The Hurt Locker ceremony, it won six Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director for Bigelow (the first woman to win this award), and Best Original Screenplay for Boal. "The Hurt Locker" is based on accounts of Mark Boal, a freelance journalist who was embedded with an American bomb squad in the war in Iraq for two weeks in 2004. The director Kathryn Bigelow was familiar with Boal's work before his experiences, having adapted one of his "Playboy" articles as the short-lived television series "The Inside" in 2002. When Boal was embedded with the squad, he accompanied its members 10 to 15 times a
Hurt (2009 film) Hurt (2009 film) Hurt is a dramatic Gothic horror-thriller film released in 2009. The film was directed by Barbara Stepansky and stars actors Melora Walters, William Mapother, Sofia Vassilieva, and Jackson Rathbone. The Coltrane family's life has been devastated by an untimely death. Widowed Helen Coltrane (Melora Walters – "Big Love"), along with her teenage son (Jackson Rathbone – "Twilight") and daughter, are given shelter by her reclusive and quirky gun-loving brother-in-law. As they grapple with the reality of their shattered, altered life and twist of fate, coincidence steps in with a seemingly lovely foster child (Sofia Vassilieva), who appears