Catherine Bigelow | The great films of the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Director

The daughter of a librarian and a paint factory manager, Kathryn Bigelow was born in a northern California town called San Carlos. He has always had a passion for painting, which is why, in college, he enrolled in the San Francisco Art Institute in the early 1970s and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

Until then the cinema had not crossed his life. But unable to live very well on his career choice, he decided to enroll in the graduate film program at Columbia University, where he studied theory and criticism in addition to completing his master’s degree. So, almost in the 80s, he directed his first short film. After a few years already in the film industry, he released one of his first works, the feature film about the vampires who terrorize a country town, When it comes to darkness.

But he began to gain recognition when in 1991 he directed young Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves in one of the great action films of the 90s, Chasers of Thrills. After having produced other excellent works, in 2010 she was the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Director, for the film War on Terror.

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To suggest some great movies from Bigelow’s career, we’ve made a list below:

When the darkness comes

In one of her first films as a director, in the late 1980s, the action-packed drama When Darkness Comes hit theaters in some countries. In the plot, we meet a man who is seduced by a vampire and ends up joining a gang of vampires who terrorize cities in the interior of the United States. Available in the Télécinéma catalog.

Emotion hunters

One of the great action movies of the 90s (and we can also say in the history of North American cinema), Hunters of Emotion brings together a strong story, charismatic characters, action, adventure, we shows the limits of friendship, the limits of law, several points of reflection brought together in a thrilling film with Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves. Available in the Globoplay, Telecine and Amazon Prime Video catalog.

K-19: The Widowmaker

Released in 2002 and set during the conflicting days of the Cold War, K-19: The Widowmaker, starring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson, tells the saga of the crew members given a mission: to test the submarine nuclear K-19 in deep water, only that due to serious technical problems, solutions become complicated with the risk of a huge explosion and even start a war.

war on terror

One of the biggest surprises in Oscar history, Guerra ao Terror is a film released on DVD in Brazil but re-released in theaters due to the nominations it received from the academy. Budgeted at $ 15 million and winning six Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director (becoming the first director to win the Director’s Award), the film tells the story revolves around a group of soldiers who make up one of the US Army’s demining teams. and face countless hardships in a role they’ll never know tomorrow. The film kicked off the career of actor Jeremy Renner. Available in the Netflix and Amazon Prime Video catalog.

The darkest hour

This work by director Kathryn Bigelow came to shock and show the public the secret operation that led to the capture of the greatest terrorist of recent times. With a screenplay by knowledgeable Mark Boal, The Darkest Hour is not an easy movie to digest. The movie buff must sometimes have a lot of patience and a stomach. It’s the kind of movie that sells a lot more there than it does here, so maybe it wasn’t in high demand. Because the Academy loves this kind of work, it received a few Oscar nominations years ago. From the start, with the real and terrifying screams of that morning of September 11, 2001, the viewer begins to understand what this story is really about. Available in the Netflix catalog.

Detroit in rebellion

The unturned pages of timeless absurdity. Making beautiful films in sequence, The Darkest Hour, War on Terror, the excellent Californian filmmaker brings to the public a story based on facts that have occurred, on the actions of elements of the police in a hotel, in the middle of a Detroit disturbed. by chaos in the streets in 1967. Detroit in Rebellion explores the prejudices suffered by the black population in a completely ungoverned city and with controversial police actions. The screenplay is by excellent New Yorker Mark Boal (The Darkest Hour, War on Terror), who turns the dramatic charge into an explosive film that never takes his eyes off the screen. Available in the Télécinéma catalog.

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