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Kathryn Bigelow?s ?Zero Dark Thirty? grabs 4 Golden Globes nominations
NEW DELHI :In what is popularly termed as ?the road to Oscars?, the prestigious Golden Globes announced its nominations for the Annual 70th Golden Globes Awards which is to be held Sunday January 13th 2013, in Los Angeles, USA. The nominees were announced on Thursday 13th December and to no one?s surprise Kathryn Bigelow? Zero Dark Thirty starring another Academy nominee Jessica Chastain, gathered 4 nominations. These include Best Motion Picture ? Drama, Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama)- Jessica Chastain, Best Director (Motion Picture)- Kathryn Bigelow and Best Screenplay (Motion Picture). The nominations for Zero Dark Thirty from Golden Globes come in the wake of the film already bagging awards from New York Film Critics Circle and National Board Review of Motion Pictures for Best Director (Kathryn Bigelow), Best Lead Actress (Jessica Chastain) and Cinematography (Greig Fraser). The thrilling crime mystery movie, which chronicles the decade long hunt for Al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden after the 9/11 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy SEAL Team 6 in 2011, is already being rumored at being a front runner for the Oscars. Zero Dark Thirty?s screenplay by Mark Boal has also received brilliant reviews from critics and is being called a taut, gritty and superbly visualized narrative neatly packed as an action thriller by a master storyteller who knows their craft. PVR Pictures, the distribution arm of PVR Group is bringing this thrilling crime suspense drama, Zero Dark Thirty to India on February
1st 2013.
? Releasing date: 1st February 2013
? Directors: Kathryn Bigelow
? Screenplay: Mark Boal
? Producer: Colin Wilson, Ted Schipper, and Greg Shapiro
? Starring: Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer
Ehle, Mark Strong, Kyle Chandler, and Edgar Ramirez
Zero Dark Thirty: Detailed Summary
The hunt for Osama bin Laden preoccupied the world and two American presidential administrations for more than a decade. But in the end, it took a small, dedicated team of CIA operatives to track him down. Every aspect of their mission was shrouded in secrecy. Though some of the details have since been made public, many of the most significant parts of the intelligence operation??including the central role played by that team??are brought to the screen for the first time in a nuanced and gripping new film by the Oscar?-winning creative duo of Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal. Their account of bin Laden?s pursuit and capture, vivid yet faithful
to the facts, takes the viewer inside the hubs of power and to the front lines of this historic mission, culminating in the special
operations assault on a mysterious, suburban Pakistani compound.
But it is the lead-up to the raid that truly distinguishes Zero Dark Thirty from other accounts. The quest to find bin Laden was fraught with danger from the start, and not every U.S. operative survived. Some intelligence experts came to believe that the assignment was impossible to carry out, but on the ground a determined team of analysts and interrogators defied the odds and proved them wrong. For the first time, their struggle to find Osama bin Laden is told on the screen in electrifying detail. The initial, self-imposed creative challenge Bigelow and Boal faced in developing Zero DarkThirty was how to tell this multifaceted story in the compressed time frame of a motion picture. The film encompasses sweeping events spanning nearly a decade, journeying across multiple countries and involving a precisely chosen cast of hundreds along with a devoted crew whose objective was to capture the on-the-ground reality of this mission as truthfully and viscerally as possible. To that end, it pulls no punches in documenting the moral lines??including torture??that were crossed. The intention was to create a cinematic work with the sweep and human emotion of a historical novel.
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