Kathryn Bigelow

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Kathryn Bigelow at the 2010 Academy Awards

Kathryn Ann Bigelow [ ˈkʰæθɹɪn ʔæn ˈbɪgəloʊ̯ ] (born November 27, 1951 in San Carlos , California ) is an American film director and Oscar winner.

Life

Kathryn Bigelow is the only child of a librarian and paint factory manager. She initially studied at the San Francisco Art Institute for two years before winning a scholarship from the prestigious study program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1971 and moving to New York . She was temporarily a member of the avant-garde - artists' group Art & Language . She studied film at Columbia University . As a thesis, she shot the 20-minute short film The Set-Up there in 1978 .

Her first feature-length film , made together with Monty Montgomery , followed in 1982 , the biker drama The Loveless with Willem Dafoe in the lead role. In 1983 she took on a leading role in Lizzie Borden's feminist science fiction film Born in Flames . Bigelow's next directorial work, the dark vampire drama Near Dark , premiered in September 1987 at the Toronto Film Festival . Bigelow then shot a music video for the band New Order ( Touched by the Hand of God ) and took on a role as a biker in James Cameron's music video for Bill Paxton's band Martini Ranch .

Bigelow's next movies were the controversial serial killer thriller Blue Steel (1989) starring Jamie Lee Curtis and the action film Dangerous Surf (1991) starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze . Between her movies, she occasionally shoots for television, such as the crime series Homicide and the series Wild Palms produced by Oliver Stone .

In 2008, Bigelow worked with screenwriter Mark Boal on the war drama Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker , which reports on a unit of the US ordnance disposal service in the Iraq war . The film received critical acclaim and earned Bigelow the Directors Guild of America Award and the British Academy Film Award . At the 2010 Academy Awards , the film received nine nominations. Kathryn Bigelow was the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Director , and another in her role as a producer in the Best Picture category . The film received a total of six Academy Awards, including in the categories of Best Original Screenplay , Best Sound , Best Sound Editing, and Best Editing .

After Tödliches Kommando - The Hurt Locker, she worked again with Mark Boal on the feature film Zero Dark Thirty (2012). The thriller, which focuses on a young CIA analyst (played by Jessica Chastain ) on the hunt for Osama bin Laden , opened in US cinemas on December 19, 2012 and after 2009 brought Bigelow again the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Film and Direction and the National Board of Review Award in the same categories.

Bigelow is one of the few female action directors.

From 1989 to 1991 she was married to James Cameron , who also wrote the script for her film Strange Days (1995).

Filmography

As a director
As a screenwriter
As a producer
As an actress

Awards

Near Dark - The night has its price

Strange days

Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker

  • 2009: Best Director - Austin Film Critics Association
  • 2009: Best Picture - Austin Film Critics Association
  • 2009: Best Director - Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award
  • 2009: Best Director - Boston Society of Film Critics
  • 2009: Best Director - British Academy Film Award
  • 2009: Best Picture - British Academy Film Award
  • 2009: Best Director - Chicago Film Critics Association Award
  • 2009: Best Director - Houston Film Critics Society
  • 2009: Best Director - Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award
  • 2009: Best Director - Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award
  • 2009: Best Director - Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
  • 2009: Best Director - London Critics' Circle Film Award
  • 2009: Best Director - New York Film Critics Circle Award
  • 2009: Best Director - New York Film Critics Online
  • 2009: Best Director - Oklahoma Film Critics Circle
  • 2009: Best Director - Online Film Critics Society Awards
  • 2009: Best Picture - Producers Guild of America Award
  • 2009: Best Director - San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award
  • 2009: Best Director - Satellite Award
  • 2009: Best Director - Seattle International Film Festival
  • 2009: Best Director - Southeastern Film Critics Association Award
  • 2009: Best Director - St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award
  • 2009: Best Director - Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award
  • 2009: Best Director - Washington DC Area Film Critics Association
  • 2009: Dallas Star Award - AFI Dallas Film Festival
  • 2009: Director of the Year - Hollywood Film Festival
  • 2009: Director of the Year - Santa Barbara International Film Festival
  • 2010: Best Film - Broadcast Film Critics Association Award
  • 2010: Best Director - BFCA Award
  • 2010: Best Director - Denver Film Critics Society
  • 2010: Best Director - National Society of Film Critics Award
  • 2010: Best Director - Oscar
  • 2010: Best Picture - Oscar

Zero Dark Thirty

  • 2012: Best Director - New York Film Critics Circle Award
  • 2012: Best Director - National Board of Review Award
  • 2013: Best Director - Nomination: Golden Globe Award 2013
  • 2013: Best Film - Nomination: Oscar

literature

  • Welf Kienast, Wolfgang Struck, Heike Depenbrock: Use of the body - the cinema of Kathryn Bigelow. Schüren, Marburg 1999, ISBN 3-89472-310-6 .

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Commons : Kathryn Bigelow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Bigelow, Kathryn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bigelow, Kathryn Ann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH San Carlos (California) , California, United States