New Zealander Jane Campion met expectations and succeeded Best Director Oscar Thanks to the ‘power of the dog’He managed to get a figurine again 28 years after ‘El Piano’.
Campion so third woman to gain recognition hollywood academy to the best addressAfter Kathryn Bigelow (‘In hostile land’) in 2010 and Chloé Zhao (‘Nomad Land’) who was crowned last year.
In this issue, he beat New Zealand filmmaker Kenneth Branagh (‘Belfast’); Steven Spielberg (“West Side Story”); Paul Thomas Anderson (‘Licorice Pizza’) and Ryusuke Hamaguchi (‘Drive My Car’).
Sometimes reading a folded paper and not being particularly nervous the director wanted to remember the rest of the finalists“Any of you could have won it,” he addressed.
Campion came to the Oscars with an impressive track record. It started by winning the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for best directing. and his work has been awarded at the acclaimed British Bafta, Golden Globes or the Directors Guild of America Critics’ Choice.
It did not disappoint at the Oscars and did the same, winning the second statuette after best original screenplay in 1994 for ‘El piano’.
“I love this profession because I can tell in-depth stories”announced the director of “The Power of the Dog,” a film that explores themes such as repressed sexuality or fragile masculinity, among other things.
“I want to thank all the professionals and friends I worked with on the film,” he continued, naming some, such as Campion, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, or Kodi Smit-McPhee.
this In 1994, a New Zealander became the second woman in Oscar history to be nominated for best director. She would be the first to win the statuette after Lina Wertmüller for ‘Pasqualino Settebellezze’ (1976), but Kathryn Bigelow for ‘The Hurt Locker’.
Thus, Campion is putting the finishing touches on a career that was not so extensive, but now includes important and profound works such as the award-winning ‘El poder del perro’.