Jeremy Irons presenting Jane Campion with the Oscar® for Best Original Screenplay for "The Piano" at the 66th Academy Awards in 1994. Hosted by Whoopi Goldberg.
She should have won best director that year. The film was an exquisite work of art, and Campion has such a individualistic artistic voice, she is so underrated. But then again, any narrative that's alternate and unorthodox , becomes niche. She is one of the best filmmakers of our times, Top of the Lake only substantiates the fact that she is supremely talented.
She may have lost direction but still a great reward for Campion and the fact Hunter and Paquin could join her as winners that night was even better, a great achievement.
Watching it today, you're praying that the relentless music score will stop. It's worse than Dr. Zhivago in that regard, which suffers the same fate today.
THANK YOU OSCARS!! You uploaded this video just like I asked on "Holly Hunter winning an Oscar® for "The Piano". Now I can use it for my microdoc on Jane Campion at film school.
I agree. 'Groundhog Day' beat 'The Piano' in the Original Screenplay category at the 1994 BAFTAs, and at a number of other ceremonies, but surprisingly the film was not nominated for a single Oscar
If Jane wasn't up against Steven Spielberg for Best Director, I wish she would have won. In fact, if The Piano wasn't up against Schindler's List, I would have wanted it to win Best Picture, Best Cinematography and Editing. Wish Michael Nyman got nominated for his breathtaking, haunting and beautiful score for the film.
The piano would sink into the sand right? And after a voyage from one side of the world to another, it's highly unlikely it would be immediately playable. Right again. Charlton Heston was right about this one.
Of course, she wasn't the "only woman to win an Oscar." Unless you meant that another way. I hated The Piano. Anyone who thinks that absent Schindler's List it would have swept the awards is smoking the kind of dope I wish I could get my hands on.
i agree with the TheTerryE, she does this in every of her films and even the miniseries top of the lake( supposedly her comeback to fame). All her movies have stories that makes no sense when you actually think about it or is stupid. She's a great director but a bad screenwriter. Not every director are meant to be screenwriters.
Tell me ONE point "The Piano" doesn't makes sense. It's like a piece of poetry, subtly constructed over a brilliant second dimension. One of the best screenplays ever.
You're entitled to your opinion but as someone who has taught film in a major university for years I have never encountered a single person who liked the film. Campion also took one of the greatest books ever written -- James' Portrait of a Lady -- and turned it into a complete unwatchable mess that showed she was clueless what the book was even about. The world of film could do without Jane Campion.
