Jane Campion is now the first woman with two Best Director Oscar nominations

Following the 2022 Academy Awards nominations Jane Campion has entered the Oscars history books as the first woman filmmaker to boast of two career nominations in the Best Director categoryCampion has been nominated for directing her acclaimed work on the Netflixbacked The Power of the Dog which also won her the directing prize at last years Venice Film Festival and a nomination at the Directors Guild of America AwardsAccording to Variety her first Oscar nomination for directing came in 1994 when she was nominated for The Piano at the 66th Academy Awards She won the Oscar for an original screenplay that yearApart from directing The Power of the Dog picked up several Oscar nominations this year in categories such as best picture actor for Benedict Cumberbatch supporting actress for Kristen Dunst supporting actor for Kodi SmittMcPhee and Jesse Plemons adapted screenplay editing score and cinematographyAri Wegner the films director of photography is now just the second woman nominated at the Oscars in the cinematography categoryCampion is nominated in the 2022 Oscars directing category opposite Steven Spielberg for West Side Story Kenneth Branagh for Belfast Paul Thomas Anderson for Licorice Pizza and Ryusuke Hamaguchi for Drive My CarTo date only seven women have been Oscarnominated for best director Lina Wertmuller for Seven Beauties Campion for The Piano and The Power of the Dog Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird Chloe Zhao for Nomadland and Emerald Fennell for Promising Young WomanOut of the lot only Bigelow and Zhao are the only two winners The year both Zhao and Fennell earned nominations marked the first time in Oscars history that two female filmmakers competed for best director as per VarietyThe Power of the Dog is Campions adaptation of the 1967 Thomas Savage novel of the same name In the film Cumberbatch plays a sadistic rancher who meddles with his brothers new wife Dunst and her sensitive son McPheeThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever