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The Hurt Locker is a 2008 American war film about a three-man United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team during the Iraq War. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a US bomb squad in Iraq. It stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, and Brian Geraghty. The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won six including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay for Boal and Best Director for Bigelow.