Kathryn Bigelow Filmography

Born:: November 27, 1951 in USA
Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Director Kathryn Bigelow's small but impressive body of work has consistently dealt with issues of violence and tension. Originally trained as a painter, she attended the San Francisco Art Institute and was invited to study at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. She worked as an...Read More

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The Hurt Locker

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes

Synopsis: Based on recently declassified information and the personal wartime experiences of journalist Mark Boal (who adapted his experiences with a bomb squad into a fact-based, yet fictional story), director Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker presents the ongoing conflict in the Middle East Read More

1/1/08
The Weight of Water

Crew: Director

Actors: Catherine McCormack, Sarah Polley, Sean Penn, Josh Lucas, Elizabeth Hurley

Synopsis: A woman studying a crime of the past finds her own life becoming a morass of suspicion and deceit in this drama based on the novel by Anita Shreve. Jean Janes (Catherine McCormack) is a photographer working on a project that would document surviving evidence of a multiple murder that occurred a Read More

11/1/02
K-19: The Widowmaker

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard, Joss Ackland, John Shrapnel

Synopsis: A real-life historical incident becomes the basis for this military thriller from director Kathryn Bigelow that's reminiscent of such submarine dramas as Das Boot (1981), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Crimson Tide (1995), and U-571 (2000). Harrison Ford stars as Captain Alexi Vostrikov, a Read More

7/19/02
Homicide: Life on the Street - Lines of Fire

Crew: Director

Actors: Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Kyle Secor, Ron Eldard

Synopsis: Ron Eldard guest stars as Emmett Carey, who takes his two children hostage, barricades himself in his sister-in-law's apartment, and threatens to blow up the place if the cops try to remove him. As the day wears on, Mike Giardello (Giancarlo Esposito) and Stuart Gharty (Peter Gerety) are able to Read More

1999
Homicide: Life on the Street - Fallen Heroes, Part 1

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: In the first episode of Homicide: Life on the Street's two-part season six finale, Judge Gibbons, who presided over the Mahoney wrongful-death suit, is found murdered -- and before long, three cops are killed in drive-bys that may be related to Gibbons' death. The FBI joins the homicide unit to Read More

1998
Homicide: Life on the Street - Fallen Heroes, Part 2

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Homicide: Life on the Street's two-part season six finale, the Baltimore police declares all-out war against the Mahoney drug operation after a shoot-out in the homicide unit's interrogation chamber which left detectives Ballard (Callie Thorne) and Gharty (Peter Gerety) Read More

1998
Strange Days

Crew: Director

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott

Synopsis: Set in Los Angeles two days before the end of 1999, Strange Days introduces us to Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes), an ex-cop turned sleazy hustler who hawks the newest underground thrill on the black market: a "squid," a headpiece that allows one to transmit digital recordings of other people's Read More

1995
Wild Palms

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Just after the turn of the 21st century in L.A., Harry (Belushi) works for a television station that uses a revolutionary technology, virtual reality projected for at-home viewers with 3-D holographic programs. A sinister group known as the Fathers, headed by Senator Kreutzer (Loggia), has a Read More

1993
Point Break

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Lori Petty, Gary Busey, John C. McGinley

Synopsis: Kathryn Bigelow's fourth action film follows FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) as he goes undercover to infiltrate a cache of Southern California surfers suspected of robbing banks. Utah, a former football player, is assigned to Los Angeles. There, four bank robbers, who wear rubber masks and Read More

7/12/91
Undertow

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Peter Dobson, Burtt Harris, Erica Gimpel, Anita Gillette, Greg Mullavey

1991
Blue Steel

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a rookie cop who witnesses a robbery in progress on her first night on the job. With her more experienced partner using the men's room, Megan decides to take action on her own. She creeps into the supermarket where a man (Tom Sizemore in a small role) is holding Read More

3/16/90
Near Dark

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein

Synopsis: In Kathryn Bigelow's tale of vampires in the American Southwest, the creatures of the night aren't elegant, cloaked aristocrats. They're a gun-toting gang that dresses and acts like a motorcycle gang. Caleb (Adrian Pasdar), a restless young man from a small farm town, meets an alluring drifter Read More

10/2/87
Born in Flames

Actors: Honey, Jeanne Satterfield, Adele Bertei, Becky Johnston, Pat Murphy

Synopsis: Independent filmmaker, artist, and critic Lizzie Borden made her feature-film debut with this bold fusion of science fiction and feminist politics. In the near future, America is celebrating the tenth anniversary of a socialist revolution that has changed the political fabric of the nation, but Read More

1983
The Loveless

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Robert Gordon, Marin Kanter, J. Don Ferguson

Synopsis: The period biker flick The Loveless marks the feature debut of both actor Willem Dafoe and writer/director Kathryn Bigelow (Strange Days). Bigelow co-wrote and co-directed the film with Monty Montgomery, who would go on to produce Wild at Heart and The Portrait of a Lady. Dafoe plays Vance, a Read More

1982