Jane Campion wins best director Oscar for The Power of the Dog

Campion wins her second Oscar, becoming the third female winner of the best director award• Follow all the action with our liveblog• The full list of winnersJane Campion has won the Oscar for best director at the 94th Academy Awards, currently under way at the Dolby theatre in Los Angeles.

Campion becomes the third woman to win the award, after Chloé Zhao in 2021 and Kathryn Bigelow in 2010.Campion won the award for the western The Power of the Dog, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Kirsten Dunst; it is adapted from the 1967 novel by Thomas Savage about two brothers whose relationship deteriorates when one of them gets married.

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