At 20, She started her career as painter winning a scholarship to the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program in New York. She made her first short film in 1978 and graduated from Columbia's Film School. She has gone on to direct many Hollywood blockbusters including Point Break, Near Dark, Strange Days and Blue Steel and most notably the critically acclaimed Hurt Locker.

Kathryn is the only child of the manager of a paint factory and a librarian.

Says Kathryn:

'If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie, the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't. There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible. It is.'

Pinkstinks and cooltobe.me would love to see Kathryn walk away with this years Oscar for Best Director. Good Luck Kathryn.