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Jane Campion was the first woman to win the Palme d'Or

The New Zealand director won it for The Piano in 1993

Jane Campion won the Palme d'Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival for The Piano, becoming the first woman to receive the festival's top prize. She shared it with Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine. The Piano also won three Academy Awards.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The New Zealand director won it for The Piano in 1993. The figure is taken from Festival de Cannes, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.