NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art’s third
annual Film Benefit, to be held on November 10, will honor
writer-director
Kathryn Bigelow. Renowned for her Academy Award-winning film The Hurt
Locker
(2008), for over 30 years Bigelow has crafted a body of films that defy
genre
and gender expectations including such acclaimed works as Near Dark
(1987),
Point Break (1991), and Strange Days (1995). As the first female
director to
garner directing awards by the Academy, BAFTA, and the DGA, Bigelow
creates
immersive movies that leave the viewer simultaneously exhilarated and
affected,
thinking, and feeling, while transforming the language of genre films to
serve
her content.