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Awards And Honors	BAFTA (2010) • Academy Award (2010)

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A soldier in a bomb disposal suit runs from a massive explosion in a city street, with debris and smoke filling the background. Publicity still from the film The Hurt Locker.

Jeremy Renner as Sergeant William James in The Hurt Locker crouches in military uniform, holding a flashlight and looking intently ahead.

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