Widespread recognition followed with The Piano (1993), which won the Palme d'Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, Best Director from the Australian Film Institute, and an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1994.

Further recognition came with An Angel at My Table (1990), a biopic about the life of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, from a screenplay written by Laura Jones. Her feature debut, Sweetie (1989), won international awards. After leaving the Australian Film and Television School, she directed an episode for ABC's light entertainment series Dancing Daze (1986), which led to her first TV film, Two Friends (1986), produced by Jan Chapman. Jane Campion at the 47th Venice International Film Festival in 1990Ĭampion's first short film, Peel (1982), won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival, and other awards followed for the shorts Passionless Moments (1983), A Girl's Own Story (1984), and After Hours (1984). In 1981, she began studying at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, where she made several more short films and graduated in 1984. Ĭampion's dissatisfaction with the limitations of painting led her to filmmaking and the creation of her first short, Tissues, in 1980. Campion's later film work was shaped in part by her art school education she has, even in her mature career, cited painter Frida Kahlo and sculptor Joseph Beuys as influences. She earned a graduate diploma in visual arts (painting) from the Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney in 1981. In 1976, she enrolled in the Chelsea Art School in London, and traveled throughout Europe. Campion initially rejected the idea of a career in the dramatic arts, and graduated instead with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Victoria University of Wellington in 1975. Their parents founded the New Zealand Players.

Along with her sister Anna, a year and a half her senior, and brother, Michael, seven years her junior, Campion grew up in the world of New Zealand theatre. Her father came from a family that belonged to the fundamentalist Christian Exclusive Brethren sect. Her maternal great-grandfather was Robert Hannah, a well-known shoe manufacturer for whom Antrim House was built. Campion, a teacher, and theatre and opera director. Campion was born in Wellington, New Zealand, the second daughter of Edith Campion (née Beverley Georgette Hannah), an actress, writer, and heiress and Richard M.

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