Cast & creator
Kathryn Bigelow
Best known for The Daily Show, Late Show with David Letterman, The Colbert Report
Kathryn Ann Bigelow (born November 27, 1951) 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.
Also known as: Katrhryn Bigelow, Kathryn Ann Bigelow
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film credits
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1953–2025 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (53)
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The Daily Show
Self
1996
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Guest
1993
The Colbert Report
2005
Homicide: Life on the Street
Director
1993
The Equalizer
Story
1985
The Oscars
Self
1953
Point Break
Director
1991
A House of Dynamite
Director
2025A House of Dynamite
Producer
2025
Zero Dark Thirty
Director
2012Zero Dark Thirty
Producer
2012
The Hurt Locker
Director
2008The Hurt Locker
Producer
2008
Triple Frontier
Executive Producer
2019
Near Dark
Screenplay
1987Near Dark
Director
1987
Strange Days
Director
1995
K-19: The Widowmaker
Producer
2002K-19: The Widowmaker
Director
2002
Wild Palms
Mazie Woiwode (uncredited)
1993Wild Palms
Director
1993
Karen Sisco
Director
2003
Detroit
Director
2017Detroit
Producer
2017
Blue Steel
Director
1990Blue Steel
Writer
1990
The Weight of Water
Director
2001
Eye of God
Thanks
1997
Mogadishu, Minnesota
Executive Producer
2016
Martini Ranch: Reach
Posse Leader
1988
Cartel Land
Executive Producer
2015
The Loveless
Director
1984The Loveless
Writer
1984
Born in Flames
Newspaper editor
1983
Mission Zero
Director
2007
The Protectors
Director
2017
Regrouping
Self
1976
Cinefile: Reel Women
Self
1995
Esther's Choice
Thanks
2020
Undertow
Writer
1996
Union City
Script Supervisor
1980Done To
1974Year Zero
Executive Producer
2022
The Forever Prisoner
Self (archive footage)
2021
The Set-Up
Director
1978Bored
Writer
1979Bored
Cinematography
1979Psychological Operations in Support of Unconventional Warfare
Director
1975
Living in Darkness
Herself
2002
Last Days
Director
2014
Beyond Melodrama: Kathryn Bigelow on Douglas Sirk
Interviewee
2009
Prisoner's Dilemma
Worker
1974Altered to Suit
Editor
1979