Best Picture: "The Hurt Locker"
By CBSNews.com producer David Morgan
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.
James traces this wire, pulling it out of the ground, inch by inch, like extracting a buried root.
The more he pulls, the more wire gets revealed. It doesn't seem to end.
Overhead, a young factory worker on a high balcony studies James as he unearths the wire.
Kathryn Bigelow
Jeremy Renner
Jeremy Renner, who is nominated for Best Actor for "Hurt Locker," was featured in "28 Weeks Later," as well as "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," "Take," "North Country" (opposite Charlize Theron), "S.W.A.T.," and "Dahmer."Jeremy Renner Recalls Explosive Role Jeremy Renner Photos