Kathryn Bigelow

Director of Near Dark - the first movie Mark Kermode and the Good Lady Professor Her Indoors went to see on a date - and The Hurt Locker. Famously the first woman to win the Best Director Oscar. Also famously underenthusiastic about talking to Simon Mayo.

Mark points out that she is an "oddly macho director" and that her movies are proof that machismo has nothing to do with gender.