Monday, Mar. 28, 2022

Jane Campion's sabbatical from moviemaking left the respect and admiration of her peers undiminished.

Campion, whose last feature film was 2009's "Bright Star," was honored as best director at Sunday's Academy Awards for the unconventional Western "The Power of the Dog."

The 67-...

Sunday, Mar. 27, 2022

After a movie year often light on crowds, the Academy Awards named an unabashed crowd-pleaser, the deaf family drama “CODA,” best picture Sunday, handing Hollywood’s top award to a streaming service for the first time.

Sian Heder’s “CODA,” which first premiered at a virtual Sundance Film...

Sunday, Mar. 13, 2022

Jane Campion won the marquee feature film honor at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards last night (3/12) for The Power of the Dog (Netflix). She becomes just the third woman to earn the top DGA prize. Kathryn Bigelow was the first woman director to score the kudo for The...

Tuesday, Mar. 1, 2022

Writer-director Siân Heder’s CODA earned Best Picture distinction at the 5th annual Hollywood Critics Association Film Awards held at the Avalon Hollywood in Los Angeles on Monday (2/28). CODA also won for Best Adapted Screenplay (Heder) and Supporting Actor (Troy Kotsur)....

Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022

After a pandemic year that hobbled movie theaters and saw streaming services make new inroads into Hollywood, the Academy Awards put its strongest support Tuesday behind two films made with big-screen grandeur that were also streamed into homes: Jane Campion's gothic western "The Power of the...

Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022

The field of feature film nominees for the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards is set. Nominees for the DGA honor for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for 2021 are: Paul Thomas Anderson for Licorice Pizza; Kenneth Branagh for Belfast; Jane...

Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022

Today (1/27) Peter Sciberras picked up his first career American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Award nomination. It came in the best edited dramatic feature category for his cutting of writer-director Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog (Netflix), adding to an awards season momentum for...

Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021

The U.K.’s leading film critics have unveiled the nominations for the 42nd annual London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, with three films from female filmmakers coming out on top. Leading the field is director Jane Campion’s psychological western The Power of the Dog, which scored nine nominations...

Friday, Nov. 19, 2021

For cinematographer Ari Wegner, the opportunity to work with legendary filmmaker Jane Campion initially came in a short burst and grew years later to a feature-length film which has garnered great acclaim on the current festival circuit.

The short-term collaboration took the form of a...

Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021

Jane Campion and Kirsten Dunst admired one another before they'd ever met, but it was Campion who made the first move. 

She was enamored of Sofia Coppola's "The Virgin Suicides" and wrote Dunst a letter. There were talks of adapting an Alice Munro story, but it would be years until they'd...

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