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Kathryn Ann Bigelow (/ ˈ b ɪ ɡ ə ˌ l oʊ /; born November 27, 1951) is an American filmmaker. Bigelow has received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards , two BAFTA Awards , and a Primetime Emmy Award .
IMDb provides an extensive overview of Kathryn Bigelow's life and career as a director, producer, actress and painter. Learn about her achievements, collaborations, influences and trivia on the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content.
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Kathryn Bigelow. Director: The Hurt Locker. A very talented painter, Kathryn spent two years at the San Francisco Art Institute. At 20, she won a scholarship to the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program. She was given a studio in a former Offtrack Betting building, literally in an old bank vault, where she made art and waited to be critiqued by people like Richard Serra, Robert ...
- November 27, 1951
Jun 25, 2024 · Kathryn Bigelow, American film director and screenwriter, noted for action films that often featured protagonists struggling with inner conflict. She was the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director, for The Hurt Locker (2008).
Apr 2, 2014 · Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow has directed films like Point Break and Zero Dark Thirty. In 2009, she became the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director for The Hurt Locker (2008).
Jul 10, 2024 · Martin Scorsese’s street-level masterpiece Mean Streets and Sam Peckinpah’s bloodthirsty The Wild Bunch don’t have much in common on a surface level. However, Bigelow recalled a double bill of the two that she caught in the 1970s as “a life-changing experience”. “I thought they were just extraordinary. Peckinpah for his muscularity ...
Aug 2, 2017 · The Oscar-winning director of The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty returns with a new movie based on the true story of a police brutality incident during the civil unrest in Detroit 50 years ago. She talks about her research, her approach and her goal to inform and provoke with her film.
