniels, Precious; Jason Reitman, Up in the Air; Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds. Kathryn Bigelow is about to become the first woman to win the Best Director Academy Award. She has already won the Directors Guild Award, while The Hurt Locker has won the Producers Guild Award. The Iraq War drama has also [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/best-director-kathryn-bigelow-oscar-56044/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>James Cameron, Scott Cooper, Mark Boal at WGA Panel</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/james-cameron-scott-cooper-mark-boal-87665/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/james-cameron-scott-cooper-mark-boal-87665/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:45:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21887</guid> <description><![CDATA[George Clooney in Up in the Air The Writers Guild of America's &#34;Beyond Words&#34; panel will be held at the Writers Guild Theater at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 8, two days before the announcement of the 2010 WGA Awards. Confirmed panelists include: Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker), James Cameron (Avatar), Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart), Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire), [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/james-cameron-scott-cooper-mark-boal-87665/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE BLIND SIDE, THE HURT LOCKER Producer Credits</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-blind-side-the-hurt-locker-oscar-producers-5501/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-blind-side-the-hurt-locker-oscar-producers-5501/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:39:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21698</guid> <description><![CDATA[Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock in John Lee Hancock's The Blind Side (top); Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie in Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (bottom) Producer credits for 82nd Academy Awards Best Picture nominees The Blind Side and The Hurt Locker have been determined by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Producers Branch Executive Committee. Credits are as follows: The Blind Side – Gil Netter, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-blind-side-the-hurt-locker-oscar-producers-5501/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR Box Office: TITANIC&#039;s Domestic Record Broken</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/avatar-box-office-titanic-record-broken-119/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/avatar-box-office-titanic-record-broken-119/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:21:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21618</guid> <description><![CDATA[On Monday (Feb 2), Avatar earned $2.7 million at the North American box office, falling below the $900 per screen mark ($879 to be exact), according to Box Office Mojo. That represents a relatively small 14.3 percent drop from the previous Monday. After 46 days out, Avatar’s domestic total is $598.4m. Once Tuesday figures are tallied, Avatar will have passed James Cameron’s own Titanic at [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/avatar-box-office-titanic-record-broken-119/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2010: Best Picture Nominees Box Office Grosses</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-best-picture-box-office-122/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-best-picture-box-office-122/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:48:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21599</guid> <description><![CDATA[James Cameron's Avatar (top); Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw in The Blind Side (middle); Carey Mulligan in An Education (bottom) To shore up the Oscar ceremony's dwindling television audience, the Academy wanted bigger fare at the 2010 Oscars. So, they expanded the Best Picture category to include ten films, hoping that some blockbuster or other would get a nomination. Indeed, it's true that several of the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-best-picture-box-office-122/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2010: Kathryn Bigelow vs. James Cameron</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-kathryn-bigelow-vs-james-cameron-776/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-kathryn-bigelow-vs-james-cameron-776/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:31:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21564</guid> <description><![CDATA[Among the Oscar 2010 curiosities are the following: Ex Husbands and Wives James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow (above) are both competing in the best director category. About two decades ago, they were married for a couple of years. Cameron's Avatar cost one trillion dollars to make and has earned about two trillion dollars at the box office. It's now the biggest, all-time, for all eternity [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-kathryn-bigelow-vs-james-cameron-776/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2010 Surprises: Joe Klotz, &quot;Loin de Paname,&quot; &amp; IL DIVO</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-loin-de-paname-il-divo-455/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-loin-de-paname-il-divo-455/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:41:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21560</guid> <description><![CDATA[Toni Servillo in Il Divo (top); Gérard Jugnot, Nora Arnezeder in Paris 36 (bottom) Oscar 2010: Very Few Surprises This is a follow-up to my previous post on the Oscar 2010 surprises (or lack thereof). So, if you hear someone like Sandra Bullock or Jeff Bridges or Mo'Nique or even Stanley Tucci or Penelope Cruz telling the media, &#34;Gee, whiz! By golly, this is all [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-loin-de-paname-il-divo-455/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2010: AVATAR, THE HURT LOCKER Lead the Pack</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-avatar-the-hurt-locker-908/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-avatar-the-hurt-locker-908/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:15:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21542</guid> <description><![CDATA[Avatar (top) and The Hurt Locker (above, lower photo, with Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie) are the leaders at the 2010 Academy Awards. James Cameron's sci-fi adventure and Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq War drama received nine nominations apiece, including best picture, best director, and best original screenplay. Curiously, Cameron and Bigelow were married for a couple of years about two decades ago. The other best picture [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-avatar-the-hurt-locker-908/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2010 Predictions: Best Cinematography, Original Score, Original Song, etc.</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-predictions-best-cinematography-883/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-predictions-best-cinematography-883/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:04:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21533</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (top); James Cameron, Sam Worthington on Avatar set (middle, upper); J.J. Abrams' Star Trek (middle, lower); Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend in The Young Victoria (bottom) Oscar 2010 Predictions: The Winners The 2010 Academy Award nominations will be announced in a few hours. So we're wrapping up our list of predictions in every category we can think of, from best cinematography [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-predictions-best-cinematography-883/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>7</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar Predictions: Best Film Editing</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-predictions-best-film-editing-190/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-predictions-best-film-editing-190/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:19:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21527</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160;2010 Oscar Predictions Best Film Editing Avatar District 9 The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Up in the Air Other possibilities: (500) Days of Summer, Star Trek, Nine, Up, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Cove, Julie &#38; Julia, It's Complicated. Not every American Cinema Editors' Eddie Award nominee will get a matching Academy Award nomination &#8212; even if only because the Eddies have many more motion-picture [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-predictions-best-film-editing-190/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar Predictions 2010: Best Original Screenplay</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-predictions-2010-best-original-screenplay-190/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-predictions-2010-best-original-screenplay-190/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:17:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21494</guid> <description><![CDATA[(500) Days of Summer, Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber The Hurt Locker, Mark Boal Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino A Serious Man, Joel and Ethan Coen Up, Pete Docter and Bob Petersen James Cameron, who failed to get a nomination for Titanic back in early 1998, may take the place of either the Coen brothers or the (500) Days of Summer screenwriters. It's true that [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-predictions-2010-best-original-screenplay-190/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>DGA Awards: Focus on Kathryn Bigelow&#039;s Gender</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/dga-awards-kathryn-bigelow-gender-133/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/dga-awards-kathryn-bigelow-gender-133/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:09:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21483</guid> <description><![CDATA[Perhaps it's a good thing that the Directors Guild Award ceremony wasn't televised. TV audiences were spared having to listen to Quentin Tarantino say &#34;both my testicles were totally tingling through the whole thing,&#34; following Brad Pitt's introduction to his Inglourious Basterds director. Or The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner saying &#8212; and I'm partly quoting The Wrap's Steve Pond's tweet here &#8212; that &#34;the only [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/dga-awards-kathryn-bigelow-gender-133/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kathryn Bigelow: First Woman DGA Winner (Narrative Feature)</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kathryn-bigelow-first-woman-dga-winner-881/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kathryn-bigelow-first-woman-dga-winner-881/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:04:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21481</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman to win the Directors Guild Award for narrative feature. The Iraq War drama can now be officially be considered the front runner in the Oscar race: last week, it won the Producers Guild Award as well. It has also won most film critics' awards to date. Bigelow's fellow nominees were Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds, Lee [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kathryn-bigelow-first-woman-dga-winner-881/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
