The Hurt Locker took the Oscars by storm, winning six of the major film honors, including best movie and best director for Kathryn Bigelow who became the first woman to win that award.The drama about a squad of bomb defusing specialists and the emotional toll war takes on them also secured writer Mark Boal the Academy Award for best original screenplay, and claimed honors for film editing, sound editing, and mixing.
Hurt Locker and Bigelow won Oscars over stiff competition from her ex-husband James Cameron, whose sci-fi adventure Avatar; is the top-grossing movie ever with $2.5 billion at box offices and was seen as a favorite for best movie. Bigelow said, “This really is, there’s no other way to describe it, it’s the moment of a lifetime.”
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