Kathryn Bigelow: The Sexiest Storyteller in Hollywood Captures Her Moment in History

She directed The Hurt Locker, Point Break AND a New Order video. So I guess my only question is: “Is Kathryn Bigelow single?”

I can not tell you how happy I am that she won the Oscar for Best Director and Best Picture for what is clearly one of the greatest war films of all time. For a movie centered around explosives, The Hurt Locker is incredibly quiet, close and personal. It’s a story about losing your identity in exchange for another—and coming to grips with it, whether you like it or not. The visuals read like a poem, and the characters become hauntingly familiar—people that could live next door to any of us, thrust into a situation bigger than themselves.

It would be nice to think that we live in a time where women are recognized for their talent, vision and leadership—where emotional intelligence, candor and grace are regarded as a professional standard. But if we look around, it’s easy to see we still have a long way to go. In that regard, Kathryn Bigelow’s achievement has moved us one important step forward, and has opened up new opportunities for women’s voices to be heard. The fact that she’s 58 and radiant as ever is a testament to the light she carries within her, and that which she shares with all of us through her work.