Her best-known films are the cult horror film Near Dark (1987), the surfer/bank robbery action picture Point Break (1991), the science fiction/film noir Strange Days (1995), the historical/mystery film The Weight of Water (2000) and the war drama The Hurt Locker (2008). The Hurt Locker won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Picture, won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and was nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Drama. She enrolled at San Francisco Art Institute in the fall of 1970 and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in December 1972. Bigelow’s first short film, The Set-Up (1978), is a 20-minute deconstruction of violence in film. in 1993, she directed an episode of the TV series Wild Palms. Based on Anita Shreve’s novel of the same name, Bigelow’s 2000 film The Weight of Water is a portrait of two women trapped in suffocating relationships.
