Kathryn Bigelow
Born: 1951-11-27 in San Carlos, California, USA
Known For: Directing
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. In April 2010, Bigelow was named to the Time 100 list of most influential people of the year.
Filmography
2025
- A House of Dynamite ... (Director)
2022
- Year Zero ... (Executive Producer)
2020
- Esther's Choice ... (Thanks)
2019
- Triple Frontier ... (Executive Producer)
2017
- Detroit ... (Director)
- The Protectors ... (Director)
2016
- Mogadishu, Minnesota ... (Executive Producer)
2015
- Cartel Land ... (Executive Producer)
2014
- Last Days ... (Director)
2012
- Zero Dark Thirty ... (Director)
2009
- Beyond Melodrama: Kathryn Bigelow on Douglas Sirk as Interviewee
2008
- The Hurt Locker ... (Director)
2007
- Mission Zero ... (Director)
2005
2003
- Karen Sisco ... (Director)
2002
- K-19: The Widowmaker ... (Director)
- Living in Darkness as Herself
2001
- The Weight of Water ... (Director)
1997
- Eye of God ... (Thanks)
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
- Undertow ... (Writer)
1995
- Strange Days ... (Director)
- Cinefile: Reel Women as Self
1993
- Homicide: Life on the Street ... (Director)
- Wild Palms as Mazie Woiwode (uncredited)
1991
- Point Break ... (Director)
1990
- Blue Steel ... (Director)
1988
- Martini Ranch: Reach as Posse Leader
1987
- Near Dark ... (Director)
1985
- The Equalizer ... (Story)
1984
- The Loveless ... (Director)
1983
- Born in Flames as Newspaper editor
1980
- Union City ... (Script Supervisor)
1979
- Bored ... (Writer)
- Altered to Suit ... (Editor)
1978
- The Set-Up ... (Director)
1976
- Regrouping as Self
1975
1974
- Done To
- Prisoner's Dilemma as Worker