Kathryn Bigelow: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Kathryn Ann Bigelow
Born	November 27, 1951 (age 74) • California
Awards And Honors	Academy Award (2010)
Notable Works	“A House of Dynamite” • “Blue Steel” • “Detroit” • “Near Dark” • “Point Break” • “Strange Days” • “The Hurt Locker” • “The Weight of Water” • “Zero Dark Thirty”
Notable Family Members	spouse James Cameron

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Kathryn Bigelow smiling and looking to the side, wearing a black top and silver necklace, in the press room at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards.

A soldier in a bomb disposal suit runs from a massive explosion in a city street, with debris and smoke filling the background. Publicity still from the film The Hurt Locker.

Kathryn Bigelow

Jeremy Renner as Sergeant William James in The Hurt Locker crouches in military uniform, holding a flashlight and looking intently ahead.

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Steven Spielberg wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, smiling at the camera on the red carpet at the Cannes International Film Festival.

Steven Spielberg

American film director and producer

Martin Scorsese smiling in a tuxedo and bow tie, holding an Oscar statuette at the Academy Awards, with a gold Oscar statue in the background.

Martin Scorsese

American filmmaker

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

John Huston

American director, writer, and actor

Billy Wilder poses in a suit and hat, leaning against a streetlamp with a sign reading Sunset Blvd. in a promotional photo for the film Sunset Boulevard.

Billy Wilder

Austrian-born American director and producer

Elia Kazan stands on a docked ship set with arms outstretched, directing a scene for Panic in the Streets in New Orleans, with crew members and rigging visible behind him.

Elia Kazan

American director and author

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

American filmmaker

Leo McCarey, seated sideways in a director's chair, looks toward the camera in a black-and-white portrait from around 1930.

Leo McCarey

American director

Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone

American director, producer, and screenwriter

Warren Beatty wearing a dark jacket, white shirt, and light tie, posing at an event with a dark background, 2006.

Warren Beatty

American actor, director, and producer

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James L. Brooks

American screenwriter, director, and producer

Guillermo del Toro smiles on the red carpet in a black suit, black shirt, and black tie at the Venice International Film Festival.

Guillermo del Toro

Mexican director

Director James Cameron wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and blue tie, smiling at the Titanic 3D film premiere.

James Cameron

Canadian filmmaker

King Kong

Peter Jackson

New Zealand director

Tony Richardson stands indoors, leaning with one arm on a surface, wearing a sweater over a collared shirt, looking directly at the camera in this 1977 black-and-white portrait.

Tony Richardson

British director and producer

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Joel Coen

American filmmaker

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Ethan Coen

American filmmaker

Woody Allen speaking into a microphone with hands raised beside his face during a press conference, against a red background.

Woody Allen

American director, writer, and actor

Orson Welles

Orson Welles

American actor, director, and writer

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Frank Capra

American film director

William Wyler

William Wyler

German-born American director

American jazz singer Billie Holiday (1915-1959). Photo taken New York, February 1947

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