Hollywood's top female action director Kathryn Bigelow will receive the ShoWest Triumph Award For Outstanding Direction in Las Vegas on April 2.

Bigelow's latest film The Hurt Locker, an Iraq-set thriller about a
bomb disposal unit that stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and Brian
Geraghty, will open through Summit Entertainment on June 26.

Her credits include Strange Days, Point Break, Blue Steel, K19: The
Widowmaker, Near Dark and The Weight Of Water.

'Kathryn touches each film she directs with a clarity that is
unprecedented,' ShoWest co-managing director Mitch Neuhauser said.

ShoWest runs from March 30-April 2.

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