Talk:Nicolas Chartier

Contents of emails
In case someone feels sufficiently Bold to include Chartier's emails to this article, here they are:

From: "Nicolas Chartier" Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010

I hope all is well with you. I just wanted to write you and say I hope you liked Hurt Locker and if you did and want us to win, please tell (name deleted) and your friends who vote for the Oscars, tell actors, directors, crew members, art directors, special effects people, if everyone tells one or two of their friends, we will win and not a $500M film, we need independent movies to win like the movies you and I do, so if you believe The Hurt Locker is the best movie of 2010, help us!

I'm sure you know plenty of people you've worked with who are academy members whethere a publicist, a writer, a sound engineer, please take 5 minutes and contact them. Please call one or two persons, everything will help!

best regards,

Nicolas Chartier Voltage Pictures [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/season/2010/02/with-one-week-to-go-are-oscar-campaigns-staying-on-message-by-pete-hammond.html L.A. Times, Are Oscar campaigns staying on message? February 23, 2010 ]


 * Apology:

From: Nicolas Chartier   Date: Wed, 24, Feb 2010

My email to you was out of line and not in the spirit of the celebration of cinema that the acknowledgement is. I was even more wrong, both personally and professionally, to ask for your help in encouraging others to vote for the film and to comment on another movie. As passionate as I am about the film we made, this was an extremely inappropriate email to send, and something that the Academy strongly disapproves of in the rules.

My naivete, ignorance of the rules and plain stupidity as a first time nominee is not an excuse for this behavior and I strongly regret it. Being nominated for an Academy Award is the ultimate honor and I should have taken the time to read the rules.

I am emailing each person this very same statement asking to retract my previous email and requesting that you please disregard it.

I truly apologize to anyone I have offended.

Sincerely yours,

best regards,

Nicolas Chartier

Voltage Pictures L.A. Times, 'Hurt Letter' plot thickens after producer offers mea culpa February 25, 2010

Kid Bugs (talk) 21:27, 8 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Note, the typos i.e. "whethere" are in the original email. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kid Bugs (talk • contribs) 21:47, 8 March 2010 (UTC)