Kathryn Bigelow

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Number 10: The Hurt Locker | The 2008 film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and stars Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker received widespread acclaim and won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Bigelow won the award for Best Director, making it the only film by a female director to win in either category.

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Number 10: The Hurt Locker | The 2008 film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and stars Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker received widespread acclaim and won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Bigelow won the award for Best Director, making it the only film by a female director to win in either category.

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This Aug. 5, 2017 photo released by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences shows director Kathryn Bigelow, second left, with actors from her latest film, "Detroit," from right, Will Poulter, Algee Smith and John Boyega and Academy Gold intern Jocelyn Contreras, left, as they take part in the Academy Gold internship program for undergraduate and graduate students at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif. (A.M.P.A.S. via AP)

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FILE - This Thursday, April 20, 2017 file photo provided by Strategy PR shows director Kathryn Bigelow at the Tribeca Film Festival Virtual Arcade in New York. A number of high-profile projects unveiled at the Tribeca Film Festival show the young medium pushing forward to unlock VR's power to create empathy, whether it's a Holocaust survivor or a crow voiced by John Legend. (Kathryn Bigelow/Strategy PR via AP)

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This Thursday, April 20, 2017 photo provided by Strategy PR shows director Kathryn Bigelow at the Tribeca Film Festival Virtual Arcade in New York. On Friday, the Oscar-winning director premiered her first VR experience, “The Protectors: Walk in the Rangers’ Shoes,” an 8-minute, 360-degree plunge into the lives of the Garamba National Park rangers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. National Geographic will release the film May 1 on the VR app Within, and on YouTube and Facebook360 the following week. (Kathryn Bigelow/Strategy PR via AP)

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Stationed in a covert base overseas, Jessica Chastain (center) plays a member of the elite team of spies and military operatives (Christopher Stanley, left, and Alex Corbet Burcher, right) who secretly devoted themselves to finding Osama Bin Laden in Columbia Pictures' electrifying new thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow, "Zero Dark Thirty."

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This film image released by Columbia Pictures shows a scene from "Zero Dark Thirty," directed by Kathryn Bigelow. In the secretive special operations community, officials are debating whether to tweak tactics for daring and risky missions involving hostage rescue and terrorist targeting that have been compromised by years of detailed news accounts and Hollywood portrayals. (Sony-Columbia Pictures via Associated Press)

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Rithy Panh, a Cambodian film director of Oscar-nominated foreign language film "The Missing Picture," and film director Kathryn Bigelow seen at 86th Academy Awards - Foreign Language Film Award Reception, on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2014 in Los Angeles, Calif. (Photo by Annie I. Bang /Invision/AP)

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National Edition News Cover for November 18, 2013 - Navy SEALs see slights with their successes: Navy SEALs raid Osama Bin Laden’s compound in “Zero Dark Thirty,” directed by Kathryn Bigelow. The film is among the American Film Institute’s Top 10 movies of the year announced Monday. (Columbia Pictures Industries via Associated Press)

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This undated publicity photo released by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. shows Navy SEALs seen through the greenish glow of night vision goggles, as they prepare to breach a locked door in Osama Bin Laden's compound in Columbia Pictures' hyper-realistic new action thriller from director Kathryn Bigelow, "Zero Dark Thirty." (AP Photo/Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Jonathan Olley)

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"Zero Dark Thirty" director Kathryn Bigelow, much-heralded for "The Hurt Locker," has fallen from favor among some in the Hollywood community for her new film's nonjudgmental take on what they regard as "torture." (Columbia Pictures)