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Jane Campion receives with her prize on the Piazza Grande during the 77th Locarno International Film Festival, in Locarno

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.

  • Stephanie Bunbury

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Louise Bourgeois and Jane Campion.

‘Broken, mysterious, wounded, angry’: The artist who changed me

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‘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.

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Alice Englert grew up on film sets, now she has her debut feature film screening at the Sydney Film Festival.

‘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.

  • Robert Moran
Jane Campion directing a scene from “The Piano”.

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.

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‘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 ...

  • Konrad Marshall
See a retrospective of films by pioneering filmmaker Jane Campion at the 70th Sydney Film Festival.
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Trailer: Jane Campion - Her Way

See a retrospective of films by pioneering filmmaker Jane Campion at the 70th Sydney Film Festival.

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‘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.

  • Michael Idato
Jane Campion with the Oscar for best director for The Power of the Dog.

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.

  • Garry Maddox

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