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Marca Boal

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Mark Boal (nacido el 23 de enero de 1973) es un periodista, guionista y productor de cine estadounidense. Boal comenzó su carrera como periodista, escribiendo para publicaciones como Rolling Stone , The Village Voice , Salon y Playboy . Su artículo de 2004, "Muerte y deshonor", fue adaptado para la película En el valle de Elah , cuyo guion también coescribió.

En 2008, escribió y produjo The Hurt Locker , por la que ganó el Óscar al Mejor Guion Original y el Óscar a la Mejor Película . En 2012, escribió y produjo Zero Dark Thirty , colaborando nuevamente con la directora Kathryn Bigelow , sobre la búsqueda y muerte de Osama bin Laden . La película le valió nominaciones al Óscar al Mejor Guion Original y a la Mejor Película, y un premio del Sindicato de Guionistas de Estados Unidos al Mejor Guion Original . La pareja colaboró ​​por tercera vez en Detroit , de 2017 .

Boal ha ganado dos premios Óscar (con otras dos nominaciones), un premio BAFTA , dos premios del Sindicato de Guionistas de Estados Unidos y un premio del Sindicato de Productores de Estados Unidos , y también cuenta con cuatro nominaciones a los premios Globo de Oro .

Primeros años de vida

Mark Boal nació el 23 de enero de 1973 en la ciudad de Nueva York, hijo de Lillian Firestone y William Stetson Boal, Jr., productor de películas educativas. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Su medio hermano es Christopher Stetson Boal , dramaturgo y guionista. Su madre nació en una familia judía y su padre se convirtió al judaísmo. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Boal asistió a la Bronx High School of Science y formó parte del equipo de oratoria y debate de la escuela. Obtuvo su licenciatura en Filosofía en el Oberlin College en 1995. [ 5 ]

Carrera

Boal ha trabajado como periodista independiente y guionista. Ha contribuido con artículos a revistas como The Village Voice , Salon , [ 6 ] Rolling Stone y Playboy .

Boal's 2004 article "Death and Dishonor", about the 2003 murder of veteranRichard T. Davis after his return to the United States, was published in Playboy magazine. It inspired writer/director Paul Haggis, who adapted it for his fictional screenplay as the film In the Valley of Elah, which he also directed. Boal and Haggis have writing credit for the story.[7]

As a journalist, Boal was embedded with troops and bomb squads in 2004 during the Iraq War. He wrote an article about one of the bomb experts, Sergeant Jeffrey S. Sarver, in an article entitled, "The Man in the Bomb Suit",[8] published in September 2005 in Playboy magazine.

Boal went on to write an original screenplay, titled The Hurt Locker, about a fictional set of characters and events based on his interviews and observations in Iraq. He was also a producer for the 2009 film adaptation set in Iraq, about a U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) bomb squad. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, his business partner and co-producer.

In March 2010 (five days before the Academy Awards ceremony), Master Sergeant Jeffrey S. Sarver announced he was suing the producers of The Hurt Locker because Boal allegedly based the main character and "virtually all of the situations" in the film on events involving him. Sarver also claimed to have coined the phrase "the hurt locker".[9]

The producers' spokesperson has reiterated that the screenplay is fictional.[10] Citations for the phrase, "the hurt locker", date back to 1966 during the years of the Vietnam War. The phrase has been used among military members for decades.[11] In the December 8, 2011 issue of The Hollywood Reporter, it was reported that Sarver's lawsuit was thrown out by the court, and a federal judge ordered him to pay more than $180,000 in attorney fees.[12]

In March 2011, Boal published an article in Rolling Stone about the Maywand District murders titled: The Kill Team: How U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan Murdered Innocent Civilians.[13]

Boal wrote the film Zero Dark Thirty, which was released in December 2012. The film opened to much critical acclaim. Some commentators criticized its implication that torture revealed evidence that strongly contributed to the capture of bin Laden. Others, who deemed the production design inaccurate and oversimplified, criticized the film for its depiction of Pakistan, and found the Arabic–speaking locals in the film (Pakistan's national language is Urdu) to be problematic.[14]

Boal was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. He lost to Quentin Tarantino[15] who was nominated for Django Unchained. Boal was nominated for Writing in a Drama by the National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers for his work on Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.[16]

In 2021, it was announced that Boal was in negotiations with Netflix to write a film based on the GameStop short squeeze of January 2021.[17]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Awards

Referencias

  1. Índice de Marquis Who's Who de los libros de Who's Who . Marquis Who's Who, Incorporated. 11 de mayo de 1976. ISBN 9780837914039Recuperado el 11 de mayo de 2023 a través de Google Libros.
  2. "GILGAMESH - con Lillian Firestone, la madre del ganador del Oscar Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker)" . 9 de marzo de 2010. Recuperado el 11 de mayo de 2023 vía www.youtube.com.
  3. Federación Judía de Tampa "Judíos en las noticias: ¡Tiempo de los Oscar!" (consultado el 19 de marzo de 2017)
  4. 85.ª edición de los Premios Óscar
  5. Shauna Siggelkow, OFF THE CUFF: Mark Boal, Oscar WinnerArchived 2012-08-08 at the Wayback Machine, The Oberlin Review, September 27, 2010
  6. Boal, Mark (July 19, 1999). "One step ahead of the law". Salon.com.
  7. Mark Boal, "Death and Dishonor"Archived 2007-10-13 at the Wayback Machine, Playboy
  8. Boal, Mark (September 2005). "The Man in the Bomb Suit"(PDF). Playboy. Docs.justia.com. Archived from the original(PDF) on September 5, 2014. Retrieved August 23, 2012.
  9. " 'Hurt Locker' Producers Sued Days Before Oscars", ABC News, Retrieved March 6, 2010.
  10. Bernie Woodall, "U.S. bomb expert says 'Hurt Locker' stole his story", Reuters, 4 March 2010, accessed 8 March 2010
  11. "Sorry, Sgt. Sarver", Language Log, University of Pennsylvania, 5 March 2010, Retrieved March 6, 2010
  12. "Iraq War Vet Ordered to Pay $187,000 in Failed Lawsuit Against 'Hurt Locker' Producers". The Hollywood Reporter
  13. Boal, Mark (March 28, 2011). "The Kill Team: How U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan Murdered Innocent Civilians". Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  14. Zero Dark Thirty: View From Pakistan, The Guardian, January 27, 2013
  15. "The Oscars 2023 | 95th Academy Awards". ABC. Archived from the original on January 10, 2013. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  16. "NAVGTR Awards (2014)". IMDB.
  17. Fleming, Mike Jr. (February 2021). "Netflix Finalizing GameStop Stock Movie Package; Mark Boal In Talks To Write, Noah Centineo Attached, Scott Galloway To Consult". Deadline. Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 2, 2021.