A couple of years ago as part of my work on Women and Hollywood I hosted a party for the great Australian director Jane Campion. Campion is one of only four women nominated for a best director Oscar—in 1993 for her film "The Piano." (Only one, Kathryn Bi

"I'd like to thank the Academy for the honor of letting me be here today," Paquin said during her Oscar acceptance speech. "I'd like to thank Jane, Jan and Holly for making this all possible. I'd like thank Eddie Campbell, Pat Quirke, and Beanie for taki

The actress, who was born in Canada and raised in New Zealand, would go on to play Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO vampire series "True Blood" and the mutant Rogue in the "X-Men" films, starting in 2000. Throughout this Oscar season, we are looking back at

Love can be found in some of the strangest places. (And people!) So goes the journey of mute woman Holly Hunter in Jane Campion’s classic "The Piano" out on Blu-ray this week from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. So why say no go? Check out the musical acco

Like the double-wide premiere for HBO's Boardwalk Empire, the pilot for the network's new horse-racing series Luck—first broadcast December 11th, and then re-run this past Sunday—represents a meeting of two distinctive authorial voices. In the case of

Even as Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw smoldered in Jane Campion's "Bright Star," a breakout performance was happening in the margins. As the Brawnes' illiterate housemaid Abigail in the pic, Antonia Campbell-Hughes quietly stole most of her scenes -- her