Kathryn Bigelow’s first feature film, The Loveless, was made in 1981, the year she turned 30. She received her Oscar for The Hurt Locker when she was 58. Ava DuVernay’s first feature film, I Will Follow, was made in 2010, when she turned 38. And Emerald Fennell, Oscar-nominated this year for her first movie, Promising Young Woman, is 35.
