'Amour' wins Oscar for best foreign language film
Updated: 2013-02-25 11:46
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French actress Emmanuelle Riva, best actress nominee for her role in "Amour", arrives at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 24, 2013. [Photo/Agencies] |
Michael Haneke's brutal depiction of an aging couple, "Amour," has won the Academy Award for best foreign language film.
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It's the second time an Austrian film has won the best foreign language film award, following "The Counterfeiters" in 2008.
Though "Amour" was Austria's submission, it was a multinational production. The film's German-born director is Austrian, but it's in French and stars two French film legends, Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant.
They play a loving, elderly Parisian couple, one of whom has a stroke. "Amour" won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and received a total of five Oscar nominations, including best picture.
The other nominees Sunday night were Norway's "Kon-Tiki," Chile's "No," Denmark's "A Royal Affair" and Canada's "War Witch".
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