Kathryn Bigelow
Film director
1951 –
Who is Kathryn Bigelow?
Kathryn Ann Bigelow is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and television director.
Her films include Near Dark, Point Break, Strange Days, The Weight of Water, K-19: The Widowmaker, The Hurt Locker, and Zero Dark Thirty. The Hurt Locker won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Picture, won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and was nominated for the 2009 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 Movie Award for Best Director. She also became the first woman to win the Saturn Award for Best Director in 1995 for Strange Days.
In April 2010, Bigelow was named to the Time 100 list of most influential people of the year.
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- Born
- Nov 27, 1951
San Carlos - Also known as
- Kathryn Ann Bigelow
- Parents
- Spouses
- James Cameron
(1989/08/17 - 1991/11/10)
- James Cameron
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Columbia University
- San Francisco Art Institute
- Columbia University School of the Arts
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on July 23, 2013
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