New Zealand director Jane Campion attends the 94th Oscars on the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 27, 2022.
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Jane Campion has as soon as once more written her identify into the Oscars historical past books. The New Zealander took house greatest director at Sunday’s ceremony, turning into solely the third girl to win the award, behind The Hurt Locker’s Katheryn Bigelow and Nomadland’s Chloé Zhao.
Campion’s simmering western The Power of the Dog noticed her take house the highest directing prize over Steven Spielberg (West Side Story), Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza), Kenneth Branagh (Belfast) and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car). She was the one girl to be nominated within the class.
Campion can also be the one girl to be nominated for greatest director twice. She scored her first nod in 1994 for interval drama The Piano. While she did not take house the directing prize, she gained her first Oscar for greatest unique screenplay.
“It’s each unhappy however it’s additionally nice that girls are punching that cup ceiling out of the best way. I actually really feel issues are altering,” Campion instructed Variety of her directing nomination. “We’re not there but. But, I’d say that it is the finish of apartheid for the business in the case of gender.”
The Power of the Dog led nominations with 12, together with for greatest image, actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, supporting actress for Kristen Dunst, supporting actor for Kodi Smit-McPhee and Jesse Plemons, tailored screenplay, modifying, rating and cinematography. Surprisingly, Campion’s greatest director win was the one success for the Western on the night time.
Only seven girls have been nominated for greatest director: Lina Wertmüller for Seven Beauties, Campion for The Piano and The Power of the Dog, Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation, Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker, Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird, Chloé Zhao for Nomadland and Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman.
Campion unfolded the director’s chair to supervise The Power of the Dog greater than a decade after her earlier function movie, Bright Star. The western facilities on Phil Burbank, a rancher who torments his youthful brother and his new spouse, however develops an advanced curiosity in her effeminate son.
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