The director Jane Campion has called the actor Sam Elliott “a little bit sexist” and “a bitch”, for criticising The Power of the Dog, her Oscar- and Bafta-nominated western, for its driving theme of repressed homosexual desire and for being filmed in New Zealand.
Campion’s film has 12 Oscar nominations, including best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay, best actor (Benedict Cumberbatch), best supporting actress (Kirsten Dunst) and two nominations for best supporting actor (Kodi Smit-McPhee and Jesse Plemons). Campion is the first woman to be nominated for best director twice.
