Kathryn Bigelow

74, from San Carlos, California, USA

Artwork for The Forever PrisonerImage of Kathryn Bigelow

Biography

Kathryn Ann Bigelow 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.

Timeline

2025Aged 74

  • Poster for A House of Dynamite

    Producer

2021Aged 70

  • Poster for The Forever Prisoner

    Self (archive footage)

2020Aged 69

  • Poster for Esther's Choice

    Thanks

2019Aged 68

  • Poster for Triple Frontier

    Executive Producer

2017Aged 66

  • Poster for The Protectors

    Director

  • Poster for Detroit

    Producer

2016Aged 65

  • Poster for Mogadishu, Minnesota

    Executive Producer

2015Aged 64

  • Poster for Cartel Land

    Executive Producer

2014Aged 63

  • Poster for Last Days

    Director

2012Aged 61

  • Poster for Zero Dark Thirty

    Producer

2009Aged 58

  • Poster for Beyond Melodrama: Kathryn Bigelow on Douglas Sirk

    Interviewee

2008Aged 57

  • Poster for The Hurt Locker

    Producer

2007Aged 56

  • Poster for Mission Zero

    Director

2002Aged 51

  • Poster for Living in Darkness

    Herself

  • Poster for K-19: The Widowmaker

    Producer

2001Aged 50

  • Poster for The Weight of Water

    Director

1997Aged 46

  • Poster for Eye of God

    Thanks

1996Aged 45

  • Poster for Undertow

    Writer

1995Aged 44

  • Poster for Cinefile: Reel Women

    Self

  • Poster for Strange Days

    Director

1991Aged 40

  • Poster for Point Break

    Director

1990Aged 39

  • Poster for Blue Steel

    Writer

1988Aged 37

  • Poster for Martini Ranch: Reach

    Posse Leader

1987Aged 36

  • Poster for Near Dark

    Screenplay

1984Aged 33

  • Poster for The Loveless

    Writer

1983Aged 32

  • Poster for Born in Flames

    Newspaper editor

1980Aged 29

  • Poster for Union City

    Script Supervisor

1979Aged 28

1978Aged 27

  • Poster for The Set-Up

    Director

1976Aged 25

  • Poster for Regrouping

    Self

1974Aged 23