Film director Kathy Bigelow has directed many films throughout the years, and most of which we know the names. Films such as: "Point Break", "Hurt Locker", and "Zero Dark Thirty". Bigelow was the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director in the film "Hurt Locker", but her astonishing directing abilities did not stop there.
Bigelow was born on November 27, 1951, in San Carlos, California and is known for her incredible action films with amazing visual effects, and action sequences."Bigelow studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute after finishing high school. Winning a scholarship, she then moved to New York City to attend the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of Art in 1972. Bigelow eventually changed her focus to another visual medium: film." Bigelow was inspired to study art from her father who liked to draw cartoons, "'His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it ... I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have,'she later told Newsweek". …show more content…
"Near Dark" was at times a cringe-worthy vampire movie unlike any that people had seen at that time, and with her blood, and gore scenes her film is still making people cringe. Bigelow did not stop there, in fact, her next film is in my opinion, one of her best, and in 1991 she released "Point break". Furthermore, this film is a must see to this day, with great action sequences and a thought out plot, but this story of surfer bank robbers is truly set apart from the others with Bigelow's fantastic
Bigelow was born on November 27, 1951, in San Carlos, California and is known for her incredible action films with amazing visual effects, and action sequences."Bigelow studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute after finishing high school. Winning a scholarship, she then moved to New York City to attend the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of Art in 1972. Bigelow eventually changed her focus to another visual medium: film." Bigelow was inspired to study art from her father who liked to draw cartoons, "'His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it ... I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have,'she later told Newsweek". …show more content…
"Near Dark" was at times a cringe-worthy vampire movie unlike any that people had seen at that time, and with her blood, and gore scenes her film is still making people cringe. Bigelow did not stop there, in fact, her next film is in my opinion, one of her best, and in 1991 she released "Point break". Furthermore, this film is a must see to this day, with great action sequences and a thought out plot, but this story of surfer bank robbers is truly set apart from the others with Bigelow's fantastic