Kathryn Bigelow
Also known as: Kathryn Ann Bigelow 
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Kathryn is a Pine Plains, NY-based film director, producer, and screenwriter. She is best known for high-tension action, thriller, and war dramas, and she was the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director for The Hurt Locker in 2010.She studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program in New York in the early 1970s, and earned an MFA from Columbia University’s graduate film program.
Her feature debut was co-directed The Loveless in 1982. Her notable films include the vampire Western Near Dark (1987), Blue Steel (1990), the surf-crime thriller Point Break (1991), Strange Days (1995), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), the Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker (2008; also won Best Picture Oscar), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Detroit (2017), and the 2025 political thriller A House of Dynamite (about a nuclear threat response).
Other work includes TV directing and producing/documentary contributions. Accolades include two Oscars, two BAFTAs, a Directors Guild of America Award, and others. She is noted for visceral style, psychological tension, and collaborations with writers like Mark Boal. She was previously married to director James Cameron (1989–1991).
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