By nearly every measure, it was a good weekend for filmmaker Jane Campion and her Oscar-nominated movie, “The Power of the Dog.”
Campion took the Directors Guild prize Saturday night and got off a jab at actor Sam Elliott on the red carpet before the ceremony. “I’m sorry, he was being a little bit of a B-I-T-C-H,” Campion, 67, said, responding to Elliott’s criticism of her western (“What the f— does this woman from (New Zealand) know about the American West?”) on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast two weeks ago.
Campion continued her dismissal of Elliott: “He’s not a cowboy; he’s an actor.”
