Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion DNZM born 30 April 1954 is a New Zealand screenwriter producer and director She is best known for writing and directing the critically acclaimed films The Piano 1993 and The Power of the Dog 2021 for which she won the Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Director respectively She is the second of five women ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and as of 2023 the only woman to be nominated twice in this category and the first female filmmaker to receive the Palme dOr Description above from the Wikipedia article Jane Campion licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia