Kathryn Ann Bigelow (born November 27, 1951) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. She has received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010. Covering a wide range of genres, her early films include The Loveless (1981), with Willem Dafoe; Near Dark (1987), with Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, and Jenette Goldstein; Blue Steel (1990), with Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña, Louise Fletcher, and Richard Jenkins; Point Break (1991), Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Lori Petty, Gary Busey, and John C. McGinley; and Strange Days (1995), with Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott, and Vincent D’Onofrio.
She became first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director for The Hurt Locker (2008), with Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo, Fiennes, David Morse, and Guy Pearce – which also won Best Picture. She was revived a second Best Picture nomination for Zero Dark Thirty (2012), with Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Mark Strong, James Gandolfini, Kyle Chandler, Stephen Dillane, Chris Pratt, Édgar Ramírez, Fares Fares, Jennifer Ehle, John Barrowman, Mark Duplass, and Frank Grillo.
Other notable films from the 2000s include The Weight of Water (2000), with Elizabeth Hurley, Catherine McCormack, Sean Penn, and Sarah Polley; K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), with Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard, and Joss Ackland; Detroit (2017), John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell, Hannah Murray, Kaitlyn Dever, Jack Reynor, Ben O’Toole, Nathan Davis Jr., Peyton Alex Smith, Malcolm David Kelley, Joseph David-Jones, John Krasinski, and Mackie; and A House of Dynamite (2025), with Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, and Tracy Letts.
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- The Loveless (1981) – co-directed with Monty Montgomery – also co-writer
- Near Dark (1987) – also co-writer
- Blue Steel (1990) – also co-writer
- Point Break (1991) – uncredited co-writer
- Strange Days (1995)
- Undertow (1996) – directed by Eric Red – co-writer – TV movie
- The Weight of Water (2000)
- K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) – also producer
- The Hurt Locker (2008) – also producer
- Zero Dark Thirty (2012) – also producer
- Detroit (2017) – also producer
- A House of Dynamite (2025) – also producer
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