The Academy liked this Iraq film for being "apolitical." In fact it's the opposite: an endorsement of the politically chauvinistic view that the world is a stage for Americans.
Jeremy Scahill, TheNation.com AlterNet: World. January 12, 2010.
In interviews, director Kathryn Bigelow has mentioned the presence of Blackwater men on set, but screenwriter Mark Boal denies that the mercenary firm was hired.
