Kathryn Bigelow Biography

Kathryn Bigelow is a popular filmmaker known for her incredible visuals and heart-pounding action sequences. In 1979 Bigelow moved from short to feature-length films. She co-created the movie The Hurt Locker in 2008 for which she won an Academy Award for best director-- becoming the first woman to receive this honor-- and directed Zero Dark Thirty in 2012.
Bigelow studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute after finishing high school. Winning a scholarship she then moved to New York City to attend the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of Art in 1972. Bigelow eventually changed her focus to another visual medium: film.
She made her first short movie The Set-Up in 1978. The film explored the topic of violence which would become a recurring theme in her work. She earned her master's degree in film theory and criticism from Columbia University in 1979 and moved on to feature-length projects. In 1981 Bigelow created The Loveless featuring Willem Dafoe which was partly inspired by her love of the 1954 classic film The Wild Ones. The movie earned critical acclaim but she attracted more notice for her next effort Near Dark a vampire tale set in the American West. In 1989 she released her first major studio project Blue Steel. Bigelow's next project was 1991's Point Break starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze.

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