22 Facts About Jane Campion

Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion was born on 30 April 1954 and is a New Zealand filmmaker.

Jane Campion is best known for writing and directing the critically acclaimed films The Piano and The Power of the Dog, for which she has received two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards.

Jane Campion is a groundbreaking female director, as of 2022 the only woman to be nominated twice for Academy Award for Best Director, and the first female filmmaker to receive the Palme d'Or.

Jane Campion made history at the 94th Academy Awards when she won Best Director for The Power of the Dog, as the oldest female director to win and the first woman to win Academy Awards for both directing and screenwriting in her different films.

Jane Campion broke the same barrier at the 78th Venice International Film Festival when she won the Silver Lion award.

Jane Campion is the third woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award for Feature Film.

Jane Campion co-created the television series Top of the Lake and received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

Jane Campion's father came from a family that belonged to the fundamentalist Christian Exclusive Brethren sect.

Jane Campion attended Queen Margaret College and Wellington Girls' College.

Jane Campion initially rejected the idea of a career in the dramatic arts and graduated instead with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Victoria University of Wellington in 1975.

Jane Campion earned a graduate diploma in visual arts from the Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney in 1981.

At the 66th Academy Awards, Jane Campion was the second woman ever to be nominated for Best Director for her movie The Piano.

Jane Campion was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special.

Jane Campion was the head of the jury for the Cinefondation and Short Film sections at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and the head of the jury for the main competition section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2014, it was announced that Jane Campion was nearing a deal to direct an adaptation of Rachel Kushner's novel The Flamethrowers.

In 2015, Jane Campion confirmed that she would co-direct and co-write a second season of Top of the Lake with the story moved to Sydney and Harbour City, Hong Kong, and with Elisabeth Moss reprising her role as Robin Griffin.

The film was written and directed by her and was released in 2021, having premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival, where Jane Campion was awarded the Silver Lion for Best Direction.

Jane Campion earned three nominations in the respective categories for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Picture at the Golden Globe Awards, AACTA International Awards, Critics' Choice Movie Awards, and Satellite Awards.

Jane Campion became the first woman to receive multiple Best Director nominations, and she won Best Director for the film.

Jane Campion is the first woman to win Best Director without winning a corresponding Best Picture.

In 1992, Jane Campion married Colin David Englert, an Australian who worked as a second unit director on The Piano.

Jane Campion was appointed a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2016 New Year Honours, for services to film.