Known For
Directing
Known Credits
13
Gender
Female
Birthday
November 27, 1951 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
San Carlos, California, USA
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.
| 2025 | A House of Dynamite...Director | |
| 2017 | Detroit...Director | |
| 2017 | The Protectors...Director | |
| 2014 | Last Days...Director | |
| 2012 | Zero Dark Thirty...Director | |
| 2008 | The Hurt Locker...Director | |
| 2003 | Karen Sisco...Director | |
| 2002 | K-19: The Widowmaker...Director | |
| 2001 | The Weight of Water...Director | |
| 1995 | Strange Days...Director | |
| 1993 | Wild Palms...Director | |
| 1993 | Homicide: Life on the Street...Director | |
| 1991 | Point Break...Director | |
| 1990 | Blue Steel...Director | |
| 1987 | Near Dark...Director | |
| 1984 | The Loveless...Director | |
| 1980 | Union City...Script Supervisor | |
| 1978 | The Set-Up...Director | |
| 1975 | Psychological Operations in Support of Unconventional Warfare...Director |
| 2025 | A House of Dynamite...Producer | |
| 2022 | Year Zero...Executive Producer | |
| 2019 | Triple Frontier...Executive Producer | |
| 2017 | Detroit...Producer | |
| 2016 | Mogadishu, Minnesota...Executive Producer | |
| 2015 | Cartel Land...Executive Producer | |
| 2012 | Zero Dark Thirty...Producer | |
| 2008 | The Hurt Locker...Producer | |
| 2002 | K-19: The Widowmaker...Producer |
| 2020 | Esther's Choice...Thanks | |
| 1997 | Eye of God...Thanks | |
| 1979 | Bored...Cinematography |
| 1996 | Undertow...Writer | |
| 1990 | Blue Steel...Writer | |
| 1987 | Near Dark...Screenplay | |
| 1985 | The Equalizer...Story | |
| 1984 | The Loveless...Writer | |
| 1979 | Bored...Writer |
| 1979 | Altered to Suit...Editor |
| 2009 | Beyond Melodrama: Kathryn Bigelow on Douglas Sirkas Interviewee | |
| 2005 | The Colbert Reportas | |
| 2002 | Living in Darknessas Herself | |
| 1996 | The Daily Showas Self | |
| 1995 | Cinefile: Reel Womenas Self | |
| 1993 | Late Show with David Lettermanas Self - Guest | |
| 1993 | Wild Palmsas Mazie Woiwode (uncredited) | |
| 1988 | Martini Ranch: Reachas Posse Leader | |
| 1983 | Born in Flamesas Newspaper editor | |
| 1976 | Regroupingas Self | |
| 1974 | Prisoner's Dilemmaas Worker | |
| 1974 | Done Toas | |
| 1953 | The Oscarsas Self |
