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Jane Campion
Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion (born 30 April 1954) is a New Zealand filmmaker. She is best known for writing and directing the critically acclaimed films ''The Piano'' (1993) and ''The Power of the Dog (film), The Power of the Dog'' (2021), for which she has received two Academy Awards (including Academy Award for Best Director, Best Director for the latter), two BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Campion was appointed a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (DNZM) in the 2016 New Year Honours (New Zealand), 2016 New Year Honours, for services to film. Campion is a groundbreaking female director, the only woman to be nominated twice for Academy Award for Best Director (winning once), and the first female filmmaker to receive the Palme d'Or (for ''The Piano'', which also won her the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay). She made history at the 94th Academy Awards when she won Academy Award for Best Director, Best Director for ''The Power of the Dog'' (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dame
''Dame'' is a traditionally British honorific title given to women who have been admitted to certain orders of chivalry. It is the female equivalent of ''Sir'', the title used by knights. Baronet, Baronetesses Suo jure, in their own right also use the title ''Dame''. A woman appointed to the grades of Dame Commander or Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Saint John (Bailiwick of Brandenburg), Order of Saint John, the Order of the Holy Sepulchre (Catholic), Order of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of the Bath, the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, the Royal Victorian Order, or the Order of the British Empire becomes a dame. A Central European order in which female members receive the rank of Dame is the Order of St. George (Habsburg-Lorraine), Order of Saint George. Since there is no female equivalent to a Knight Bachelor, women are always appointed to an Order (distinction), order of chivalry. Women who are appointed to the Order of the Garter or the Order of the Thistle are gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Lion
The Silver Lion (, also known as Silver Lion for Best Direction) is an annual award presented for best directing achievements in a feature film in the official competition section of the Venice Film Festival since 1998. The prize has been awarded irregularly and has gone through several changes of purpose. Between 1953 and 1994, the award was given infrequently to a number of films as second prize for those nominated for the Golden Lion. At various times, the Silver Lion has also been awarded for Silver Lion#Defunct Categories, debut films, short films, direction, and writing. Since 47th Venice International Film Festival, 1990, the Silver Lion has been presented to the director of a feature film in the official competition; Martin Scorsese was the first official winner of the award for ''Goodfellas'', while Brady Corbet is the most recent winner for The Brutalist, ''The Brutalist'' in 81st Venice International Film Festival, 2024. Silver Lion for Best Direction (1990–pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wellington Girls' College
Wellington Girls' College was founded in 1883 in Wellington, New Zealand. At that time it was called Wellington Girls' High School. Wellington Girls' College is a year 9 to 13 state secondary school, located in Thorndon in central Wellington. History Seeing a need for higher education for girls the founding fathers of Wellington College leased a building in Abel Smith Street in 1882 and appointed Miss Martha Hamilton as the Lady Principal of the school. It opened on 2 February 1883 with 40 students. However, by the end of its first year the roll increased to almost 100 girls, and when the Premier, the Rt. Hon. Robert Stout visited the school in 1884 the building was overcrowded with 130 students. As a result of his visit the school was moved to its current site in Pipitea Street. Before the school the Colonial Hospital, Wellington's first public hospital, was built on the site in 1847. It was destroyed by an earthquake in 1848 and a new building large enough to meet the nee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Margaret College, Wellington
Queen Margaret College is an independent girls’ school in Wellington, New Zealand, providing education for students from Year 1 to 13 with a co-educational Pre-School. It was established in 1919 as an inner-city, Presbyterian girls’ college. History The site of the college was originally a private residence for Thomas Coldham Williams. The residence was an Italianate building, which was designed by Charles Tringham. Williams died in 1912 and in 1915, the Presbyterian Church took the lease of the property and founded Scots College. In 1919 the college moved to a larger site in Strathmore and Queen Margaret College was established on the site. This original building is known as Queen Margaret College Tower and is registered as a category 2 building with Heritage New Zealand. The School's namesake is Queen Margaret, who was married to King Malcolm. He features in ''Macbeth'', being one of Duncan's sons, who flees after his father was murdered. Students are organised i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exclusive Brethren
The Exclusive Brethren are a subset of the Christian evangelical movement generally described as the Plymouth Brethren. They are distinguished from the Open Brethren from whom they separated in 1848. The Exclusive Brethren are now spread into a number of locations, most of which differ on minor points of doctrine or practice. One organization that originated from the Exclusive Brethen, made famous through media attention, is the Raven-Taylor-Hales group, now known as the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, which maintains the doctrine of uncompromising separation from the world based on their interpretation of 2 Corinthians 6 and 2 Timothy 2, believing that attendance at the Communion Service, the 'Lord's Supper', governs and strictly limits their relationship with others, even other Brethren groups. The Brethren groups have one fellowship in some 19 countries – including France, Brazil, Germany, Spain, Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Argentina, Jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antrim House
Antrim House is a historic Italianate house located in Wellington, New Zealand registered as a category 1 building by Heritage New Zealand. Antrim House was built as the home for Robert Hannah and his family. Description Antrim House is a two-storey, 18-room Italianate building largely constructed from tōtara. The building has a central tower which had an ornate iron crown. It initially overlooked the Wellington Harbour but today it is surrounded by high-rise buildings. The interior has pressed metal ceilings; hand-crafted kauri panels and staircase; and leadlight and stained glass windows. History Background Robert Hannah trained as an apprentice to a cobbler. He later opened a shoe store in Lambton Quay in 1874. Due to the import duty his business grew well and in 1893 he had ten stores and a factory. Antrim House Antrim House was built on Boulcott Street in 1905 for Robert Hannah and his family. Hannah had commissioned Thomas Turnbull and Sons and William Turnbull des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannahs
Hannahs is a New Zealand footwear retail company. Hannahs operates at 70 locations around New Zealand: 34 under its main Hannahs brand, 16 under its low-price Number One Shoes brand, and 20 as combined Number One Shoes and Hannahs stores. History 19th century Irish cobbler Robert Hannah emigrated from Ireland to New Zealand, via Australia, in 1866. He traveled to Charleston, New Zealand for work, where he was forced to add an "H" to his surname after losing a coin toss with another man with the same surname. Hannah established his first store, R. Hannah & Co., in Charleston, New Zealand on 29 January 1868. It produced high-quality shoes for gold miners during the end of the West Coast gold rush. Business quickly declined as gold started to run out. Miners left the area and property owners abandoned their land. Hannah originally planned to relocate to the United States but chose to move to Wellington instead. Hannah established a new shop on Lambton Quay in 1870. He establi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primetime Emmy Award
The Primetime Emmy Awards, or Primetime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Owned and operated by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), the Primetime Emmys are presented in recognition of excellence in American prime time, primetime Television in the United States, television programming. The award categories are divided into three classes: the regular Primetime Emmy Awards, the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards to honor technical and other similar behind-the-scenes achievements, and the Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards for recognizing significant contributions to the engineering and technological aspects of television. First presented in 1st Primetime Emmy Awards, 1949, the award was originally referred to as simply the "Emmy Award" until the International Emmy Award and the Daytime Emmy Award were created in the early 1970s to expand the Emmy to o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top Of The Lake
''Top of the Lake'' is a mystery drama television series created and written by Jane Campion and Gerard Lee, and directed by Campion and Garth Davis. It was broadcast in 2013, and the sequel, entitled ''Top of the Lake: China Girl'', in 2017. It is Campion's first work for television since '' An Angel at My Table'' in 1990. Series 1 follows Detective Robin Griffin ( Elisabeth Moss) and deals with her investigation of the disappearance of a pregnant 12-year-old girl in New Zealand. Series 2, ''China Girl'', is set in Sydney five years later, as Detective Griffin investigates the death of an unidentified Asian girl found at Bondi Beach. ''Top of the Lake'' was co-produced for BBC Two in the UK, BBC UKTV in Australia and New Zealand, and Sundance Channel in the United States. It has been generally very well received. Cast Elisabeth Moss plays the central role of Robin Griffin, a Sydney detective specializing in sexual assault, in both series. Additional cast members are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bright Star (film)
''Bright Star'' is a 2009 biographical romantic drama film, written and directed by Jane Campion. It is based on the last three years of the life of poet John Keats (played by Ben Whishaw) and his romantic relationship with Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish). Campion's screenplay was inspired by a 1997 biography of Keats by Andrew Motion, who served as a script consultant. ''Bright Star'' was in the main competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, and was first shown to the public on 15 May 2009. The film's title is a reference to a sonnet by Keats titled " Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art", which he wrote while he was with Brawne. Plot In 1818 Hampstead, the fashionable Fanny Brawne is introduced to poet John Keats through the Dilke family. The Dilkes occupy one half of a double house, with Charles Brown occupying the other half. Brown is Keats' friend, housemate, and associate in writing. Fanny's flirtatious personality contrasts with Keats' notably more aloof n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Smoke!
''Holy Smoke!'' is a 1999 independent romantic comedy drama film directed by Jane Campion, and starring Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel. The plot follows an American exit counselor (Keitel) who attempts to deprogram a young Australian woman (Winslet) who has been indoctrinated into a new age cult in India. Julie Hamilton, Tim Robertson, Daniel Wyllie, and Pam Grier appear in supporting roles. Director Jane Campion wrote the screenplay for the film with her sister, Anna Campion. The film was a co-production between Australia and the United States. The film premiered at the 56th Venice International Film Festival and was shown at the New York Film Festival and the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival before being released theatrically. Plot During a trip to India, Ruth Barron has a spiritual awakening and embraces the teachings of a guru named Baba. Back home in the Sydney suburb of Sans Souci, her parents are appalled to learn their daughter now answers to the name Nazni and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
