Read the latest news and updates on your favorite movies, tv shows stars. Moviefone is your source for entertainment, movie, DVD, online streaming TV news. The Official video page of the National Hockey League with the latest highlights, recaps, and interviews. Patriots Day 2016 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Zero Dark Thirty Wikipedia. Zero Dark Thirty is a 2. American politicalaction thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. Billed as the greatest manhunt in history, the film dramatizes the nearly decade long international manhunt for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after the September 1. United States. This search eventually leads to the discovery of his compound in Pakistan and the military raid that resulted in bin Ladens death on May 2, 2. Day Zero Full Movie' title='Day Zero Full Movie' />The film stars Jessica Chastain as Maya, a fictional CIAintelligence analyst, with Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Ehle, Mark Strong, Kyle Chandler, dgar Ramrez, and James Gandolfini in supporting roles. It was produced by Boal, Bigelow, and Megan Ellison, and was independently financed by Ellisons Annapurna Pictures. The film premiered in Los Angeles on December 1. January 1. 1, 2. 01. Zero Dark Thirty received widespread critical acclaim and appeared on 9. It was nominated in five categories at the 8. Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Chastain, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing, and won the award for Best Sound Editing. The film also earned Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Motion Picture Drama, Best Director, and Best Screenplay, with Chastain winning the award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama. The films depiction of so called enhanced interrogation generated controversy, with some critics describing it as pro torture propaganda, as the interrogations are shown producing reliably useful and accurate information. Acting CIA director Michael Morell stated, The film creates the strong impression that the enhanced interrogation techniques. Laden. That impression is false. Other critics described it as an anti torture exposure of interrogation practices. Republican Congressman Peter T. King charged that the filmmakers were given improper access to classified materials, which they denied. An unreleased draft IG report published by the Project on Government Oversight, in June 2. CIA Director Leon Panetta discussed classified information during an awards ceremony for the SEAL team that carried out the raid on the bin Laden compound. Unbeknownst to Panetta, screenwriter Mark Boal was among the 1,3. Maya is a U. S. Central Intelligence Agency analyst, recruited out of high school around 1. Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. In 2. 00. 3 she is stationed at the U. S. embassy in Pakistan. She and fellow officer Dan, attend the blacksite interrogations of Ammar, a detainee with suspected links to several of the 2. September 1. 1 attacks, who is subjected to approved torture interrogation techniques. Ammar provides unreliable information on a suspected attack in Saudi Arabia, but does reveal to Maya the previously unknown name of the personal courier for bin Laden, Abu Ahmed al Kuwaiti. Other detainee intelligence connects courier traffic by Abu Ahmed between Abu Faraj al Libbi and bin Laden. In 2. 00. 5, Faraj denies knowing about a courier named Abu Ahmed she interprets this as an attempt by Faraj to conceal the importance of Abu Ahmed. In 2. 00. 9 during the Camp Chapman attack, Mayas fellow officer and friend Jessica is killed. On the same day a case manager that liked the Abu Ahmed lead, shares with her an interrogation with a Jordanian detainee claiming to have personally buried Abu Ahmed in 2. Maya learns what the CIA was told five years earlier, that Morocco caught Ibrihim Sayeed traveling under the name of Abu Ahmed al Kuwaiti. Watch City Of Life And Death Online Facebook on this page. Realizing her lead may be alive, Maya contacts Dan, now a senior officer at the CIA headquarters. She speculates that the CIAs photograph of Abu Ahmed is that of his brother, Habeeb, who was killed in Afghanistan. Maya says that their beards and native clothes make all of the brothers look alike. This would explain Ammars account of Abu Ahmeds death in 2. Maya wants the telephone number of Ibrihim Sayeeds mother, and she gets it from a Kuwaiti prince for the price of a Lamborghini. CIA operatives use electronic methods to pinpoint a caller in a vehicle who persistently exhibits tradecraft behaviors that delay confirmation of his identity. The vehicle is physically tracked to a large urban compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, near the Pakistan Military Academy. Gunmen attack Maya while she is in her vehicle the action indicates to the agency that her cover is blown, so she is recalled to Washington, D. C. When the compound is put under surveillance, the habits and culture of the inhabitants are analyzed but no conclusive photographic identification of bin Laden is obtained. The Presidents National Security Advisor tasks the CIA with creating a plan to capture or kill bin Laden if he can be found. Two stealth helicopters from Area 5. Armys 1. 60th Special Operations Aviation Regiment to enter Pakistan, insert members of DEVGRU and the CIAs SADSOG and raid the compound. Before briefing President Barack Obama, the CIA Director holds a meeting of his senior officers, who assess that bin Laden being there is a chance of 6. Maya, also in attendance, uses the habits intelligence to shore up her conclusion to 1. Laden is there. The raid is approved and is executed on May 2, 2. One of the helicopters crashes, the SEALs gain entry and kill a number of people within the compoundamong them a man in the building who is believed to be bin Laden. At a U. S. base in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Maya visually confirms the identity of the corpse. Maya is last seen boarding a military transport to return to the U. S. and sitting in its vast interior as its only passenger. The pilot asks her where she wants to go, but she does not reply. As the planes cargo door closes, Maya begins to cry softly. CIAJessica Chastain as Maya, a CIAintelligence analyst1. Jason Clarke as Dan, a CIA intelligence officer. Jennifer Ehle as Jessica, a senior CIA analyst. Mark Strong as George, a senior CIA supervisor1. Kyle Chandler as Joseph Bradley, Islamabad CIA Station Chief. James Gandolfini as CIA Director. Harold Perrineau as Jack, a CIA analyst. Mark Duplass as Steve, a CIA analyst. Fredric Lehne as The Wolf, a CIA section chief. John Barrowman as Jeremy, a CIA executive. Jessie Collins as Debbie, a CIA analystdgar Ramrez as Larry, a CIA SADSOG operative. Fares Fares as Hakim, a CIA SADSOG operative. Scott Adkins as John, a CIA SADSOG operative. US Navy. Other. ProductioneditThe films working title was For God and Country. The title Zero Dark Thirty was officially confirmed at the end of the films teaser trailer. Bigelow has explained that its a military term for 3. WritingeditBigelow and Boal had initially worked on and finished a screenplay centered on the December 2. Battle of Tora Bora, and the long, unsuccessful efforts to find Osama bin Laden in the region. The two were about to begin filming when news broke that bin Laden had been killed. They immediately shelved the film they had been working on and redirected their focus, essentially starting from scratch. But a lot of the homework Id done for the first script and a lot of the contacts I made, carried over, Boal remarked during an interview with Entertainment Weekly. He added, The years I had spent talking to military and intelligence operators involved in counter terrorism was helpful in both projects. Some of the sourcing I had developed long, long ago continued to be helpful for this version. Along with painstakingly recreating the historic night vision raid on the Abbottabad compound, the script and the film stress the little reported role of the tenacious young female CIA officer who tracked down Osama bin Laden. Screenwriter Boal said that while researching for the film, I heard through the grapevine that women played a big role in the CIA in general and in this team.