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By Christopher Goodwin:

The only female director to receive a top prize at Cannes, Campion’s classic ‘The Piano’ is a truly breathtaking film
There’s a striking photograph taken at the Cannes film festival in 2007. It shows 35 of the world’s leading directors, almost all in black suits and bow ties, standing on a podium. In their midst, if you look closely, you can see just one woman: Jane Campion, her greying blonde hair a sobering contrast, a white horse on a dark male sea. Campion, now 55, was among cinema’s auteur elite because her 1993 film, The Piano, was the first directed by a woman ever to win the coveted Palme d’Or (although it shared the prize with the Chinese film Farewell My Concubine, directed by Chen Kaige). Holly Hunter, playing Ada, the film’s mute heroine, who finds expression and identity through the piano she plays, took the best actress award.

Nine months later, Campion received a best director Oscar nomination for the film, becoming only the second woman ever put up for cinema’s ultimate prize. She didn’t win. In fact, no woman has ever won the best director Oscar — although Campion’s latest, Bright Star, a tender study of the doomed but enduring love between the poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, is in the frame for nominations this year. It was at least some consolation that The Piano, which received eight nominations in all, including best picture, won three Oscars: best actress for Hunter, best supporting actress for Anna Paquin (who was just 11 when she appeared in the film) and best screenplay for Campion. The film was an international box-office hit, taking more than $100m worldwide.

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