Kathryn Bigelow

Kathryn Bigelow aims to make 'entertaining and substantive' movies. She's scored on both counts with 'The Hurt Locker.' "Hurt Locker" screenwriter Mark Boal remembers running around the Jordanian desert with director Kathryn Bigelow, watching her scale hills in 115-degree heat to set up shots for their modestly budgeted film. By the end of the day, when...  

Avatar.” Category Awards → Best picture: "The Hurt Locker.” → Best director: Kathryn Bigelow, "The Hurt Locker.” → Best first feature: (tie) Neill Blomkamp, "District 9” and Marc Webb, "(500) Days of Summer.” → Best actress : Meryl ...  

Something's in the air as 2009 comes to a close. The Academy is going to nominate All About Steve star Sandra Bullock for Best Actress, though for a different film(of course). After hearing about the movie for ages, James Cameron finally (finally!) got Avatar to the big screen in dazzling fashion. And at long last we are going to have our first woman win an Oscar for Best Director ... and it's going to be for an action film. Of course I'm...  

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We culled through national movie critics' year-end "best" lists to come up with a list of our own, with movies more familiar to Midlands audiences."The Hurt Locker" / "In the Loop": The Iraq war, two ways: as action spectacle and as farce. Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" is a tour de force of high tension and directorial pyrotechnics wrapped around an astute and wrenching psychological drama. Its deep subject, embodied in the character of...  

1. The Hurt Locker: The decade's strongest Iraq movie is also the year's finest action flick, not to mention director Kathryn Bigelow's personal best. Working from Mark Boal's knowledgeable script, The Hurt Locker is impressively old-school in its construction o...  

This year's Golden Globes nominations indicate a not-bad year for women, including The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow and Precious's Mo'Nique and Gabourey Sidibe and their respective films. Bonus: Justin Timberlake yuks about John Krasinski getting laid tonight. In the Best Director category, Bigelow is up against heavyweights like Clint Eastwood (Invictus) and Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds), relative newbie Jason Reitman (Up...  

By Roger Ebert "The Hurt Locker," Kathryn Bigelow's compelling film about a death-defying bomb disposal unit in Iraq, swept the field Monday as the 57 members of the Chicago Film Critics Association revealed their 2009 awards.  

Film News: Bigelow's war pic wins all of its nominations -- Chalk up another one for Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" - the helmer's tense Iraq war actioner swept the Chicago Film Critics' Association awards, announced Monday morning.  

The Las Vegas Film Critics Society selected “The Hurt Locker” as best film of 2009 and honored it in three other categories during its annual Sierra Awards voting Thursday. an intimate military drama focused on the lives of several U.S. soldiers serving in a bomb disposal squad in Iraq, led all films in society voting, taking a total of four awards. Along with the best picture honor, “Hurt Locker’s” Kathryn Bigelow was selected as best...  

Today, the New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO) voted “Avatar” its best picture of the year, naming Kathryn Bigelow best director for “The Hurt Locker”. Full list of winners: Picture “Avatar” Actor Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart” Actress Meryl Streep, “Julie & Julia” Director Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker” Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds” Supporting Actress Mo’Nique, “Precious” Breakthrough Performer Christoph Waltz...  

The Hurt Locker has won another major film prize from the Austin Film Critics Association in Texas. The hard-hitting war movie has been named the group's Best Film of 2009, while director Kathryn Bigelow picked up the organisation's Best Director award. The film also landed a Best Cinematography award. Inglourious Basterds was also a three-win film...  

Kathryn Bigelow chalks up another honor today for her film The Hurt Locker. Bigelow won the New York Film Critics Circle’s award for best picture of 2009 and best director honors as well.  George Clooney won the actor prize for both Up in the Air and his vocal turn in Fantastic Mr. Fox while the movie [...]  

The Hurt Locker is picking up critical momentum as Hollywood heads into Academy Awards season. After being nabbing the "best film" prize from the LA Film Critics Association, director Kathryn Bigelow's taut Iraq war drama has been named best film by the New York Film Critics Circle, which declared Bigelow best director. The NYFCC voted George Clooney best actor for Up in the Air and Fantastic Mr. Fox, Meryl Streep won best actress for Julie...  

The Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" added to its award-season momentum, winning best film from the New York Film Critics Circle. The group, which announced its selections Monday, also awarded best director to Kathryn Bigelow of "The Hurt Locker." Those choices mirrored the selections of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, which were announced Sunday.