Kathryn Bigelow

Biography
Kathryn Ann Bigelow was born on November 27, 1951 in San Carlos, California. She was the only daughter of a manager of an industrial paint company and a librarian. From small Kathryn was very fond of art and ended up studying at the Art Institute of San Francisco. Then began an intense activity as a painter, and became a founder of the radical group Art and Language. As Kathryn Bigelow was also a Seventh Art enthusiasts, she decided to study film at Columbia University. She made her debut with the film The Set-Up, followed by the film The Loveless, co-wrote and co-directed by her with Monty Montgomery, producer of Wild at Heart. It was a movie of guys hard, which usually lead men, with Willem Dafoe as a member of a group of bikers.

The first major film Kathryn Bigelow was Near Dark, a horror road movie. Lance Henriksen and Bill Paxton star in a film about a group of vampires who are traveling from one place to another in search of new victims. Bigelow showed her skill in thriller with Blue Steel, starring Jamie Lee Curtis. She played a police officer who was forced to shoot a mugger. One of those present at the shooting is a psychopath who broker the confusion is with a gun. They were present its identity: a solid description of characters for the viewer to empathize with them in the sequence of tension.

In 1989, Kathryn Bigelow was married to James Cameron, the director of Titanic and Avatar. Then it was for her another thriller, Point Break, which reached critical success and public. Keanu Reeves played a cop who must infiltrate a gang of surfers who are engaged in robbing banks. The leader is a charismatic individual known as Bodhi (Patrick Swayze). Cameron and Bigelow were divorced in 1991, but they both worked togeter on the sci-fi-thriller Strange Days, starring Ralph Fiennes.

In 2010 she become the first female director to recive the Academy Award for Best Directing for the movie The Hurt Locker, about how war becomes adicting to the soldiers.

Director

 * 2008 - The Hurt Locker
 * 1995 - Strange Days
 * 1987 - Near Dark

Producer

 * 2008 - The Hurt Locker

Writer

 * 1987 - Near Dark

Saturn Award

 * Won
 * 1996 - Best Director for Strange Days


 * Nominated
 * 2010 - Best Director for The Hurt Locker
 * 1988 - Best Director for Near Dark