Zero Dark Thirty (2012)






CIA investigator Maya, posted to the US embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan spends almost a decade to track down Osama bin Laden. Following a courier she believes she has found bin Laden, but the CIA and the White House want to be sure and react slow. Eventually the compound is attacked by a Navy SEAL team and Osama bin Laden is killed.

Nominated for five Academy Awards:
Best Picture
Best Actress - Jessica Chastain
Best Original Screenplay
Best Sound Editing
Best Film Editing



Articles on Zero Dark Thirty

Phil de Semlyen, Bigelow, in: Empire, nr. 284 (February), 2013 pp. 106-111

Michael Atkinson, Duty calls, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 2 (February), 2013 pp. 30-33

Reviews

Kim Newman, Zero Dark Thirty, in: Empire, nr. 284 (February), 2013 pp. 57

Guy Westwell, Zero Dark Thirty, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 2 (February), 2013 pp. 86-87

Hans Schifferle, Zero Dark Thirty, in: epd Film, nr. 1, 2013 pp. 36