Jane Campion
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| Jane Campion | |
| Born | 30 April 1954 Wellington, New Zealand |
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| Spouse(s) | Colin Englert (1992-divorced) |
Jane Campion (born 30 April 1954 in Wellington, New Zealand) is an Academy Award-winning film maker and screenplay writer. 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.
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[edit] Biography
Campion was born in Wellington, New Zealand. She graduated in Anthropology from Victoria University in 1975, and with a painting major at the Sydney College of the Arts in 1979. She started making films in the early eighties at the Australian Film Television and Radio School.
Her first short film, Peel (1982) won the Short Film 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 Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story.
She has a daughter named Alice (b. 1993).
[edit] Selected filmography
[edit] Director
- A Girl's Own Story (1984)
- 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
- Bright Star (2009)
[edit] Producer
- Soft Fruit (2000)
- Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2006)
[edit] See also
[edit] Bibliography
Ellen Cheshire. Jane Campion. London: Pocket Essentials, 2000
V. W. Wexman. Jane Campion: Interviews. Roundhouse Publishing. 1999
[edit] External links
- Jane Campion's Agent
- Jane Campion at the Internet Movie Database
- Jane Campion Myspace Fan Page
- Jane Campion at Allmovie
- Jane Campion Bibliography (via UC Berkeley
- Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database
- Biography of Jane Campion on NZ On Screen
| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by Neil Jordan for The Crying Game |
Academy Award for Writing, Best Original Screenplay 1993 for The Piano |
Succeeded by Quentin Tarantino (story and screenplay) and Roger Avary (story) for Pulp Fiction |
