Kathryn Bigelow is an American director and producer. She is the first woman who has won the Directors Guild of America’s Best Director Award. Bigelow also won Academy Award for Best Directory. She is famous for directing many big-budget movies that starred popular actors from Hollywood. Let’s find out all about the life of Kathryn Bigelow.
Kathryn Bigelow Biography
Kathryn Bigelow was born on November 27, 1951, in the United States. She became the woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director for her film The Hurt Locker. She also directed many big-budget movies that including Point Break, Strange Days, and Zero Dark Thirty. Kathryn Bigelow’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Bigelow was born in San Carlos, California. She is the only child of Gertrude Kathryn (née Larson; 1917–1994). Her mother was a librarian, and Ronald Elliot Bigelow (1915–1992), her father was a paint factory manager. Her mother was of Norwegian descent. The famous director attended Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, California.
Kathryn Bigelow Early Life Achievements
Bigelow’s had a lot of interest in painting. She was a student of painting at the San Francisco Art Institute in the fall of 1970. Bigelow got her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in December 1972. While enrolled at SFAI, the talented director was accepted at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program in New York City.
Bigelow lived as a starving artist and collaborated with the painter Julian Schnabel in performance artist Vito Acconci’s loft. She was also a part of Richard Serra’s video Prisoner’s Dilemma (1974). She teamed up with Philip Glass on a real-estate venture where they renovated distressed apartments downtown and sold them out for a huge profit.
Kathryn Bigelow Net Worth
Kathryn Bigelow is one of the richest Directors in Hollywood. She is listed in the category of the most popular Director in Hollywood. According to Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kathryn Bigelow’s net worth is estimated to be $40 Million. She has achieved her assets by directing several big-budget movies. She is an established director and her major source of income is through her career as a director.
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Kathryn Bigelow Career
Kathryn made her debut in Hollywood as an actress. She was a part of a low-budget feminist film “Born in Flames”. Bigelow is an indie filmmaker at heart and she stays away from the stereotypes in both areas. Her films are violent and edgy but are loved by people around the world. She came into the limelight with the film “Point Break” which starred Keanu Reeves as an undercover FBI agent. Keanu was seen hunting bank-robbing surfers，
“Blue Steel” was another big success for Kathryn. The film starred Jamie Lee Curtis as a police officer. “Strange Days”， which was a futuristic thriller that surrounded mind control. The film starred Ralph Fiennes and Angela Basset. She has directed many other popular movies including “The Hurt Locker”. She won her first Academy Award for her work on The Hurt Locker. She beat her former husband James Cameron for the award. Bigelow released the critically acclaimed hit Zero Dark 30 which got her several nominations.
Bigelow is most well-known for extensive violence in her films. Most of her films include violent sequences and involve the theme of violence. her first feature film The Loveless, starring Willem Dafoe, was an instant success. The film follows a 1950s motorcycle gang’s visit to a small town. Her next film, Near Dark, tells the story of a young boy who falls in love with a vampire.
Bigelow collaborated with Mark Boal for her film Detroit. The film is set in the 1967 Detroit riots. Detroit began filming in the summer of 2016 and it was released in July 2017. The film was released during the time of the 50th anniversary of the riots. The release also clashed with the anniversary day of the Algiers Motel incident. The incidents of these events are depicted in the film. John Boyega, Hannah Murray, Will Poulter, Jack Reynor, Anthony Mackie, and Joseph David-Jones starred in the film.
Bigelow explore the Western and horror genre and also made films on the subject of “homosexuality. Her films also focused on the ‘white America’s illusion of safety and control’”. This film became a cult classic and caught a lot of attention among the horror genre community. Bigelow was a part of the screening of it in Greenwich Village with a horror genre crowd.
Marriage and Relationships
Kathryn got married to fellow director James Cameron. The couple got married in 1989 and their marriage lasted till 1991. They got separated and parted ways. Since then there has been no news of any relationships with the director.
