In what appears to have been the climax of a feud that was dominating the 2022 awards season, Jane Campion and Sam Elliott have been found dead following a shootout just hours before the Academy Awards ceremony.
The two bodies were recovered on the red carpet of the Dolby Theater, with police reporting that they were positioned 50 yards apart, with one solitary gunshot wound each and vintage Colt Six-Shooter revolvers at their feet.
Both Campion and Elliott had been at loggerheads over the last week after Elliott described the director’s awards season darling The Power of the Dog as “looking like a dime’s worth of dog meat.” In response, while collecting the top prize on stage at the DGA Awards, Campion said that Elliott knew as much about filmmaking “as a hog does a hip pocket in a bathing suit,” adding that his “mustache smelled like a mildewed saddle blanket after it had been rid on a sore back hoss three hundred miles in August.”
At the Oscars ceremony, Campion could make history as the first filmmaker to win best film while also featuring in the in memoriam section.
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