Jane Campion Receives Backlash Over Feedback to Venus, Serena Williams

Jane Campion‘s acceptance speech for Greatest Director on the 2022 Critics’ Choice Awards has evoked an opposed response on-line, with some customers calling her feedback “unnecessary.”
 
Throughout the March 13 awards ceremony, the 67-year-old filmmaker nabbed the award for her 2021 movie, The Energy of the Canine. And though the director started her speech by thanking her fellow nominees, Jane additionally turned her consideration to tennis stars Venus Williams and Serena Williams, whose lives had been the premise for the film, King Richard, one other nominated movie.
 
“Venus and Serena, you are such marvels,” Jane said. “Nonetheless, you do not play towards the fellows, like I’ve to.” Her feedback had been met with applause from the in-person viewers—however acquired a very completely different response from social media as soon as her speech circulated on-line.
 
“In a single fell swoop she managed to 1) diminish the racism and sexism Venus and Serena confronted from the start of their careers until now,” movie critic Carolyn Hinds tweeted, including that Jane dismissed “the blood, sweat and tears they’ve shed to EARN the awards and accolades they’ve acquired. And for what goal? To prop herself up?”