Trivia

Became the second woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, with The Piano (1993). The first being Lina Wertmüller for Seven Beauties (1975). Campion would later become the first woman to be nominated for Best Director twice, with The Power of the Dog (2021).

Has directed seven actors in Oscar nominated performances: Holly Hunter, Anna Paquin, Barbara Hershey, Kirsten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Benedict Cumberbatch and Jesse Plemons. Hunter and Paquin won Oscars for their performances in The Piano (1993).

First woman to have been nominated twice in the Best Director category, and the third woman after Chloé Zhao and Kathryn Bigelow to actually win in that category.

Son, Jasper, born who died 12 days later. (1993)

Was part of the jury of the 2007 Venice Film Festival.

Was among the guests at Nicole Kidman's wedding to Keith Urban

One of three women to have won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, alongside Julia Ducournau for Titane (2021) and Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall (2023).

In Istanbul for 24th International Istanbul Film Festival as the president of Golden Tulip Jury and for the screening of The Piano (1993) in the honor of Jane Campion and Harvey Keitel collaboration. (April 2005)

She and Steven Spielberg have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director in the same year twice: once in 1994 when Campion was nominated for The Piano (1993) and Spielberg was nominated for Schindler's List (1993) and again in 2022 when Campion was nominated for The Power of the Dog (2021) and Spielberg was nominated for West Side Story (2021). Spielberg won in 1994 and Campion won in 2022.

Has a look-alike puppet in the French show Les Guignols de l'info (1988).

Daughter, Alice, born (1994)

Sister of Anna Campion

Became the second woman to direct two films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, with The Piano (1993) and The Power of the Dog (2021). Greta Gerwig was the first with Lady Bird (2017) and Little Women (2019). Gerwig later became the first woman to direct three Best Picture nominees with Barbie (2023).

Daughter of Edith Campion

She has directed two films that have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Piano (1993) and The Power of the Dog (2021).