List of accolades received by The Hurt Locker

The Hurt Locker is a 2009 Iraq War film written by Mark Boal and directed by Kathryn Bigelow.^[1] The film premiered on September 4, 2008, at the 65th Venice International Film Festival, where it competed with The Wrestler for the Golden Lion award. It was released in Italy by Warner Bros. Pictures on October 10, 2008.^[2] Following a showing at the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival, Summit Entertainment picked the film up for distribution in the United States.^[3] The Hurt Locker was released in the United States on June 26, 2009, with a limited release at four theaters in Los Angeles and New York City.^[4] The film grossed over $145,000 on its opening weekend, averaging around $36,000 per theater. The following weekend, beginning July 3, the film grossed over $131,000 at nine theaters.^[5] It held the highest per-screen average^{[Note 1]} of any movie playing theatrically in the United States for the first two weeks of its release, gradually moving into the top 20 chart.^[7][8] Summit Entertainment then released The Hurt Locker to more screens. The film grossed $49.2 million worldwide, and was a success against its budget of $15 million.^[7]

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List of accolades received by The Hurt Locker

Kathryn Bigelow, director of The Hurt Locker at the 82nd Academy Awards
Awards & nominations Award Won Nominated Academy Award 6 9 African-American Film Critics Association 1 1 Alliance of Women Film Journalists 4 4 American Cinema Editors 1 1 American Society of Cinematographers 0 1 Art Directors Guild 1 1 Austin Film Critics Association 3 3 Black Reel Awards 1 1 Boston Society of Film Critics 5 5 British Academy Film Awards 6 8 British Independent Film Awards 0 1 British Society of Cinematographers 1 1 Broadcast Film Critics 2 8 Chicago Film Critics Association 5 5 Cinema Audio Society Awards 1 1 Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association 0 4 Dallas International Film Festival 1 1 Denver Film Critics Society 2 4 Detroit Film Critics Society 0 2 Directors Guild of America Awards 1 1 Empire Awards 0 3 Evening Standard British Film Awards 1 1 Golden Frog 0 1 Golden Globe Awards 0 3 Gotham Independent Film Awards 2 3 Hollywood Film Festival 2 2 Hollywood Post Alliance Awards 0 1 Houston Film Critics Society 3 3 Independent Spirit Awards 0 2 International Cinephile Society Award 1 1 Irish Film and Television Awards 1 1 Kansas City Film Critics Circle 1 1 London Film Critics' Circle 1 2 Los Angeles Film Critics Association 2 2 Motion Picture Sound Editors 0 2 Nantucket Film Festival 1 1 National Board of Review of Motion Pictures 1 1 National Society of Film Critics 3 4 NAACP Image Awards 0 1 New York Film Critics Circle 2 2 New York Online Film Critics 1 1 North Texas Film Critics Association 1 1 Online Film Critics Society 4 7 Palm Springs International Film Festival 1 1 Producers Guild of America Awards 1 1 San Francisco Film Critics Circle 2 2 Santa Barbara International Film Festival 1 1 Satellite Awards 4 5 Saturn Awards 0 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards 0 2 Seattle International Film Festival 1 1 ShoWest Triumph Award 1 1 Southeastern Film Critics Association 1 4 St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association 1 5 Toronto Film Critics Association 1 2 Utah Film Critics Association 0 2 Vancouver Film Critics Circle 1 4 Venice Film Festival 4 5 Washington DC Area Film Critics Association 2 7 Writers Guild of America 1 1
Total number of wins and nominations
Totals	90	154
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The Hurt Locker has earned various awards and nominations, with the nominations in categories ranging from recognition of the screenplay to its direction and editing to the cast's acting performance. Kathryn Bigelow dominated the Best Director category at the critics' circles. The 67th Golden Globe Awards ceremony saw The Hurt Locker receive three nominations for Best Motion Picture Drama, Director and Screenplay, but it failed to win any. The film garnered nine nominations at the 82nd Academy Awards; the ceremony saw the film come away with six awards, including Best Motion Picture, Director and Original Screenplay. Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director and she also became only the fourth woman to be nominated in the category in the history of the awards.^[9]

The Hurt Locker received two nominations at the 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards, for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor for Jeremy Renner and Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. The film won the Best Theatrical Motion Picture and Outstanding Directorial Achievement at the 21st Producers Guild of America Awards and the 62nd Directors Guild of America Awards respectively. The 35th LA Film Critics Association Awards, 75th NY Film Critics Circle Awards and the 44th National Society of Film Critics Association Awards saw the film win awards for Best Picture and Director. Both the American Film Institute and the Associated Press included The Hurt Locker in their Top Ten Films of 2009 lists.^[10][11] The Associated Press also placed the film at number six on their Top Ten Films of the Decade list.^[12]

It became one of the seven films to win Best Picture from three out of four major U.S. film critics' groups (LA, NBR, NY, NSFC) along with Nashville, All the President's Men, Terms of Endearment, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, and Drive My Car; and also the first film to win Academy Award for Best Picture since Terms of Endearment.

In 2020, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".^[13]