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Kathryn Bigelow

Highest Rated: 100% A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)

Lowest Rated: 34% The Weight of Water (2000)

Birthday: Nov 27, 1951

Birthplace: San Carlos, California, USA

Director Kathryn Bigelow was hailed as one of the preeminent stylists of contemporary Hollywood filmmaking. After making an unusual entrance to cinema by way of the art world, Bigelow put her distinctive stamp on standard genre films like the Western-tinged vampire flick "Near Dark" (1987) and the feminist-themed cop thriller "Blue Steel" (1990). With the financial success of the surfer bank heist picture "Point Break" (1991), Bigelow enjoyed newfound status as a mainstream director with a rather artistic bent. Following a brief marriage and creative collaboration with fellow director James Cameron, she directed one of her most challenging films, the futuristic "Strange Days" (1995), which failed to catch on at the box office, but nonetheless displayed how successfully a filmmaker could marry art with narrative. Bigelow continued to turn out an impressive body of work, including the Oscar-winning war drama "The Hurt Locker" (2009) and "Zero Dark Thirty" (2012), both of which honed in on her fascination with the meaning of violence.

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Highest rated movies

100% 95% A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
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96% 84% The Hurt Locker
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91% 80% Zero Dark Thirty Watchlist
89% 82% Cartel Land
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88% 57% Born in Flames
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83% 74% Near Dark
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82% 79% Detroit Watchlist
75% 60% The Loveless
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74% 36% Blue Steel Watchlist 71% 58% Triple Frontier Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
71% 58% Triple Frontier Executive Producer - 2019
82% 79% Detroit Director,
Producer
$16.8M 2017
89% 82% Cartel Land Executive Producer $704.4K 2015
91% 80% Zero Dark Thirty Director,
Producer
$95.7M 2012
96% 84% The Hurt Locker Director,
Producer
$15.7M 2008
59% 53% K-19: The Widowmaker Director,
Producer
$35.2M 2002
34% 38% The Weight of Water Director $102.6K 2000
69% 73% Strange Days Director $7.3M 1995
100% 95% A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies Self - 1995
No Score Yet 60% Wild Palms Director - 1993
70% 79% Point Break Director $40.5M 1991
74% 36% Blue Steel Director,
Screenwriter
$7.7M 1990
83% 74% Near Dark Director,
Screenwriter
$2.5M 1987
88% 57% Born in Flames Newspaper Editor (Character) - 1983
75% 60% The Loveless Director - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Set-Up Director - 1978

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Real Time With Bill Maher Guest 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Daily Show Guest 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Conan Guest 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Colbert Report Guest 2009 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wild Palms Director 1993