The piano - wikipedia The piano This article is about the film. For the instrument, see Piano. For other uses, see Piano ( disambiguation ). The Piano US theatrical release poster Directed by Jane Campion Produced by Jan Chapman Written by Jane Campion Starring Holly Hunter Harvey Keitel Sam Neill Anna Paquin Kerry Walker Genevieve Lemon Music by Michael Nyman Cinematography Stuart Dryburgh Edited by Veronika Jenet Production company Jan Chapman Productions CiBy 2000 Distributed by Bac Films ( France ) Miramax Films ( US ) Entertainment Film Distributors ( UK ) Release date 15 May 1993 ( 1993 - 05 - 15 ) ( Cannes ) 19 May 1993 ( 1993 - 05 - 19 ) ( France ) 5 August 1993 ( 1993 - 08 - 05 ) ( Australia ) Running time 117 minutes Country New Zealand Australia France Language English Māori British Sign Language Budget US $7 million Box office US $140 million The Piano is a 1993 New Zealand drama film about a mute piano player and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier backwater town on the west coast of New Zealand. It revolves around the musician 's passion for playing the piano and her efforts to regain her piano after it is sold. It was written and directed by Jane Campion and stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin in her first acting role. The film 's score by Michael Nyman became a best - selling soundtrack album, and Hunter played her own piano pieces for the film. She also served as sign language teacher for Paquin, earning three screen credits. The film is an international co-production by Australian producer Jan Chapman with the French company Ciby 2000. The Piano was a success both critically and commercially, grossing US $140 million worldwide against its US $7 million budget. Hunter and Paquin both received high praise for their respective roles as Ada and Flora McGrath. In 1993, the film won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. It won three Academy Awards out of eight total nominations in March 1994 : Best Actress for Hunter, Best Supporting Actress for Paquin, and Best Original Screenplay for Campion. Paquin was 11 years old at the time and is the second youngest actor to win an Oscar in a competitive category ; Tatum O'Neal also won the Best Supporting Actress award in 1974 for Paper Moon at age 10. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 4 Reception 4.1 Accolades 5 Soundtrack 6 Home media 7 References 8 External links Plot A mute Scotswoman named Ada McGrath is sold by her father into marriage to a New Zealand frontiersman named Alisdair Stewart, bringing her young daughter Flora with her. Ada has not spoken a word since she was six and no one, including herself, knows why. She expresses herself through her piano playing and through sign language, for which her daughter has served as the interpreter. Flora, it is later learned, is the product of a relationship with a teacher with whom Ada believed she could communicate through her mind, but who `` became frightened and stopped listening '', and thus left her. Ada, Flora, and their belongings, including a hand crafted piano, are deposited on a New Zealand beach by a ship 's crew. The following day, the husband who has bought her, Alisdair, arrives with a Māori crew and his white friend, Baines, a fellow forester and retired sailor who has adopted many of the Maori customs, including tattooing his face. Alisdair tells Ada that there is no room in his small house for the piano and abandons the piano on the beach. Ada, in turn, is cold to him and is determined to be reunited with her piano. Unable to communicate with Alisdair, Ada and Flora visit Baines with a note asking to be taken to the piano. He explains that he can not read. Baines soon suggests that Alisdair trade the instrument to him for some land. Alisdair consents, and agrees to his further request to receive lessons from Ada, oblivious to his attraction to her. Ada is enraged when she learns that Alisdair has traded away her precious piano without consulting her. During one visit, Baines proposes that Ada can earn her piano back at a rate of one piano key per `` lesson '', provided that he can observe her and do `` things he likes '' while she plays. She agrees, but negotiates for a number of lessons equal to the number of black keys only. While Ada and her husband Alisdair have had no sexual, nor even mildly affectionate, interaction, the lessons with Baines become a slow seduction for her affection. Baines requests gradually increased intimacy in exchange for greater numbers of keys. Ada reluctantly accepts but does not give herself to him the way he desires. Realizing that she only does what she has to in order to regain the piano, and that she has no romantic feelings for him, Baines gives up and simply returns the piano to Ada, saying that their arrangement `` is making you a whore, and me wretched '', and that what he really wants is for her to actually care for him. Despite Ada having her piano back, she ultimately finds herself missing Baines watching her as she plays. She returns to him one afternoon, where they submit to their desire for one another. Alisdair, having become suspicious of their relationship, hears them having sex as he walks by Baines ' house, and then watches them through a crack in the wall. Outraged, he follows her the next day and confronts her in the forest, where he attempts to force himself on her, despite her intense resistance. He eventually exacts a promise from Ada that she will not see Baines. Soon afterwards, Ada sends her daughter with a package for Baines, containing a single piano key with an inscribed love declaration reading `` Dear George you have my heart Ada McGrath ''. Flora does not want to deliver the package and brings the piano key instead to Alisdair. After reading the love note burnt onto the piano key, Alisdair furiously returns home with an ax and cuts off Ada 's index finger to deprive her of the ability to play the piano. He then sends Flora who witnessed this to Baines with the severed finger wrapped in cloth, with the message that if Baines ever attempts to see Ada again, he will chop off more fingers. Later that night, while touching Ada in her sleep, Alisdair hears what he believes to be Ada 's voice inside of his head, asking him to let Baines take her away. Deeply shaken, he goes to Baines ' house and asks if she has ever spoken words to him. Baines assures him she has not. Ultimately, it is assumed that he decides to send Ada and Flora away with Baines and dissolve their marriage once she has recovered from her injuries. They depart from the same beach on which she first landed in New Zealand. While being rowed to the ship with her baggage and Ada 's piano tied onto a Māori longboat, Ada asks Baines to throw the piano overboard. As it sinks, she deliberately tangles her foot in the rope trailing after it. She is pulled overboard but, deep under water, changes her mind and kicks free and is pulled to safety. In an epilogue, Ada describes her new life with Baines and Flora in Nelson, where she has started to give piano lessons in their new home, and her severed finger has been replaced with a silver finger made by Baines. Ada has also started to take speech lessons in order to learn how to speak again. Cast Holly Hunter as Ada McGrath Harvey Keitel as George Baines Sam Neill as Alisdair Stewart Anna Paquin as Flora McGrath Kerry Walker as Aunt Morag Genevieve Lemon as Nessie Tungia Baker as Hira Ian Mune as Reverend Peter Dennett as Head seaman Cliff Curtis as Mana George Boyle as Ada 's father Rose McIver as Angel Production Casting the role of Ada was a difficult process. Sigourney Weaver was Campion 's first choice, but she turned down the role because she was taking a break from film at the time. Jennifer Jason Leigh was also considered, but she could not meet with Campion to read the script because she was committed to shooting the film Rush ( 1991 ). Isabelle Huppert met with Jane Campion and had vintage period - style photographs taken of her as Ada, and later said she regretted not fighting for the role as Hunter did. The casting for Flora occurred after Hunter had been selected for the part. They did a series of open auditions for girls age 9 to 13, focusing on girls who were small enough to be believable as Ada 's daughter ( as Holly Hunter is relatively short at 157 cm / 5 ' 2 '' tall ). Anna Paquin ended up winning the role of Flora over 5,000 other girls. Alistair Fox has argued that The Piano was significantly influenced by Jane Mander 's The Story of a New Zealand River. Robert Macklin, an associate editor with The Canberra Times newspaper, has also written about the similarities. The film also serves as a retelling of the fairytale `` Bluebeard '', which is hinted at further in the inclusion of `` Bluebeard '' as a piece of the Christmas pageant. In July 2013, Campion revealed that she originally intended for the main character to drown in the sea after going overboard after her piano. Production on the film started in April 1992, filming began on 11 May 1992 and lasted until July 1992, and production officially ended on 22 December 1992. Reception Reviews for the film were overwhelmingly positive. Roger Ebert wrote : `` The Piano is as peculiar and haunting as any film I 've seen '' and `` It is one of those rare movies that is not just about a story, or some characters, but about a whole universe of feeling ''. Hal Hinson of The Washington Post called it `` ( An ) evocative, powerful, extraordinarily beautiful film ''. In his 2013 Movie Guide, Leonard Maltin gave the film 3 1 / 2 stars out of 4, calling the film a `` Haunting, unpredictable tale of love and sex told from a woman 's point of view '' and went on to say `` Writer - director Campion has fashioned a highly original fable, showing the tragedy and triumph erotic passion can bring to one 's daily life ''. On the film site Rotten Tomatoes, The Piano earned a 90 % `` Certified Fresh '' rating. On Metacritic, it holds a score of 89 out of 100, indicating `` universal acclaim ''. Accolades At the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, the film shared the Palme d'Or, with Chen Kaige 's Farewell My Concubine, with Campion becoming the first woman to win the honour. Aside from being the first woman to win the highest Cannes honour, she was the first filmmaker from New Zealand to achieve this. Holly Hunter also received the Best Actress Award. In 1994, the film won three Academy Awards : Best Actress ( Holly Hunter ), Best Supporting Actress ( Anna Paquin ) and Best Original Screenplay ( Jane Campion ). Anna Paquin was the second youngest person ( after Tatum O'Neal ) to win an Academy Award. Award Recipient ( s ) Result Ref ( s ) AACTA Award ( 1993 Australian Film Institute Awards ) Best Film Jan Chapman Won Best Direction Jane Campion Won Best Original Screenplay Won Best Actor Harvey Keitel Won Best Actress Holly Hunter Won Best Supporting Actor Sam Neill Nominated Best Supporting Actress Kerry Walker Nominated Best Cinematography Stuart Dryburgh Won Best Editing Veronika Jenet Won Best Original Music Score Michael Nyman Won Best Sound Lee Smith, Tony Johnson, Gethin Creagh, Peter Townsend, Annabelle Sheehan Won Best Production Design Andrew McAlpine Won Best Costume Design Janet Patterson Won Academy Awards Best Picture Jan Chapman Nominated Best Director Jane Campion Nominated Best Original Screenplay Won Best Actress Holly Hunter Won Best Supporting Actress Anna Paquin Won Best Cinematography Stuart Dryburgh Nominated Best Costume Design Janet Patterson Nominated Best Film Editing Veronika Jenet Nominated ACE Eddie Award Best Edited Feature Film -- Dramatic Nominated ASC Award Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases Stuart Dryburgh Nominated BAFTA Awards Best Film Jan Chapman Nominated Best Direction Jane Campion Nominated Best Original Screenplay Nominated Best Actress Holly Hunter Won Best Cinematography Stuart Dryburgh Nominated Best Sound Lee Smith, Tony Johnson, Gethin Creagh, Peter Townsend, Annabelle Sheehan Nominated Best Music Michael Nyman Nominated Best Production Design Andrew McAlpine Won Best Costume Design Janet Patterson Won Best Editing Veronika Jenet Nominated Boston Society of Film Critics Best Actress Holly Hunter Won Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or Jan Chapman Won Best Actress Holly Hunter Won César Award Best Foreign Film Jane Campion Won Chicago Film Critics Association Best Foreign Film Jan Chapman Won Best Score Michael Nyman Won Best Actress Holly Hunter Won Dallas -- Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards Best Actress Won Directors Guild of America Award Outstanding Directing -- Feature Film Jane Campion Nominated Golden Globe Awards Best Motion Picture -- Drama Jan Chapman Nominated Best Director Jane Campion Nominated Best Screenplay Nominated Best Actress in a Motion Picture -- Drama Holly Hunter Won Best Supporting Actress -- Motion Picture Anna Paquin Nominated Best Original Score Michael Nyman Nominated Guldbagge Award Best Foreign Film Jan Chapman Won Independent Spirit Award Best Foreign Film Jane Campion Won London Film Critics ' Circle Film of the Year Jan Chapman Won Best Actress Holly Hunter Won Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Director Jane Campion Won Best Screenplay Won Best Actress Holly Hunter Won Best Supporting Actress Anna Paquin Won Best Cinematography Stuart Dryburgh Won National Board of Review Best Actress Holly Hunter Won National Society of Film Critics Best Actress Won Best Screenplay Jane Campion Won New York Film Critics Circle Best Director Won Best Screenplay Won Best Actress Holly Hunter Won Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards Best Picture Jan Chapman Won Best Director Jane Campion Won Best Actress Holly Hunter Won Writers Guild of America Award Best Original Screenplay Jane Campion Won Soundtrack For more details, see The Piano ( soundtrack ). `` The Piano '' Extract from the score of the 1993 film `` The Piano '' Problems playing this file ? See media help. The score for the film was written by Michael Nyman, and included the acclaimed piece `` The Heart Asks Pleasure First '' ; additional pieces were `` Big My Secret '', `` The Mood That Passes Through You '', `` Silver Fingered Fling '', `` Deep Sleep Playing '' and `` The Attraction of the Peddling Ankle ''. This album is rated in the top 100 soundtrack albums of all time and Nyman 's work is regarded as a key voice in the film, which has a mute lead character ( Entertainment Weekly, 12 October 2001, p. 44 ). Home media The film was released on DVD in 1997 by LIVE Entertainment and on Blu - ray on 31 January 2012 by Lionsgate, but already released in 2010 in Australia. References Jump up ^ Box Office Information for The Piano. The Wrap. Retrieved 4 April 2013 Jump up ^ Margolis, H. ( 2000 ). Jane Campion 's The Piano. Cambridge University Press. p. 135. ISBN 9780521597210. Retrieved 13 July 2016. Jump up ^ `` A Pinewood Dialogue With Jennifer Jason Leigh '' ( PDF ). 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Question: who directed the oscar winning film 'the piano' in 1993
Answer: Jane Campion