Jane Campion is one of the world's foremost filmmakers. Campion is best known for her 1993 Oscar®-winning film "The Piano", starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel and Anna Paquin which some critics hailed as a masterpiece. Campion made history that same year when she became the first female director ever to win the Palme D'or at Cannes. She has worked with some of the world's finest actors, including Nicole Kidman in "Portrait of a Lady", which also starred Barbara Hershey, John Malkovich, Sir John Gielgud, Shelley Winters, Viggo Mortenson, and Christian Bale. More recently, she directed "Holy Smoke" with Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel and "In the Cut" with Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Campion's first short, a nine-minute film "Peel", won the Palme D'or at Cannes in 1986. Although known primarily as a fiction filmmaker, she admits to being a great fan of documentary film. She is based in New Zealand and Australia.