Nicolas Chartier (right) with associate Hurt Locker producers Mark Boal (left) and Greg Shapiro (second from right), and senior manager Kathryn Bigelow, with their Baftas for most appropriate picture. Photograph: Daniel Deme/EPA
A writer on Oscar frontrunner The Hurt Locker has been criminialized from Sunday night"s awards rite for campaigning plainly opposite a opposition film. Nicolas Chartier, who financed the $15m Iraq fight play himself, sent emails propelling Academy electorate to opinion for his movie and "not a $500m film", a transparent anxiety to James Cameron"s Avatar, that is additionally in the using for the most appropriate design prize.
The Hurt Locker Production year: 2008 Country: USA Cert (UK): fifteen Runtime: 131 mins Directors: Kathryn Bigelow Cast: Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo, David Morse, Guy Pearce, Jeremy Renner, Ralph Fiennes More on this movieThe Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences pronounced yesterday that Chartier was censured by the senior manager cabinet of the producers" bend during a special event on Monday for "an reliable lapse". Academy manners demarcate "casting a disastrous or derogative light on a competing film". For his pains, Chartier will be barred from the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles this weekend, nonetheless he will embrace a statuette after if The Hurt Locker takes the gong.
The move is being seen as a high-profile bid to military overzealous awards campaigning, though
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