The Piano | |
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8 Nominations / 3 Wins | |
Year | 1993 |
Director | Jane Campion |
Writer | Jane Campion |
Starring | Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin |
66th Academy Awards |
The Piano is a 1993 period drama film written and directed by Jane Campion and starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin in her first acting role. Set in the mid-19th century, the film focuses on a psychologically mute Scottish woman who travels to a remote part of New Zealand with her young daughter after her arranged marriage to a frontiersman.
Wins
- Best Actress — Holly Hunter
- Best Supporting Actress — Anna Paquin
- Best Original Screenplay — Jane Campion
Nominations
- Best Actress — Holly Hunter
- Best Supporting Actress — Anna Paquin
- Best Original Screenplay — Jane Campion
- Best Picture — Jane Campion
- Best Director — Jane Campion
- Best Cinematography — Stuart Dryburgh
- Best Costume Design — Janet Patterson
- Best Film Editing — Veronika Jenet
Plot[]
In the mid-19th century, a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.