Dame Jane J. Campion DNZM aka Englert
Born 1950s.
Ancestors 
Daughter of Richard Meckiff Campion ONZM
and Beverley Georgette (Hannah) Campion OBE
Sister of
[private brother (1940s - unknown)], [private sister (1950s - unknown)] and Michael Campion
Mother of
Jasper Englert and Alice Englert
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Biography
Jane Campion DNZM lived in Wellington, New Zealand.
Listed in the The 50 coolest Kiwis ever[1]
New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director based in Australia. Campion is the second of four women ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and is also the first female filmmaker in history to receive the Palme d'Or, which she received for directing the acclaimed film The Piano (1993), for which she also won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.[2]
She has received 2 Academy Awards, 2 BAFTA Awards, and 2 Golden Globe Awards for her critically acclaimed films, The Piano (1993), and The Power of the Dog (2021). She was appointed a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (DNZM) in the 2016 New Year Honours, for services to film.
As a ground-breaking female director she is currently the only woman to be nominated twice for Academy Award for Best Director (1 win). Also she is the first female filmmaker to receive the Palme d'Or for The Piano (1993) which also won her the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay making her the first woman to win Academy Awards for both directing and screenwriting. She is the first woman to win Academy Awards for both directing and screenwriting when she won Best Director for The Power of the Dog (2021) at the 94th Academy Awards. The same happened at the 78th Venice International Film Festival when she won the Silver Lion award and she is only the second woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award for Feature Film.
Other films she directed include An Angel at My Table (1990), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), Holy Smoke! (1998), and Bright Star (2009) and she co-created the television series Top of the Lake (2013).
Films
1989 Sweetie
1990 An Angel at My Table
1993 The Piano
1996 The Portrait of a Lady
1999 Holy Smoke!
Soft Fruit
2003 In the Cut
2006 Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
2009 Bright Star
2021 The Power of the Dog
Short films
1980 Tissues
1981 Mishaps of Seduction and Conquest
1982 Peel: An Exercise in Discipline
1983 Passionless Moments
1984 A Girl's Own Story
After Hours
2006 The Water Diary8
2007 The Lady Bug
2012 I'm the One
2016 Family Happiness
Television
1986 Two Friends
2013 Top of the Lake (Co-directed with Garth Davis)
2017 Top of the Lake: China Girl (Co-directed with Ariel Kleiman)
Sources
- ↑ http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11240464&ref=NZH_FBpage
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Campion
- Sourced Wright family tree from the Wright family in the UK Peter Wright Wright-32103; youngest son of William Wright Wright-32062 & Mary Wright Gray-20188
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Campion
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60562041
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Gillian Thomas
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Campion-423 and Campion-156 appear to represent the same person because: These seems to be the same person. Same parents. Thanks!
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