Kathryn Bigelow News

August 11, 2011
Congressman Demands Probe of Kathryn Bigelow's Bin Laden Project
New York Congressman Peter King claims that government officials are giving the filmmakers classified information. More...

February 1, 2011
A Year Later, Still Waiting for "The Bigelow Effect"
A year after Kathryn Bigelow made history by winning her Best Director Oscar, a new study shows that women remain a rarity in Hollywood's top film jobs. More...

October 7, 2010
Johnny Depp and Tom Hanks Heading Into Bigelow's Triple Frontier?
Tom Hanks is set to star in Kathryn Bigelow's international crime drama "Triple Frontier" -- and Johnny Depp could be joining Hanks in the cast. More...

March 9, 2010
Where Does The Hurt Locker Rank Among the All-Time Best Pictures?
The Hurt Locker cleaned up on Oscar night, taking home six trophies, including Best Director for Kathryn Bigelow (the first woman to win the award) and Best Picture. The Academy has spoken -- but what do the critics have to say? Where does The Hurt Locker rank with the pundits among the Best Picture winners? Very highly, it turns out. At 97 percent, The Hurt Locker is the 13th best-reviewed Best Picture of all time -- one slot below Gone With the Wind and one above Casablanca (we're shocked -- shocked! -- at that fact as well). It's also the best-reviewed war film ever to win -- The Hurt Locker tops Schindler's List (number 15), Patton (number 16), The Best Years of Our Lives (number 19) and All Quiet on the Western Front (number 20). In other words, The Hurt Locker is in the company of some undisputed classics. But there's plenty more to explore -- take a tour of Oscar history with RT's Best of the Best Pictures countdown! More...

January 21, 2010
Five Acclaimed Directors, Speaking Directly
What do you do when you have James Cameron, Jason Reitman, Kathryn Bigelow, Quentin Tarantino, and Lee Daniels in the same room? Exactly what the Los Angeles Times did: Write down every word they say. More...

July 22, 2009
Inside The Hurt Locker with Writer Mark Boal
After spending time in 2004 as an embedded journalist in Iraq, Playboy writer Mark Boal turned his experiences and observations into a fictionalized character study of three bomb technicians in Baghdad. The result, the Certified Fresh film The Hurt Locker, has earned some of the biggest raves of the year from critics who hail Boal's riveting characterizations along with superbly tense direction from Kathryn Bigelow. More...

July 8, 2009
Five Favorite Films with Kathryn Bigelow
With her latest film, the critically acclaimed war film The Hurt Locker, director Kathryn Bigelow has earned the best reviews of her career to date. (At 95 percent, The Hurt Locker is also one of the best-reviewed films of the year.) True to her reputation for balancing muscular action with strong character drama, Bigelow injects moments of riveting tension into her study of volunteer bomb technician soldiers in Iraq. Rotten Tomatoes spoke with Bigelow recently in Los Angeles to learn more about the action-genre specialist's background, why she chose to make The Hurt Locker, based on embedded journalist Mark Boal's observations, and what films and filmmakers she cites among her favorites. More...

September 11, 2008
War Sells in Toronto
A pair of war-themed films -- Steven Soderbergh's "Che" and Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" -- found studio homes at Toronto earlier this week. More...

July 17, 2007
Kathryn Bigelow to Tackle Iraq War Drama
Jeremy Renner, Brian Geraghty, and Anthony Mackie have signed on to star in Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker. Plus, we can expect brief appearances from Ralph Fiennes and Guy Pearce. More...