Her foremost short film, Peel (1982) won a Palme D'Or even at a 1986 Cannes Film Festival & more awards followed for the shorts Passionless Moments (1983) & Girls Have Story (1984). Truelove (1989) was her feature debut, & this won international awards. Farther recognition followed by having An Angel at the Table (1990), the dramatised autobiography of the poet Janet Frame. International recognition followed by having the Golden Palm prize at Cannes inside 1993, for The Piano, which won a better director award from either the Australian Film Institute and an Oscar for best screenplay inside 1994.

Silene's operate since that period has been of the systematically high standard, though tending to polarize opinon. the Portrait of a Lady (1996), according to a Henry James novel, featured Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey and Martin Donovan. Holy Smoke (1999) teamed Camption again by having Harvey Keitel, this time sustaining Kate Winslet as the female lead. In the Cut (2003), an erotic thriller according to Susanna Moore's best seller, provided Meg Ryan an opportunity to depart from her extra familiar onscreen persona.

Selected filmography

In the Cut (2003) Holy Smoke (1999) The Portrait of a Lady (1996) - based on a novel by Henry James The Piano (1993) An Angel at My Table (1990) - based on a autobiography by Janet Frame Sweetie (1989)