# List of awards and nominations received by Kathryn Bigelow

This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Kathryn Bigelow.
Kathryn Bigelow is an American director and producer. Over her career she has received several awards including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and five prizes from the Venice Film Festival as well as nominations for two Golden Globe Awards.
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 |
| 2009 | Best Picture | The Hurt Locker | Won |
| 2009 | Best Director | The Hurt Locker | Won |
| 2012 | Best Picture | Zero Dark Thirty | Nominated |

### BAFTA Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| British Academy Film Awards |||||
| 2009 | Best Film | The Hurt Locker | Won |
| 2009 | Best Direction | The Hurt Locker | Won |
| 2012 | Best Film | Zero Dark Thirty | Nominated |
| 2012 | Best Direction | Zero Dark Thirty | Nominated |

### Emmy Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| Primetime Emmy Awards |||||
| 2016 | Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking | Cartel Land | Won | |

### Golden Globe Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 2009 | Best Director | The Hurt Locker | Nominated | |
| 2012 | Best Director | Zero Dark Thirty | Nominated | |

### Venice Film Festival

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

## Miscellaneous awards

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