How much is Jane Campion worth?
| Net Worth: | $12 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional Screenwriter |
| Date of Birth: | April 30, 1954 |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Height: | Unknown |
About Jane Campion
Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion, a screenwriter, producer, and filmmaker from New Zealand, was born on April 30, 1954. Her estimated net worth is $12 million. Despite being a New Zealander by birth, Jane Campion is frequently thought of as an Australian director because she received her education in Sydney. AFTRS, Australia’s national film school, considers Campion to be its most accomplished alumna. She also started her illustrious filmmaking career there.
She has received two Palm D’Or prizes from the Cannes Film Festival during the past 16 years; the Palm D’Or is the most coveted honor in the film industry. Her following works now enjoy practically complete artistic freedom thanks to this success.
Only seven women have ever been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, and Jane Campion is the only female director to have won the Palme d’Or. For the movie The Piano, Campion also received an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (1993).
Peel, An Exercise in Discipline, which Jane directed, wrote, and edited, was released in 1982. In a situation straight out of a fantasy, she found remarkable success with her cheaply funded debut and became the first woman to ever win Cannes’ most coveted award. Such fervent reviews demonstrated to the film industry that Jane Campion was a prominent talent in Australia’s Post New Wave; a creative human capable of constructing intricate metaphors within her nuanced characters and the dynamics of their interactions.
Jane persisted in her passion for filmmaking, going on to direct three additional shorts: Passionless Moments (1983), After Hours (1984), and A Girl’s Own Story (1984), for which Alex Proyas also wrote the music. Each of these movies won prizes both domestically and overseas, which helped Jane develop in the independent feature film market. In actuality, short films by Jane Campion are still screened at film festivals all over the world.
A moderate commercial success in Australia and New Zealand, Sweetie (1989), which Jane co-wrote and directed, also brought Jane a number of honors, including the Australian Critics’ Awards for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actress. The intricate and darkly hilarious look at psychosis An Angel At My Table (1990) came next. At the Sydney Film Festival that year, Angel was chosen as the “most popular film” and it also won a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
The Piano, an intense visual masterpiece that would become Jane’s most commercially and critically acclaimed picture, came next (1993). Her second Palm D’Or-winning film was The Piano. It also garnered numerous Academy Award nominations, with the latter going to her; these included Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
Portrait of a Lady, a 1996 film starring Nicole Kidman and John Malkovich, was directed by Jane. Even though her movie got plaudits for its aesthetic, many critics did not like it, which was mirrored in its box office earnings.
She was both the writer and the director of Holy Smoke.
Then, in 2014, Campion was said to be finalizing a contract to helm a film adaptation of The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner.
Campion collaborated on the writing and co-directing of Top of the Lake’s second season, which saw the action shift to Sydney and Harbour City, Hong Kong. As Robin Griffin, Elisabeth Moss is back. A follow-up series named Top of the Lake: China Girl was published in 2017. It featured Alice Englert, Campion’s daughter, in the major role as Robin’s biological daughter. Nicole Kidman, David Dencik, and Ewen Leslie were all featured in the series.
The Power of the Dog, written by Thomas Savage, was then revealed as her first movie in ten years, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. The estimated value of Jane Campion’s net worth as of 2023 is $12 million.
