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If you've heard the name "Nicolas Chartier" before, it's probably because the Hurt Locker producer was banished from the Oscars after sending an earlier round of impulsive emails.

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Nicolas Chartier | Nicolas Cartier | Nicholas Chartier

Was prohibited of attending the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony after having contacted several members of the Academy so they would vote for his low-budget movie The Hurt Locker instead of the massive-budget Avatar.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1291566/

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Here's another gem to remember him by.

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I'm glad you're a moron who believes stealing is right. I hope your family and your kids end up in jail one day for stealing so maybe they can be taught the difference. Until then, keep being stupid, you're doing that very well. And please do not download, rent, or pay for my movies, I actually like smart and more important HONEST people to watch my films.

best regards,

Nicolas Chartier
Voltage Pictures, LLC

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Hurt Locker producer: criticizing our lawsuits makes you a moron and a thief
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/18/voltage-pictures-pre.html

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Despite being up for an Oscar in the Best Picture Category, The Hurt Locker film producer Nicolas Chartier (far right) won't be attending

http://technorati.com/entertainment/article/hurt-locker-producer-banne
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In 2010, he created some controversy after once again sending an abrasive letter to a person criticizing him for a plan to sue BitTorrent users that shared his movie. This was featured on the widely read blog BoingBoing.[3] The letter went on to call the author of the original email a "moron", wished him to have is house robbed and continued to say "I hope your family and your kids end up in jail one day for stealing".[7] This lawsuit, and the one initiated by his production company Voltage pictures for the prior film Far Cry, are now being contested by the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation on the grounds that it violates personal jurisdiction laws, lack of evidence, and improper joinder.[8] CNET featured an article about one of the people who received a formal demand for cash in which the man (who claims to have never downloaded the film or even know how to secure his own router) described the suit as "an obvious intimidation scam".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Chartier

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"The idea is that it's the first movie about the Iraq War that purports to show the experience of the soldiers. We wanted to show the kinds of things that soldiers go through that you can't see on CNN, and I don't mean that in a censorship-conspiracy way. I just mean the news doesn't actually put photographers in with units that are this elite."
-Mark Boal, producer of The Hurt Locker, a freelance journalist who was embedded with an American Explosive Ordnance Disposal bomb squad in the war in Iraq
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hurt_Locker
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887912/fullcredits#cast

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