List of accolades received by The Hurt Locker
Introduction + List of accolades received by ''The Hurt Locker'' alt=A light-skinned woman with blonde hair smiles while wearing a silver dress, with other people in the background.Kathryn Bigelow, director of ''The Hurt Locker'' at the 82nd Academy Awards Awards & nominations '''Award''' '''Won''' '''Nominated''';Academy Award;African-American Film Critics Association;Alliance of Women Film Journalists;American Cinema Editors;American Society of Cinematographers;Art Directors Guild;Austin Film Critics Association;Black Reel Awards;Boston Society of Film Critics;British Academy Film Awards;British Independent Film Awards;British Society of Cinematographers;Broadcast Film Critics;Chicago Film Critics Association;Cinema Audio Society Awards;Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association;Dallas International Film Festival;Denver Film Critics Society;Detroit Film Critics Society;Directors Guild of America Awards;Empire Awards;Evening Standard British Film Awards;Golden Frog;Golden Globe Awards;Gotham Independent Film Awards;Hollywood Film Festival;Hollywood Post Alliance Awards;Houston Film Critics Society;Independent Spirit Awards;International Cinephile Society Award ;Irish Film and Television Awards;Kansas City Film Critics Circle;London Film Critics' Circle;Los Angeles Film Critics Association;Motion Picture Sound Editors;Nantucket Film Festival;National Board of Review of Motion Pictures;National Society of Film Critics;NAACP Image Awards;New York Film Critics Circle;New York Online Film Critics;North Texas Film Critics Association;Online Film Critics Society;Palm Springs International Film Festival;Producers Guild of America Awards;San Francisco Film Critics Circle;Santa Barbara International Film Festival;Satellite Awards;Saturn Awards;Screen Actors Guild Awards;Seattle International Film Festival;ShoWest Triumph Award;Southeastern Film Critics Association;St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association;Toronto Film Critics Association;Utah Film Critics Association;Vancouver Film Critics Circle;Venice Film Festival;Washington DC Area Film Critics Association;Writers Guild of America;Total number of wins and nominations References''The Hurt Locker'' is a 2009 Iraq War film written by Mark Boal and directed by Kathryn Bigelow. The film premiered on September 4, 2008, at the 65th Venice International Film Festival, where it competed with ''The Wrestler'' for the Golden Lion award. It was released in Italy by Warner Bros. Pictures on October 10, 2008.Following a showing at the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival, Summit Entertainment picked the film up for distribution in the United States. ''The Hurt Locker'' was released in the United States on June 26, 2009, with a limited release at four theaters in Los Angeles and New York City. The film grossed over $145,000 on its opening weekend, averaging around $36,000 per theater. The following weekend, beginning July 3, the film grossed over $131,000 at nine theaters. It held the highest per-screen average of any movie playing theatrically in the United States for the first two weeks of its release, gradually moving into the top 20 chart. Summit Entertainment then released ''The Hurt Locker'' to more screens. The film grossed $49.2 million worldwide, and was a success against its budget of $15 million. ''The Hurt Locker'' has earned various awards and nominations, with the nominations in categories ranging from recognition of the screenplay to its direction and editing to the cast's acting performance. Kathryn Bigelow dominated the Best Director category at the critics' circles. The 67th Golden Globe Awards ceremony saw ''The Hurt Locker'' receive three nominations for Best Motion Picture Drama, Director and Screenplay, but it failed to win any. The film garnered nine nominations at the 82nd Academy Awards; the ceremony saw the film come away with six awards, including Best Motion Picture, Director and Original Screenplay. Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director and she also became only the fourth woman to be nominated in the category in the history of the awards. ''The Hurt Locker'' received two nominations at the 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards, for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor for Jeremy Renner and Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. The film won the Best Theatrical Motion Picture and Outstanding Directorial Achievement at the 21st Producers Guild of America Awards and the 62nd Directors Guild of America Awards respectively. The 35th LA Film Critics Association Awards, 75th NY Film Critics Circle Awards and the 44th National Society of Film Critics Association Awards saw the film win awards for Best Picture and Director. Both the American Film Institute and the Associated Press included ''The Hurt Locker'' in their Top Ten Films of 2009 lists. The Associated Press also placed the film at number six on their Top Ten Films of the Decade list.It became one of the seven films to win Best Picture from three out of four major U.S. film critics' groups ('''LA''', NBR, '''NY''', '''NSFC''') along with ''Nashville'', ''All the President's Men'', ''Terms of Endearment'', ''Goodfellas,'' ''Pulp Fiction,'' and ''Drive My Car''; and also the first film to win Academy Award for Best Picture since ''Terms of Endearment''.In 2020, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Awards and nominations  Award Date of ceremony Category Recipients Result Academy Award March 7, 2010 Best Picture Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Greg Shapiro and Nicolas Chartier  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  Best Actor Jeremy Renner  Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal  Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd  Best Film Editing Chris Innis and Bob Murawski  Best Original Score Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders  Best Sound Editing Paul N. J. Ottosson  Best Sound Mixing Paul N. J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett  African-American Film Critics Association December 14, 2009 Best Supporting Actor Anthony Mackie  Alliance of Women Film Journalists  December 15, 2009 Best Picture ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  Best Woman Director Kathryn Bigelow  Best Ensemble ''The Hurt Locker''  American Cinema Editors February 14, 2010 Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic Chris InnisBob Murawski  American Society of Cinematographers February 27, 2010Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases  Barry Ackroyd  Art Directors Guild February 13, 2010 Excellence in Production Design for a Contemporary Film Karl Juliusson  Austin Film Critics Association December 15, 2009 Best Picture ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Black Reel AwardsFebruary 13, 2010  Best Supporting Actor Anthony Mackie  Boston Society of Film Critics  December 13, 2009 Best Film ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  Best Actor Jeremy Renner  Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd  Best Film Editing Chris InnisBob Murawski British Academy Film Awards February 21, 2010 Best Film Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Greg Shapiro, Nicolas Chartier  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal  Best Actor Jeremy Renner  Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd  Best Editing Chris InnisBob Murawski  Best Sound Ray Beckett, Paul N. J. Ottosson, Craig Stauffer  Best Special Visual Effects Richard Stutsman British Independent Film Awards December 6, 2010 Best Foreign Film ''The Hurt Locker''  British Society of Cinematographers July 18, 2010 Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd   Broadcast Film Critics January 15, 2010 Best Picture ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal  Best Actor Jeremy Renner  Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd  Best Editing Chris InnisBob Murawski  Best Sound Ray Beckett, Paul Ottosson  Best Action Film ''The Hurt Locker''  Chicago Film Critics Association December 21, 2009 Best Picture ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal  Best Actor Jeremy Renner  Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd  Cinema Audio Society Awards February 27, 2010 Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures Paul N.J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett  Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association December 16, 2009 Best Picture ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  Best Actor Jeremy Renner  Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd  Dallas International Film Festival March 26, 2009 Dallas Star Award Kathryn Bigelow  Denver Film Critics Society January 24, 2010 Best Film ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal  Best Acting Ensemble ''The Hurt Locker''  Detroit Film Critics Society December 11, 2009 Best Film ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  Directors Guild of America Awards  January 30, 2010 Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures  Kathryn Bigelow Empire AwardsMarch 28, 2010 Best Film ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  Best Thriller The Hurt Locker  Evening Standard British Film Awards February 8, 2010 Best Technical Achievement Barry Ackroyd  Golden Frog November 29, 2008  Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd  Golden Globe Awards January 17, 2010 Best Director  Kathryn Bigelow Best Motion Picture - Drama  ''The Hurt Locker''   Best Screenplay  Mark Boal  Gotham Independent Film Awards November 30, 2009 Best Feature ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Ensemble Performance ''The Hurt Locker''  Breakthrough Actor Jeremy Renner   Hollywood Film Festival  October 26, 2009 Actor of the Year Jeremy Renner  Director of the Year Kathryn Bigelow  Hollywood Post Alliance AwardsNovember 12, 2010 Outstanding Editing in a Feature Film Chris InnisBob Murawski  Houston Film Critics Society December 19, 2009 Best Picture ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd  Independent Spirit Awards February 21, 2009 Best Male Lead Jeremy Renner  Best Supporting Male Anthony Mackie  International Cinephile Society Award February 17, 2010 Best Editing Chris InnisBob Murawski Irish Film and Television AwardsFebruary 20, 2010 Best International Film ''The Hurt Locker''  Kansas City Film Critics Circle January 3, 2010 Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  London Film Critics' Circle February 18, 2010 Film of the Year ''The Hurt Locker''  Director of the Year Kathryn Bigelow  Los Angeles Film Critics Association December 14, 2009 Best Film''The Hurt Locker''  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  Motion Picture Sound Editors  February 20, 2010 Best Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film  ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film ''The Hurt Locker''  Nantucket Film Festival June 21, 2009 Best Screenplay Mark Boal  National Board of Review January 12, 2010 Best Male Breakthrough Performance Jeremy Renner National Society of Film CriticsJanuary 3, 2010 Best Picture ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  Best Actor Jeremy Renner  Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd  NAACP Image Awards February 26, 2010 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Anthony Mackie  New York Film Critics  December 14, 2009 Best Film ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  New York Online Film Critics December 13, 2009 Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  North Texas Film Critics Association January 11, 2010 Best Director Kathryn Bigelow Online Film CriticsJanuary 5, 2010 Best Picture ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal  Best Actor Jeremy Renner  Best Supporting Actor Anthony Mackie  Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd  Best Editing Chris InnisBob Murawski  Palm Springs International Film Festival January 7, 2010 Male Breakthrough Performance Jeremy Renner Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 24, 2010Best Theatrical Motion Picture Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Greg Shapiro, Nicolas Chartier  San Francisco Film Critics Circle December 14, 2009 Best Picture ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  Santa Barbara International Film Festival February 4, 2010 Outstanding Director of the Year Kathryn Bigelow  Satellite Awards  December 20, 2009 Best Drama Film ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  Best Actor Jeremy Renner  Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal  Best Editing Chris InnisBob Murawski  Saturn Awards  June 24, 2010 Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  Screen Actors Guild Awards January 23, 2010 Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Jeremy Renner  Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture ''The Hurt Locker''  Seattle International Film Festival June 14, 2009 Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  ShoWest Triumph Award April 2, 2010 Outstanding Direction Kathryn Bigelow Southeastern Film Critics December 14, 2009 Best Film ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal  Best Actor Jeremy Renner  St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association December 21, 2009 Best Film ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  Best Screenplay Mark Boal  Best Actor Jeremy Renner  Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd Toronto Film Critics AssociationDecember 16, 2009 Best Picture ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  Utah Film Critics Association December 18, 2009 Best Picture ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Actor Jeremy Renner Vancouver Film Critics CircleJanuary 13, 2010 Best Film ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Director Kathryn Bigelow  Best Screenplay Mark Boal  Best Actor Jeremy Renner  Venice Film Festival August 27, 2008 Golden Lion ''The Hurt Locker''  Gucci Group Award Mark Boal  SIGNIS Award ''The Hurt Locker''   La Navicella – Venezia Cinema Award ''The Hurt Locker''  Human Rights Film Network Award ''The Hurt Locker''  Washington D.C. Area Film CriticsDecember 7, 2009Best Film  ''The Hurt Locker''  Best Original Screenplay  Mark Boal Best Director  Kathryn Bigelow Best Actor Jeremy Renner  Best Actor in a Supporting Role  Anthony Mackie Best Breakthrough Performance Jeremy Renner   Best Ensemble ''The Hurt Locker''  Writers Guild of America February 20, 2010 Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal
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