New Zealand film director, screenwriter and producer
Dame
Jane Campion
DNZM
Campion in 2016
Born
Elizabeth Jane Campion
(1954-04-30) 30 April 1954 (age 70)
Wellington, New Zealand
Occupations
Screenwriter
producer
director
Known for
The Piano
The Power of the Dog
Spouse
Colin David Englert
(m. 1992; div. 2001)
Children
2, including Alice Englert
Parents
Richard Campion (father)
Edith Campion (mother)
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Dame Elizabeth Jane CampionDNZM (born 30 April 1954) is a New Zealand filmmaker.[1] She is best known for writing and directing the critically acclaimed films The Piano (1993) and The Power of the Dog (2021), for which she has received two Academy Awards (including Best Director for the latter), two BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Campion was appointed a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (DNZM) in the 2016 New Year Honours, for services to film.
Campion is a groundbreaking female director, as of 2022[update] the only woman to be nominated twice for Academy Award for Best Director (winning once), and the first female filmmaker to receive the Palme d'Or (for The Piano, which also won her the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay).[2] She made history at the 94th Academy Awards when she won Best Director for The Power of the Dog (2021), as the oldest female director to win, the first woman to win Academy Awards for both directing and screenwriting in her different films, and the first woman not to win Best Picture after winning Best Director. She broke the same barrier at the 78th Venice International Film Festival when she won the Silver Lion award. She is the third woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award for Feature Film.
Campion is also known for directing the films An Angel at My Table (1990), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), Holy Smoke! (1998), and Bright Star (2009). She also co-created the television series Top of the Lake (2013) and received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
^Fox, Alistair (2011). Jane Campion: Authorship and Personal Cinema. Indiana University Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-0253223012. Archived from the original on 13 September 2021. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
^"'Piano's' Jane Campion Is First Female Director to Win; 'Concubine's' Chen Kaige Has First Chinese-Film Victory: 'Piano', 'Concubine', Share the Palme D'Or" Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 1993; retrieved 6 May 2012.
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