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Amour was nominated for a Golden Globe for best foreign language film last week.
Iran's A Separation received the award for best foreign language film, while Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris won best screenplay.
The winner of last year's Palme d'Or was Michael Haneke's drama Amour, which won best foreign language film at the Oscars.
Best Foreign Language film nominees are: Amour (Austria), No (Chile), War Witch (Canada), A Royal Affair ( Denmark), and Kon-Tiki ( Norway).
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And since the category Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1957, only five foreign language films have received nods for Best Picture.
The word is also the title of a South African film that is among the five Oscar nominees for best foreign language film.
The winner of last year's Palme d'Or was Michael Haneke's drama Amour, which went on to win best foreign language film at the Oscars.
In other words, every foreign language film nominated for both Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film lost the first award but won the second.
Amour's nominations include one for film of the year, another for best foreign language film and dual awards for Michael Haneke in the director and screenwriter categories.
Not many titles nominated as best foreign language film ever break out into general categories, the rare examples have included Life is Beautiful (1998) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).
There's a clear favourite to win the Academy Award for best foreign language film this time - based on its spread of nominations alone, Amour is already an Oscar hit.
Last year's winner was Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan - whose film Once Upon a Time in Anatolia was selected as Turkey's official submission for the best foreign language film Oscar.
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Four of the eight previous foreign language Best Picture nominees were also nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, and all four of those won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
With the might of The Weinstein Company, which orchestrated The Artist's successful awards campaign, the film has been selected to represent France as a potential nominee for best foreign language film at next year's Academy Awards.
It has been picking up awards since winning the Golden Bear at its world premiere at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival and is one of the front-runners for best foreign language film at the upcoming Academy Awards.
And the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is considering whether to nominate Nairobi Half Life for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category -- the first time a Kenyan movie has been considered.
The film has been nominated for best foreign-language film at this year's Oscars.
Israel's controversial "Waltz With Bashir, " an animated film about a soldier's memories of the 1982 war in Lebanon, received a nomination for best foreign-language film.
"The Counterfeiters" from Austria took the best foreign-language film.
The French film about a literature teacher in inner-city Paris received glowing reviews and several other wins -- including an Independent Spirit Award for best foreign-language film -- though it came up short at the Oscars and at the Cesars (France's Oscar equivalent), taking home only a writing award at the latter.
Amour is only the 9th foreign language film ever nominated for Best Picture.
Austrian writer-director Michael Haneke's old-age love story "Amour" won for best international film, a possible prelude to the Oscars, where his film is the favorite to win the foreign-language prize and is nominated for best picture.
After Dersu Uzala was Kagemusha (Shadow Warrior), winner of the Cannes Palme d'Or in 1980, and Ran (Chaos, 1985), an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear which won him an Academy Award nomination for best director - a feat almost unheard of for a foreign-language film.
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