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
John Hurt During Terry Gilliam's eighth attempt at making his infamous development hell project "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote", Hurt was set to star as Don Quixote alongside Adam Driver. However, his declining health and eventual death led to project to be cancelled yet again; he was eventually replaced by Jonathan Pryce. Hurt was due to appear alongside Ben Kingsley in a film entitled "Broken Dream", to be directed by Neil Jordan. In 2015, Hurt provided the voice of main antagonist Sailor John in the "Thomas & Friends" film "Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure" along with Eddie Redmayne (Ryan) and