The actor worked very effectively with Jane Campion before in her highly acclaimed 1992 film The Piano.

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Englert comes from a movie background her mother is director Jane Campion.

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Holly Hunter, who won an Oscar for The Piano, is reuniting with its director Jane Campion for drama Top of the Lake.

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Their number includes four previous recipients of the festival's highest honour - Jane Campion, Britain's Ken Loach, Quentin Tarantino and Lars von Trier.

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Writer and director Jane Campion made that happen in "The Piano, " too, but on the big canvas of TV she is newly powerful.

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New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion is to be presented with the Carrosse d'Or from the Society of Film Directors at next month's Cannes Film Festival.

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Jane Campion says she was not sure if Keitel would be interested, because she believes a lot of American actors would have balked at the idea.

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New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion, who won the Palme d'Or for The Piano, is to be presented with the Carrosse d'Or from the Society of Film Directors.

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Bigelow was only the fourth woman to be shortlisted for a best director Oscar, (the others were Lina Wertmuller, for Seven Beauties in 1976, Jane Campion for The Piano in 1993 and Sofia Coppola for Lost In Translation in 2003).

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