Kathryn Bigelow

  Born Kathryn Ann Bigelow has an estimated net worth of $14 million. Bigelow,  first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and television director. She has earned her net worth from her works as a film director and producer beginning in 1978. Her first work as  director was about  a 20-minute deconstruction of violence in film, "The Set-Up."  She followed it with  full-length feature,  The Loveless in 1982 where she was co- director  with Monty Montgomery.  Her  trilogy of action films including Blue Steel, Point Break, and Strange Days made her  recognizable as both a Hollywood brand and an auteur.  Her  most profitable 'studio' film was  Point Break which grossed to about   $100 million at the American box-office in 1991.  She made history when  her 2008 film,  The Hurt Locker  won her an   Academy Award for Best Director. In 2012, her film  Zero Dark Thirty won her   the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director and the National Board of Review Award for Best Director. Her other works included  modeling for a Gap advertisement in the 80s and acting on Lizzie Borden's 1983 film Born in Flames -  as a feminist newspaper editor.