Jane Campion is sitting up in bed at her home in Sydney, about to go for her morning swim and reeling from the news that her film The Power of the Dog has received 12 Oscar nominations, two shy of the record 14 garnered by just three films in Academy history: All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land. “I didn’t have a very good sleep, but I’ve had a very good day,” she says cheerily. “At about 2am I could hear the beeps coming in on my phone, and then my partner came in and… Well, he took his time.
He was really spinning it out, cruelly. From the look on his face I thought, ‘Oh no, we didn’t get any.’”But when the numbers stacked up, it was different story. “I’ve got wet eyes,” she says. “I really feel emotional.
I guess the Oscars, or rather the Academy, is the gold standard in most of the world’s mind for what’s great in cinema, and I am so full of gratitude that they recognize so many people that were involved in our film.
That makes me so happy, because I love the work they did and I think they did a great job. But it’s also special to be amongst just all the nominees, because they’re all great cinema-makers.
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