Beating out 10 other contenders, Kathryn Bigelow's action/war movie The Hurt Locker has won the Producers Guild of America award for best feature, beating out the big boys like Avatar, Star Trek and Inglorius Basterds.
Director/producer Kathryn Bigelow (along with her co-producers) won the Darryl F. Zanuck award Sunday night, the 24th, at the awards ceremonies at the Hollywood Palladium...
The Hurt Locker dominated the awards season in the major critics prizes including New York, Los Angeles and the National Society of Film Critics, but the PGA winner is usually also the Oscar winner for the producing category, so Bigelow's film stands to take at least one major category at the Academy Awards this spring.
On Saturday at a PGA panel, according to Variety.com, Bigelow recounted that obtaining permission to bring black powder, model guns and pyrotechnics into Jordan for the production represented a serious hurdle -- even to the point of considering smuggling via Beirut before a myriad of meetings with officials resolved the problem.
"I drank more tea than I ever have in my life," she added.
