1. Kathryn Ann Bigelow is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.
37 Facts About Kathryn Bigelow
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Kathryn Bigelow has received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
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Kathryn Bigelow rose to prominence directing the thrillers Near Dark, Blue Steel, Point Break, Strange Days, and K-19: The Widowmaker.
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For directing the war drama The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director.
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Kathryn Bigelow has since directed the spy thriller Zero Dark Thirty, and the crime drama Detroit.
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Kathryn Bigelow directed episodes of the NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking for her work on the Netflix film Cartel Land.
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Kathryn Bigelow is known for her collaborations with Eric Red and Mark Boal.
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Kathryn Bigelow attended Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, California.
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Kathryn Bigelow enrolled at San Francisco Art Institute in the fall of 1970 and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in December 1972.
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Kathryn Bigelow had a minor role in Richard Serra's video Prisoner's Dilemma.
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Kathryn Bigelow teamed up with Philip Glass on a real-estate venture in which they renovated distressed apartments downtown and sold them for a profit.
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Kathryn Bigelow entered the graduate film program at Columbia University, where she studied theory and criticism and earned her master's degree.
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Kathryn Bigelow taught at the California Institute of the Arts.
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Kathryn Bigelow's short The Set-Up is a 20-minute deconstruction of violence in film.
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Furthermore, many attributed the creative vision to Cameron, diminishing Kathryn Bigelow's perceived influence on the film.
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Kathryn Bigelow directed three episodes of Homicide: Life on the Street in 1997 and 1998.
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Kathryn Bigelow next directed The Hurt Locker, which was first shown at the Venice Film Festival in September 2008, was the Closing Night selection for Maryland Film Festival in May 2009, and theatrically released in the US in June 2009.
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Kathryn Bigelow won the Directors Guild of America award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures and received a Golden Globe Award for Best Director nomination losing to James Cameron for Avatar.
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Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to receive an Academy Award for Best Director for The Hurt Locker.
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Kathryn Bigelow was the fourth woman in history to be nominated for the honor, and only the second American woman.
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Kathryn Bigelow won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director for the film, making her the first woman to win the award twice.
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Kathryn Bigelow had already won previously for directing The Hurt Locker.
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Kathryn Bigelow was the first woman to receive the National Board of Review Award for Best Director.
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Kathryn Bigelow collaborated with Mark Boal for the third time on the film Detroit, set during the 1967 Detroit riots.
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Kathryn Bigelow served as executive producer of Triple Frontier, a film that she was originally going to direct.
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Kathryn Bigelow gave up directing duties to J C Chandor to focus on projects.
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In 2022, Kathryn Bigelow was nominated by the Directors Guild of America for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials for Apple's "Hollywood In Your Pocket".
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In May 2024, Netflix announced that Kathryn Bigelow would be directing a new feature film for the streaming platform.
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Kathryn Bigelow has a shifting relationship with Hollywood and its conventional film standards and techniques.
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Kathryn Bigelow often uses "purpose-built" camera equipment to create mobile shots.
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The film was conceived as a Western but the genre was so unpopular at the time that Kathryn Bigelow had to adjust her script and invert the genre conventions.
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Kathryn Bigelow still used the violent staples of the genre including sieges, shoot-outs, and horseback chases.
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Kathryn Bigelow herself saw it screened in Greenwich Village with a horror genre crowd.
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Similarly to Near Dark, Kathryn Bigelow inverts the typical action genre conventions by placing a female protagonist at the center.
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In Point Break, while filming the skydiving scene, Kathryn Bigelow was on the airplane with a parachute on, as she filmed Patrick Swayze throw himself into the sky.
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Kathryn Bigelow's acting credits include Lizzie Borden's 1983 film Born in Flames as a feminist newspaper editor, and as the leader of a cowgirl gang in the 1988 music video of Martini Ranch's "Reach", which was directed by James Cameron.
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Kathryn Bigelow was married to director James Cameron from 1989 to 1991.