LONDON, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- "The Hurt Locker" was named best film Sunday and won five other prizes when the British Academy of Film and Television Arts handed out its annual BAFTA Awards.
Kathryn Bigelow won the directing award and Mark Boal won for best original screenplay for the story of an elite U.S. military bomb squad in Iraq. "The Hurt Locker" also won for editing, cinematography and sound.