Hurt Locker Producer Banned From Oscars
Despite being up for an Oscar in the Best Picture Category, The Hurt Locker film producer Nicolas Chartier (far right) won't be attending. Seems he broke some rules and the Academy is laying down the law.
Chartier sent out letters to his friends in the film industry, just one week before the Oscars, as part of a "promotional" campaign. The LATimes has a copy of the letter Chartier sent:
I hope all is well with you. I just wanted to write you and say I hope you liked Hurt Locker and if you did and want us to win, please tell (name deleted) and your friends who vote for the Oscars, tell actors, directors, crew members, art directors, special effects people, if everyone tells one or two of their friends, we will win and not a $500M film, we need independent movies to win like the movies you and I do, so if you believe The Hurt Locker is the best movie of 2010, help us!
I'm sure you know plenty of people you've worked with who are academy members whethere a publicist, a writer, a sound engineer, please take 5 minutes and contact them. Please call one or two persons, everything will help!best regards,
Nicolas Chartier Voltage Pictures
Those analyzing the letter and its intent are pretty sure Chartier is campaigning directly against the monster hit Avatar, and while he doesn't mention the film by name, the implications are pretty clear. So are the rules, which Chartier's letter violates. According to CNN, the letter was in violation of rules by "casting a negative or derogatory light on a competing film." Considering Chartier didn't spell out which film, it's a bit ambiguous, but apparently not ambiguous enough.
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