Mark Boal was handed the Writers Guild of America award for best original screenplay Saturday night for his explosive drama script, “The Hurt Locker.”

The journalist-turned-movie-scribe spun his harrowing time embedded with the Explosive Ordnance Disposal team in Baghdad in 2004 into a taut action thriller directed by DGA award winner Kathryn Bigelow.

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The Battle-Scarred: Kathryn Bigelow with Jeremy Renner One film together: The Hurt Locker (2009).

The Hurt Locker is a clear-eyed depiction of the everyday tensions faced by U.S. soldiers during the uneasy American occupation of Iraq. Bigelow establishes an elegiac tone while filling the frame with one intense sequence after another. Playing Staff Sergeant William James, the leader of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit who may or may not have a death wish, Renner leaps out of a journeyman’s career to establish himself as a genuine star. At first, his character is unflappable to an almost comic degree—a jaunty rebel in the mold of countless cocky heroes of previous American war films. But his protective strategies fail to hold up under the strain of his work. The Hurt Locker’s sympathies lie entirely with the soldiers who must take the physical, emotional, and moral risks necessary to accomplish a difficult and dirty job. But the experience of Bigelow’s charming-at-first protagonist seems to mirror the larger experience of the country as a whole: We got more than we bargained for.

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Actor Jeremy Renner (L) and director Kathryn Bigelow accept the Best Film award onstage during the 15th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards

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