Jane Campion
Jane Campion receives lifetime achievement gong, and teases a return to filmmaking
Jane Campion, the director of The Piano and The Power of the Dog, has won the lifetime achievement award at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
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She’s been a movie star since she was 11, but it’s only now, 30 years later, that the actor feels that she’s arrived.
- by Michael Idato
‘Broken, mysterious, wounded, angry’: The artist who changed me
Oscar-winning film director Jane Campion on the woman who has inspired her work, and life.
- by Jane Campion
‘I love that kind of brutal honesty’: Jennifer Connelly embraces her bad side
The Oscar-winning actress throws herself into the role of an unhinged mother in Bad Behaviour, the debut feature from Jane Campion’s daughter, Alice Englert.
- by Karl Quinn
‘A severe case of nepotism’: Alice Englert’s journey from ‘film brat’ to filmmaker
She grew up on the sets of her mother Jane Campion’s films, before falling into a successful acting career. Now she has her debut feature Bad Behaviour premiering at the Sydney Film Festival.
- by Robert Moran
From the Archives, 1993: Campion’s Piano a Cannes success
In 1993, ‘The Piano’ became the first Australian film to win the Palme d’Or while New Zealand-born Jane Campion became the first woman director to win the prize.
- by Lynden Barber and Agencies
‘Please don’t catch anyone’s eye’, and other Campion film-set rules
Some film school teachers had “no great belief or hope” in Jane Campion. Two Oscars later ...
- by Konrad Marshall
Trailer: Jane Campion - Her Way
See a retrospective of films by pioneering filmmaker Jane Campion at the 70th Sydney Film Festival.
‘We have our own voice’: Australian Oscar-winner who filmed Dune on backing local storytelling
The cinematographer talks about winning gold, his fanboy film life and the slap that was heard around the world.
- by Michael Idato
From most-nominated to shut out: What happened to The Power of the Dog?
Other than Jane Campion’s well-deserved win for best director, the acclaimed western did not win another award.
- by Garry Maddox
Jane Campion wins best director but CODA grabs the limelight – and Will Smith the headlines
The Power of the Dog was tipped out by a heartwarming comic drama about a hearing teenager in a deaf family.
- by Garry Maddox
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