Award Winning Filmmaker
New Zealander Jane Campion is one of only two female filmmakers to have ever been nominated for an Academy Award (the other was Italian director Lina Wertmuller in 1976 for Seven Beauties). Campion, nominated in 1993 for The Piano, didn't win the filmmaker award, but did take home the Oscar for best screenplay. She was also recognised at Cannes, where she was the first woman to receive the prestigious Palme d'Or for directing. The Piano was filmed 40 minutes out of New Zealand's largest city, Auckland, on the rugged west coast beach of Karekare, and in its surrounding bush. (Karekare was also the inspiration for top New Zealand band Crowded House's Together Alone album.) The Piano was an extraordinarily successful film that starred not just breathtaking New Zealand scenery but the talent of the new generation - Anna Paquin, who won an Academy Award for her performance - Campion, and the well-established and successful Hollywood star, New Zealander Sam Neill. Campion was born in Wellington, New Zealand's capital city, and graduated in anthropology from Victoria University. Her first film was a short film called Sweetie which won several international awards, including the LA Film Critics' New Generation Award in 1990. Her second An Angel At My Table was based on the biographies of renowned New Zealand author Janet Frame and won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Kiwi actress Kerry Fox earned international recognition for her performance in the film.
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