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Kathryn Bigelow

Kathryn Bigelow

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.

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Movies Made By Kathryn Bigelow (26)

A House of Dynamite (2025)

When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond. ...

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Esther's Choice (2020)

Esther, a film composer going through a dry spell, moves in with her boyfriend Michael only to find out that he still keeps his Ex-girlfriend's belongings in his closet. What follows is an emotional roller coaster of a film exploring the great lengths an a ...

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Triple Frontier (2019)

Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord. ...

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I Am Not a Weapon (2018)

Boko Haram tried to make weapons out of them. These girls refused. ...

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Detroit (2017)

A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States. ...

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The Protectors (2017)

A short VR documentary exposing the dangerous and grueling reality faced by rangers protecting African elephants from ivory poachers. Over 30,000 African elephants die each year at the hands of poachers, and despite global outcry the trafficking continues. ...

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Mogadishu, Minnesota (2016)

A drama about a Somali family living in Minneapolis. ...

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Cartel Land (2015)

In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," shepherds a citizen uprising against the Knights Templar, the violent drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years. Meanwhile, in Arizona's Alt ...

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Last Days (2014)

A short animated documentary film about the decline of African elephant populations due to the illegal ivory trade. ...

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Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011. ...

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The Hurt Locker (2008)

During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work. ...

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Mission Zero (2007)

Pirelli Film's second promotional short, starring Uma Thurman and directed by Kathryn Bigelow. ...

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K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster. ...

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The Weight of Water (2001)

A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal. ...

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Eye of God (1997)

A small Oklahoma town is stripped of its innocence when one of its boys turns up mute and bloodied by the lakeside. Unable to tell his story, the local sheriff embarks on a quest to uncover the roots of a gruesome crime. He's led to Ainsley DuPree and her ...

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Undertow (1996)

After his car breaks down, Jack seeks shelter, lost in a thunderstorm in a remote shack in the woods. He finds himself held at gunpoint by a deranged mountain man who lives there with his young wife. As the storm rages on, tension mounts in the small cabin ...

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Strange Days (1995)

In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the memories of the murder of a prostitute. With the help of bodyguard Mace, he starts to investigate and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of murder, bla ...

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Point Break (1991)

In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to ...

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Blue Steel (1990)

Rookie cop Megan Turner orders a burglar to drop his gun. He whirls to shoot. Too late. Turner fires, killing him instantly. When someone lifts the assailant's gun from the crime scene, the police hold Turner accountable for killing an unarmed man. That sa ...

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Near Dark (1987)

A farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. ...

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Touched by the Hand of God (1987)

The concept of this promo directed by Kathryn Bigelow was proposed by New Order's manager Rob Gretton, who was inspired by the clichés of the videos of then-popular American glam metal groups on MTV. Bigelow intercut the band footage with a narrative betw ...

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The Loveless (1984)

Trouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona. ...

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Union City (1980)

A 1950s accountant with a restless wife grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door. ...

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Bored (1979)

Boredom in New York City. ...

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Altered to Suit (1979)

"The mise-en-scene, the whole story, takes place in one location, the artist's studio. A delicate psychological allegory on 'a day in the life of' anchors the displacement of (filmic) reality and the alienation of the (players) self. Devices such as incong ...

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The Set-Up (1978)

The Set-Up is Kathryn Bigelow's student film at Columbia about the exploration of 'why violence in cinematic form is so seductive'. It featured two men beating each other to a pulp in a dark alley, while two professors analyzed the philosophy of it all on ...

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Movies Starring Kathryn Bigelow (7)

Beyond Melodrama: Kathryn Bigelow on Douglas Sirk (2009)

Kathryn Bigelow talks about the work of film director Douglas Sirk. ...

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Living in Darkness (2002)

A documentary featuring the cast and crew of "Near Dark" reminiscing about the film's production. ...

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Cinefile: Reel Women (1995)

Interviews with women directors working in Hollywood and Europe in the early 1990s, exploring the opportunities and obstacles that face them. A program made to accompany a Channel 4 season of films directed and produced by women. ...

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Born in Flames (1983)

In near-future New York, ten years after the "social-democratic war of liberation," diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled. ...

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Regrouping (1976)

In this experimental film, Borden explores the dynamics among the members of a woman's group. As she interviews people who know them, such as Joan Jonas, the group shoots 'artistic' scenes of themselves – but Borden feels they aren't fully grappling with ...

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Prisoner's Dilemma (1974)

A two-part tape of a video performance done on January 22, 1974, at 112 Greene Street (as part of the Video Performance Exhibition), structured on a problem in game theory, a non-zero-sum game, in which both players can win or lose at the same time, one ca ...

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Done To (1974)

"Done To" (sometimes called "It Is, Done To") consists of simple camera frames which are silent and/or unconnected to a complex soundtrack running parellel to the images. There are brief instances where image and sound meet; however, the majority of the im ...

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