Description:
A very talented painter, Kathryn spent two years at the San Francisco Art Institute. At 20, she won a scholarship to the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program. She was given a studio in a former Offtrack Betting building, literally in an old bank vault, where she made art and waited to be critiqued by people like Richard Serra, Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Sontag. Later she earned a scholarship to study film at Columbia University School of Arts, graduating in 1979. She was also a member of the British avant garde cultural group, Art and Language. Kathryn is the only child of the manager of a paint factory and a librarian.
Birthday
November 27, 1951
Born In
San Carlos, California, USA
Height
182 cm
Parents
Gertrude Kathryn Bigelow
Trivia
Competed with ex-husband James Cameron for the Best Director Oscar in 2010. This marked the first time that (ex-) spouses were nominated alongside each other in this category. She went on to win the award--the first woman director to do so.
Quotes
If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose
to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my
gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. It's irrelevant who or what
directed a movie, the important thing is that you either respond to it
or you don't. There should be more women directing; I think there's
just not the awareness that it's really possible. It is.
Trademarks
Frequently casts Tom Sizemore
