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FILM DIRECTOR

Kathryn Bigelow

1951 - Today

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Kathryn Ann Bigelow (; born November 27, 1951) is an American filmmaker. Bigelow has received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010.Bigelow made her directorial film debut with the outlaw biker film The Loveless (1981). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kathryn Bigelow has received more than 6,273,452 page views. Her biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Kathryn Bigelow is the 169th most popular film director (down from 155th in 2019), the 1,094th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,008th in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Film Director.

Kathryn Bigelow is most famous for being the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director. She directed the 2009 film The Hurt Locker, which won six Academy Awards.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Kathryn Bigelow ranks 169 out of 1,581Before her are Jacques Rivette, Nagisa Oshima, William Friedkin, Masaki Kobayashi, Alexander Dovzhenko, and Jonathan Demme. After her are Bille August, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jesús Franco, Nikita Mikhalkov, Claude Lanzmann, and Robert Aldrich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Kathryn Bigelow ranks 30Before her are Jane Seymour, Paul Breitner, Traian Băsescu, Bob Geldof, Anjelica Huston, and Gordon Brown. After her are Chris Rea, David Coverdale, Jill Biden, Kenny Dalglish, Jaco Pastorius, and Blaise Compaoré.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kathryn Bigelow ranks 1,094 out of 18,182Before her are Éamon de Valera (1882), Edmund Phelps (1933), Douglas Fairbanks (1883), Jonathan Demme (1944), James Jones (1921), and Edmund Kemper (1948). After her are Sugar Ray Robinson (1921), Roger Zelazny (1937), Larry Page (1973), Bob Kahn (1938), George Stinney (1929), and Robin Cook (1940).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Kathryn Bigelow ranks 46Before her are Blake Edwards (1922), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909), Ed Wood (1924), Robert Wise (1914), William Friedkin (1935), and Jonathan Demme (1944). After her are Robert Aldrich (1918), Don Siegel (1912), James Ivory (1928), Vincente Minnelli (1903), Stanley Kramer (1913), and Nicholas Ray (1911).

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