Zero Dark Thirty

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A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.

About Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty is a 2012 American political action thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. Produced by Boal, Bigelow, and Megan Ellison, and independently financed by Ellison's Annapurna Pictures, the film dramatizes the nearly decade-long international manhunt for Osama bin Laden, leader of the terrorist network al-Qaeda, after the September 11 attacks, which culminates in the discovery of his compound in Pakistan and the U.S. military raid where bin Laden was killed on May 2, 2011. It stars Jessica Chastain as Maya, a fictional CIA intelligence analyst, with Jason Clarke and Joel Edgerton appearing in supporting roles. Widely released on January 11, 2013, by Columbia Pictures through Sony Pictures Releasing, following its premiere in Los Angeles on December 10, 2012, Zero Dark Thirty received critical acclaim for its acting, direction, screenplay, sound design, and editing, and was a box office success, grossing $132 million worldwide. It appeared on 95 critics' top ten lists of 2012 and received five nominations at the 85th Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actress for Chastain, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, and Best Sound Editing, which it won in a tie with Skyfall (which Sony also distributed); it also earned four Golden Globe Award nominations, including Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) for Chastain, who won.…

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