List of awards and nominations received by Kathryn Bigelow

Kathryn Bigelow awards and nominations
Award
Awards and nominations
Award	Wins
Totals
Wins	47
Nominations	58
	Note ↑ Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.;

Last updated October 02, 2025

This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Kathryn Bigelow.

Bigelow won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director for the war drama The Hurt Locker (2009). She was Oscar-nominated for the war thriller Zero Dark Thirty (2012). She won two BAFTA Awards for Best Film and Best Direction for The Hurt Locker. She was BAFTA-nominated for Zero Dark Thirty. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director for both The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty.

For her work with television, at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards, she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking for producing the Netflix documentary film Cartel Land (2016).

Major associations

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2009	Best Picture	The Hurt Locker	Won	^[1]
2009	Best Director	The Hurt Locker	Won	^[1]
2012	Best Picture	Zero Dark Thirty	Nominated	^[2]

BAFTA Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
British Academy Film Awards
2009	Best Film	The Hurt Locker	Won	^[3]
2009	Best Direction	The Hurt Locker	Won	^[3]
2012	Best Film	Zero Dark Thirty	Nominated	^[4]
2012	Best Direction	Zero Dark Thirty	Nominated	^[4]

Emmy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Primetime Emmy Awards
2016	Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking	Cartel Land	Won	^[5]

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2009	Best Director	The Hurt Locker	Nominated	^[6]
2012	Best Director	Zero Dark Thirty	Nominated	^[6]

Venice Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2009	Human Rights Film Network Award	The Hurt Locker	Won	^[7]
	Sergio Trasatti Award		Won
	Arca Cinemagiovani Award		Won
	SIGNIS Award		Won
	Young Cinema Award		Won
2012	Golden Lion	Zero Dark Thirty	Nominated

Miscellaneous awards

Organizations	Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
AFI Dallas International Film Festival	2008	Dallas Star Award	The Hurt Locker	Won
Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award	2008	Best Director		Won
		Best Picture		Won
		Best Woman Director		Won
		Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry		Won
		Women's Image Award		Won
	2012	Best of the Fests		Nominated
	2012	Perseverance Award		Nominated
American Film Institute	2009	Top 10 Films of 2009		Won
Austin Film Critics Association Awards	2009	Best Director		Won
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards	2009	Best Director		Won
Broadcast Film Critics Association	2009	Best Director		Won
Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival	1988	Silver Raven	Near Dark	Won
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards	2009	Best Director		Won
Columbia University	2009	"Andrew Sarris" Award		Won
Denver Film Critics Society Awards	2009	Best Director	The Hurt Locker	Won
Directors Guild of America Awards	2009	Outstanding Directing – Feature Film		Won
Hollywood Film Festival Award	2009	Director of the Year		Won
Houston Film Critics Society Awards	2009	Best Director		Won
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards	2009	Best Director		Won	^[8]
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards	2009	Best Director		Won
London Film Critics' Circle Awards	2009	Director of the Year		Won
National Society of Film Critics Awards	2009	Best Director		Won
New York Film Critics Circle Awards	2009	Best Director		Won
New York Film Critics Online	2009	Best Director		Won
Oklahoma Film Critics Circle	2009	Best Director		Won	^[9]
Online Film Critics Society	2009	Best Director		Won
Paris International Fantastic and Science Fiction Film Festival	1988	Golden Unicorn		Won	^[10]^[11]
Producers Guild of America Awards	2009	Best Theatrical Motion Picture		Won
Rome Film Festival	2017	BNL People's Choice Award	Detroit	Nominated
San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards	2009	Best Director	The Hurt Locker	Won
Santa Barbara International Film Festival	2009	Outstanding Director of the Year		Won
Satellite Awards	2009	Best Director		Won
San Sebastián International Film Festival	2000	Golden Shell Award	The Weight of Water	Won
Saturn Awards	1988	Best Director	Near Dark	Nominated
	1995	Best Director	Strange Days	Won
	2009	Best Director	The Hurt Locker	Nominated
Seattle International Film Festival	2009	Best Director, Golden Space Needle Award		Won
Southeastern Film Critics Association	2009	Best Director		Won
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association	2009	Best Director		Won
Vancouver Film Critics Circle	2009	Best Director		Won
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards	2009	Best Director		Won

References

↑ "82nd Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . Retrieved September 14, 2024.
↑ "85th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . Retrieved September 14, 2024.
↑ "2009 British Academy Film Awards". British Academy Film Awards . Retrieved September 14, 2024.
↑ "2012 British Academy Film Awards". British Academy Film Awards . Retrieved September 14, 2024.
↑ "Kathryn Bigelow". Television Academy . Retrieved October 21, 2019.
1 2 "Kathryn Bigelow - Golden Globes". Golden Globe Awards . Retrieved September 14, 2024.
↑ "2008 Venice International Film Festival". Internet Movie Database . Retrieved September 14, 2024.
↑ "KCFCC Award Winners – 2000-09". December 14, 2013. Archived from the original on August 27, 2017. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
↑ "Awards". Oklahoma Film Critics Circle.
↑ "Near Dark (1987)". AFI Catalog. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
↑ "Festival International de Paris du Film Fantastique et de Science Fiction". December 4, 2018. Retrieved August 2, 2021.

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[1] Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

[2] "82nd Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . Retrieved September 14, 2024.

[3] "85th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . Retrieved September 14, 2024.

[4] "2009 British Academy Film Awards". British Academy Film Awards . Retrieved September 14, 2024.

[5] "2012 British Academy Film Awards". British Academy Film Awards . Retrieved September 14, 2024.

[6] "Kathryn Bigelow". Television Academy . Retrieved October 21, 2019.

[globes-7] 1 2 "Kathryn Bigelow - Golden Globes". Golden Globe Awards . Retrieved September 14, 2024.

[8] "2008 Venice International Film Festival". Internet Movie Database . Retrieved September 14, 2024.

[9] "KCFCC Award Winners – 2000-09". December 14, 2013. Archived from the original on August 27, 2017. Retrieved May 16, 2018.

[10] "Awards". Oklahoma Film Critics Circle.

[11] "Near Dark (1987)". AFI Catalog. Retrieved August 2, 2021.

[12] "Festival International de Paris du Film Fantastique et de Science Fiction". December 4, 2018. Retrieved August 2, 2021.

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v t e Films directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Awards and nominations Unrealized projects
The Loveless (1981) Near Dark (1987) Blue Steel (1990) Point Break (1991) Strange Days (1995) The Weight of Water (2000) K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) The Hurt Locker (2008) Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Last Days (2014; short documentary) Detroit (2017) A House of Dynamite (2025)