The Obama administration, it seems, has granted an unusual amount of access to the team behind TheHurtLocker (writer MarkBoal and director Kathryn Bigelow) for an upcoming campaign-season film about the mission to kill Osama bin Laden.
Thursday the Academy announced it would allow all four named producers on TheHurtLocker (Kathryn Bigelow, MarkBoal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shaprio) to accept should the film win.
Bigelow and screenwriter MarkBoal - who won Oscars in 2010 for TheHurtLocker - said last month the film depicted "a variety of controversial practices and intelligence methods".