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      Mark Boal

      Mark Boal

      Highest Rated: 97% The Hurt Locker (2008)

      Lowest Rated: 70% Triple Frontier (2019)

      Birthday: Jan 23, 1973

      Birthplace: New York, USA

      Though primarily a long-form journalist for major magazines, writer Mark Boal turned his harrowing weeks-long experience with the U.S. Army bomb squad in Iraq into the Oscar-winning drama, "The Hurt Locker" (2009), directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Prior to that film, Boal established himself as a top-level journalist who embedded himself with troops in the world's most dangerous places in order to unearth stories that would have otherwise remained hidden. His entry into Hollywood came by way of director Paul Haggis, who turned Boal's Playboy article "Death and Dishonor" into the critically acclaimed drama, "In the Valley of Elah" (2007). After spending time with the U.S. Army's bomb squad during the Iraq War, Boal collaborated with Bigelow on the critically lauded "The Hurt Locker," which won him the Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Boal continued his partnership with Bigelow - which was also rumored to have blossomed into something deeper - with his second solo screenwriting effort, "Zero Dark Thirty" (2012), which detailed the decade-long hunt for 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. Though he continued as a journalist, Boal had become with just two movies one of Hollywood's premier screenwriters.

      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      70% 58% Triple Frontier Screenwriter,
      Executive Producer
      - 2019
      85% 69% Path of Blood Executive Producer - 2018
      82% 79% Detroit Screenwriter,
      Producer
      $16.8M 2017
      91% 80% Zero Dark Thirty Screenwriter,
      Producer
      $95.7M 2012
      97% 84% The Hurt Locker Screenwriter,
      Producer
      $15.7M 2008

      TV

      Credit
      68% 55% Echo 3 Executive Producer,
      Creator
      2022-2023