Kathryn Bigelow
30 movies · 5 TV shows
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Nov 27, 1951 (age 74)
- Place of birth
- San Carlos, California, USA
- Also known as
- Katrhryn Bigelow · Kathryn Ann Bigelow
Biography
Kathryn Ann Bigelow (born November 27, 1951) is an American film director. Her best-known films are the cult horror film Near Dark (1987), the surfer/bank robbery action picture Point Break (1991), the historical/mystery film The Weight of Water (2000) and the war drama The Hurt Locker (2008). The Hurt Locker won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Picture, won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and was nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Drama.
With The Hurt Locker, Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, the BAFTA Award for Best Direction, and the Critics' Choice Award for Best Director.
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In April 2010, Bigelow was named to the Time 100 list of most influential people of the year.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Kathryn Bigelow: movies and TV shows
Acting (6)
- 2009 Beyond Melodrama: Kathryn Bigelow on Douglas Sirk
as Interviewee
- 1993
- 1988 Martini Ranch: Reach
as Posse Leader
- 1983 Born in Flames
as Newspaper editor
- 1974 Prisoner's Dilemma
as Worker
- 1974
Behind the camera (30)
- 2025 A House of Dynamite
Director, Producer
- 2022
- 2020 Esther's Choice
Thanks
- 2019 Triple Frontier
Executive Producer
- 2017 Detroit
Director, Producer
- 2017 The Protectors
Director
- 2016 Mogadishu, Minnesota
Executive Producer
- 2015 Cartel Land
Executive Producer
- 2014 Last Days
Director
- 2012 Zero Dark Thirty
Director, Producer
- 2008 The Hurt Locker
Director, Producer
- 2007 Mission Zero
Director
- 2003
- 2002 K-19: The Widowmaker
Director, Producer
- 2001 The Weight of Water
Director
- 1997 Eye of God
Thanks
- 1996 Undertow
Writer
- 1995 Strange Days
Director
- 1993
- 1993
- 1991 Point Break
Director
- 1990 Blue Steel
Director, Writer
- 1987 Near Dark
Director, Screenplay
- 1985
- 1984 The Loveless
Director, Writer
- 1980 Union City
Script Supervisor
- 1979 Bored
Writer, Cinematography
- 1979 Altered to Suit
Editor
- 1978 The Set-Up
Director
- 1975
Talk shows and appearances (8)
- 2021
- 2005 The Colbert Report
1 episode
- 2002
- 1996 The Daily Show
1 episode
- 1995
- 1993 Late Show with David Letterman
1 episode
- 1976
- 1953 The Oscars
1 episode