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JaneCampion

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Jane Campion is one of the most dynamic — and applauded — filmmakers to emerge from Australasia. Her CV includes Cannes-winning road trip Peel, An Angel at My Table, based on the life of writer Janet Frame, Golden Globe winner The Power of the Dog, and miniseries Top of the Lake. With her twisted settler romance The Piano (1993), she became the first woman to take the top award at the Cannes Film Festival. 

Screenography

Jane Campion, The Cinema Woman
2022 Subject Film
The Power of the Dog
2021 Director, Writer, Producer Film
Family Happiness
2017 Executive Producer Short film
They
2017 Executive Producer Film
Top of the Lake
2013 - 2017 Creator, Director, Writer, Executive Producer Series

Biography

Jane Campion is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers to emerge from Australasia. Her depiction of strong (usually female) lead characters rebelling against stereotypical roles has attracted singular praise, as have her storytelling techniques: original and striking visual compositions, a non-linear editing style and moments of narrative ambiguity.

Awards

2022 Academy Awards (United States)
Best Director: for The Power of the Dog
Nominated for Motion Picture of the Year: for The Power of the Dog
Nominated for Adapted Screenplay: for The Power of the Dog

“[Jane Campion] has never made an uninteresting or unchallenging film … The Piano is as peculiar and haunting as any film I've seen.”

— Legendary American critic Roger Ebert on The Piano, November 1993