Saturday, March 3, 2012

OSCAR NO BIG DEAL FOR CAMPION.(SHOWTIME)

Byline: BOB STRAUSS - Los Angeles Daily News

Jane Campion could hardly care less.

"The awards, I don't take them very seriously," she said in a telephone interview from her home in Sydney, Australia, shortly before she was nominated for an Academy Award for direction of "The Piano."

"They're useful for promoting audience enthusiasm for the film, but I've always had my own opinions about which films are great, and they're not usually the ones Oscar picks. I really just try to enjoy these things, take them pretty lightly."

A healthy-sounding attitude. Especially from a writer-director whose three features ("Sweetie" and "An Angel at My …

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