Jane Campion

Infobox actor


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birthdate = birth date and age|1954|4|30|df=y
location = Wellington, New Zealand
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academyawards = Best Original Screenplay
1993 "The Piano"
cesarawards = Best Foreign Film
1994 "The Piano"
afiawards = Best Original Screenplay
1989 "Sweetie
1993 "The Piano"
Best Director
1993 "The Piano"
Best Film
1993 "The Piano"
Byron Kennedy Award (1989)
spouse = Colin Englert (1992-)
awards = Palme d'Or - Cannes Film Festival
1986 "Peel" (short film)
1993 "The Piano"
Venice Silver Lion for the Grand Jury Prize
1990 "An Angel at My Table"

Jane Campion (born 30 April 1954 in Wellington, New Zealand) is an Academy Award-winning film maker. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia – where she now lives – and the U.S. Campion attended the Australian Film Television and Radio School early in its history, where she learned the craft that has resulted in a career that spans fourteen films as director, three as producer and eight as writer.

Biography

Campion was born in Wellington, New Zealand. She graduated in Anthropology from Victoria University of her birthtown in 1975 and with a painting major at the Sydney College of the Arts in 1979. She started at the movies in the early eighties at the Australian School of Film and Television.

Her first short film, "Peel" (1982) won the Palme D'Or at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival and other awards followed for the shorts "Passionless Moments" (1983) and "Girls Own Story" (1984). "Sweetie" (1989) was her feature debut, and won international awards. Further recognition followed with "An Angel at my Table" (1990), an autobiographical and psychological portrayal of the poet Janet Frame. International recognition followed with another Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1993 for "The Piano", which won the best director award from the Australian Film Institute and an Oscar for best screenplay in 1994. At the 66th Academy Awards she was the second woman ever to be nominated best director.

Campion's work since that time has tended to polarize opinion. "The Portrait of a Lady" (1996), based on the Henry James novel, featured Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey and Martin Donovan. "Holy Smoke!" (1999) teamed Campion again with Harvey Keitel, this time with Kate Winslet as the female lead. "In the Cut" (2003), an erotic thriller based on Susanna Moore's bestseller, provided Meg Ryan an opportunity to depart from her more familiar onscreen persona.

Campion was an executive producer for the 2006 documentary "".

She has a daughter named Alice.

elected filmography

Director

*"Sweetie" (1989)
*"An Angel at My Table" (1990) — based on the autobiography of Janet Frame
*"The Piano" (1993)
*"The Portrait of a Lady" (1996) — based on the novel by Henry James
*"Holy Smoke!" (1999)
*"In the Cut" (2003) — based on the novel by Susanna Moore
*"The Water Diary" (2006)
*"8" (2008)
*"Bright Star" (2009)

Producer

*"Soft Fruit" (2000)
*"" (2006)

ee also

*New Zealand Film Makers

Bibliography

Ellen Cheshire. Jane Campion. London: Pocket Essentials, 2000
V. W. Wexman. Jane Campion: Interviews. Roundhouse Publishing. 1999

External links

* [http://www.hlamgt.com.au/index.htm Jane Campion's Agent]
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* [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/campion.html Jane Campion Bibliography (via UC Berkeley]
* [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/campion.html Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database]