A producer for Oscar-nominated war film The Hurt Locker¹ will not be allowed to attend the awards ceremony after breaking Academy rules.

奥斯卡提名战争电影《拆弹部队》的一名制片人因为违反奥斯卡规则而被禁止参加颁奖仪式。

The Hurt Locker has been nominated for nine awards

Nicolas Chartier has been barred from the event after sending an e-mail to voters urging them to name his movie as best film over rival Avatar.

Academy rules prohibit the mailing of members to promote or disparage²（蔑视，毁谤） a film.

But should The Hurt Locker win best picture, Chartier will still receive his Oscar statuette（小雕像） at a later date.

In his email, which was sent to members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in late February, Chartier asked members to choose The Hurt Locker over what he described as "a $500 million film" - a clear reference to fellow best picture contender（竞争者） Avatar.

Subsequent（后来的，随后的） emails, posted by the Los Angeles Times, showed Chartier asking Oscar voters to rank his film at number one and Avatar at number 10 among the list of nominated films.

'Negative or derogatory light'

Although he later apologised, citing "naivete（天真，质朴） , ignorance of the rules and plain stupidity as a first-time nominee³" for the error, the Academy said Chartier had violated campaigning standards.

"Chartier had recently disseminated⁴（散布，撒播） an email to certain Academy voters and other film industry figures in which he solicited⁵（请求） votes for his own picture and disparaged⁶ one of the other contending films.

"Academy rules prohibit 'casting a negative or derogatory（贬损的） light on a competing film'," the Academy said in a statement.

However organisers stopped short of the harsher penalty of withdrawing Chartier's nomination⁷, which would have kept him from receiving an Oscar statuette if his film won.

The punishment is ironic⁸, as Academy rules state only three producers are eligible⁹（合格的，合适的） to be awarded the best picture statuette.

Director Kathryn Bigelow, screenwriter Mark Boal - both of whom are also producers on the film - and third producer Greg Shapiro all lobbied for Chartier's inclusion. After deliberations（审议意见，商议） , the Academy conceded（承认，退让） .

The penalty against Chartier does not affect the other three producers, who are free to attend the Oscars.

Both The Hurt Locker and Avatar are up for nine awards at the Oscars ceremony on 7 March.

Meanwhile, A US Army sergeant¹⁰（中士） is suing the makers¹¹ of The Hurt Locker, claiming the central character in the film is based on him.

Jeffrey Sarver says screenwriter Boal based "virtually all of the situations" in the film on events involving him and claims he coined the phrase "the hurt locker".

The Hurt Locker's distributor, Summit Entertainment, said the film was a "fictional¹²（虚构的，小说的） account" about soldiers in the battlefield.