Best Picture: "The Hurt Locker"
"The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug." — Chris Hedges, "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning"
The screenplay for "The Hurt Locker," based on incidents journalist Mark Boal witnessed while embedded with U.S. forces in Iraq, tells of men jointly engaged in the most terrifying job in the world: defusing improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the midst of the insurgency in Baghdad.
Credit: Summit
