Director Kathryn Bigelow, whose The Hurt Locker won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay, tells us the story of the multi-year, global hunt for Osama bin Laden, seen through the eyes of CIA analyst Maya.

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The Obama administration, it seems, has granted an unusual amount of access to the team behind The Hurt Locker (writer Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow) for an upcoming campaign-season film about the mission to kill Osama bin Laden.

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"The Kathryn Bigelow" effect was coined by some industry observers who believed that her win for "The Hurt Locker, " the first Oscar for a woman director, would open doors of opportunity for females behind the camera.

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