Emmanuelle Riva Net Worth
Emmanuelle Riva Net Worth is
$1.7 Million
Emmanuelle Riva Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Emmanuelle Riva (French pronunciation: ?[eman??l ?iva], born Paulette Germaine Riva; 24 February 1927) is a French actress, best known for her roles in the films Hiroshima mon amour (1959), and Amour (2012). In 2013, Riva won the BAFTA Award and the César Award for her role in Michael Haneke's Amour as Anne Laurent, and was nominated for an Academy Award for the same role. She is the oldest actress ever to have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She had previously been nominated for a BAFTA Award in 1960 for her role in Hiroshima mon amour and won Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival in 1962 for Thérèse Desqueyroux. Date Of Birth | February 24, 1927 |
Place Of Birth | Cheniménil, Vosges, France |
Height | 5' 5½" (1.66 m) |
Profession | Actress |
Nationality | French |
Star Sign | Pisces |
# | Trademark |
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1 | Excellent diction |
2 | Heroines whose inner process is followed thoroughly during a movie, often through their own voice-over |
3 | Heartbreaking performances |
4 | Often appears in alternative, anti-mainstream movies |
5 | Often played mothers and grandmothers in the second half of her career |
6 | Naturalistic acting style |
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1 | [on the death of Alain Resnais] I was really stunned. I'd grown to believe that he would live forever. |
2 | [on re-watching her Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) performance in 2014] It's as though I were watching somebody else. We each have many lives. And Hiroshima is in another life for me. |
3 | [on being directed by Alain Resnais in Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)] [He] would come up close, talk with each of us intimately, and quietly tell us what he hoped to achieve in the scene. |
4 | [on working with Eiji Okada in Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)] He learned all his lines phonetically... His work was just amazing and he has a magnificent presence in the film. |
5 | [on Marguerite Duras] Marguerite has her own rhythm. There's a precise, childlike quality in her writing that you can't ignore. You can't escape it, but it's actually a pleasure. Not long ago, I was listening to some old interviews and I heard Alain Robbe-Grillet talking about Hiroshima. He said that Marguerite Duras had sent out cassettes of the text. I must have listened to them -and there was nothing left for me to do but mimic her. And he laughed and laughed. Well, I never heard these cassettes. It's totally untrue. And I'm very glad to have the chance to tell you this! I didn't have to imitate. That doesn't interest me at all. I like to create. |
6 | [on her character in Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)] I was very pleased with the role because it will always be modern. Her freedom exists naturally within her. |
7 | [on the shooting of Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)] I can still feel the happiness of those days, it hasn't left me. It was so extraordinary to live that adventure. |
8 | [on working with Michael Haneke on the set of Amour (2012)] I understood right away. No sentimentality. So that becomes really very interesting to perform. Because there is a restraint, a distance that is a pleasure to experience. |
9 | [on being Oscar-nominated for Amour (2012)] I am truly happy, touched, and honored to receive, today in New York, a nomination for the role of Anne in Amour by Michael Haneke. For me, it is an immense gift, at this stage of my life, to be chosen by my sisters and brothers, for what I do as an actress. I never thought, while working throughout the years in Europe and France, that one day, i would cross the Atlantic Ocean, come to the United States, and be nominated. It is quite surreal for me. Shooting Amour with Michael Haneke was a complete joy for me, as I felt an absolute trust in him and we were in complete synch. Michael is the very music of his own film. |
10 | If I hadn't succeeded, I'd have died. I didn't have another second to lose. I had dozens of marriage proposals, I refused them all. Why would I tie myself down with a husband and children? It's very difficult to make a couple succeed. Are you married? Do you have children? |
11 | I refused as many offers as I accepted. I refused commercial roles. But it was wrong, I have been too extreme, and I don't say it was good. |
12 | I wanted to live another life and many lives at once. Acting makes you live plenty of lives. |
13 | I've never wanted to be a star, never. I tried to do things that pleased me, and I needed to do various things. It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly. |
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1 | She won the 2014 Prix Beaumarchais for her stage performance in "Savannah Bay". |
2 | For her performance in Amour (2012), she's one of only four French actresses to have won the NSFC (National Society of Film Critics) Award for Best Actress (in 2013) . The other three are: Sylvie in La vieille dame indigne (1965) (in 1967), Isabelle Adjani in The Story of Adele H (1975) (in 1975) and Marion Cotillard in Deux jours, une nuit (2014) and The Immigrant (2013) (in 2015). |
3 | Her poems were released in three collections: 'Juste derrière le sifflet des trains' (1969), 'Le Feu des miroirs' (1975) and 'L'Otage du désir' (1982). |
4 | Autobiography 'C'est délit-cieux! : Entrer dans la confidence' was published on the 30 October 2014. |
5 | She was awarded the 2015 Prix Henri-Langlois for her body of work [30 March 2015]. |
6 | Her first acting experience was in a school production of Antigone on her father's wishes (he otherwise never approved of her acting dreams). |
7 | When she visited New York for the first time in her life in January 2012, she asked Sony executives if someone could bring her to see the Statue of Liberty. |
8 | Michael Haneke stated that, had she still been alive, he would have likely cast his frequent collaborator Annie Girardot as the female lead in Amour (2012), but he also added that- thinking retrospectively about the whole thing- it's unlikely that she would have been as believable as Emmanuelle as the screen wife of Jean-Louis Trintignant. |
9 | She doesn't own a TV set, a computer nor a cellphone. |
10 | She's been credited as either Emmanuelle or Emmanuèle Riva through most of her film career. Within the years, she signed autographs using both names as well. |
11 | When she was Oscar-nominated for her portrayal of Anne in Michael Haneke's Amour (2012), one of her fellow nominees was Naomi Watts for The Impossible (2012). Watts had previously played Ann in Haneke's Funny Games (2007) (the director uses variations of the same name for all his female protagonists). |
12 | Back in the 60's, she mentioned Charlotte Corday, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Mrs.Dalloway as dream roles she would have liked to play. |
13 | One of her professional regrets is not to have been offered enough comedy roles in her career, largely because of her strict association with the tragic heroine of Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959). |
14 | She loves ballet and classical music. |
15 | Her friends nicknamed her 'Hiroshima' after her star-making movie, Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959). |
16 | She starred in 3 movies that were nominated for the Best Picture César: Three Colors: Blue (1993), Vénus beauté (institut) (1999) and Amour (2012). The last two won. |
17 | She was one of Georges Franju's three muses, the other two being Edith Scob and Francine Bergé. |
18 | Before the start of the shooting of Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), she would wait for Marguerite Duras to pass on to her Alain Resnais's instructions about how to play her role. The first message Resnais sent her was that she had to shave her legs for the part. |
19 | When initially approached to direct Mademoiselle (1966), Georges Franju introduced her to screenwriter Jean Genet as his ideal pick for the title role. Genet was very enthusiastic about the idea and when Franju mentioned fellow candidate Romy Schneider, the writer stated: 'You've shown me a jewel, I won't swop it against a false pearl, and German at that'. This collaboration never saw the day and Franju later remarked that he would have made the movie straight away had he agreed to Romy's casting, but he had also been partial to Emmanuelle. The film was eventually directed by Tony Richardson and starred Jeanne Moreau. |
20 | She's one of only three French actresses to win the Best Actress BAFTA since the integration of Best British Actress and Best Foreign Actress to one category: the other two are Stéphane Audran for Just Before Nightfall (1971) and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) (in 1974) and Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose (2007) (in 2008). |
21 | Both Emmanuelle and Anouk Aimée received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for playing opposite Jean-Louis Trintignant: coincidentally, both actresses were playing a character named Anne. |
22 | After the success of Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), she was offered many roles in the English language, but, since she didn't speak it, she couldn't perform them. |
23 | She was originally slated to star in the U.S. premiere of Didier Bezace's stage production of 'Savannah Bay' at the Kennedy Center, but eventually backed out of the project due to medical recommendations that prevent her from traveling overseas. Geneviève Mnich replaced her. |
24 | She was awarded the "Victoire du Cinéma Français" for her performance in Therese (1962). |
25 | She won the "Prix du Cinéma Français" for her film work. |
26 | She won the Best Actress Award at Acapulco Film Festival for her performance in Therese (1962). |
27 | She and Marion Cotillard are the only actors to win both a BAFTA and a César award for the same performance. Cotillard won both awards in 2008 for La Vie en Rose (2007) and Riva won in 2013 for Amour (2012). |
28 | She was one of the two French actresses who starred in French-language films to be nominated for a BAFTA award for Best Leading Actress in 2013 with her performance in Amour (2012), the other was Marion Cotillard for her performance in Rust and Bone (2012). It was the first time in the history of BAFTA that two French-language performances were nominated for the Best Actress category. |
29 | Mother Jeanne Fernande Nourdin (b.1908) was a seamstress. Father René Alfred (Alfredo) Riva (b.1906) was a sign painter. |
30 | She lives in the Latin Quarter of Paris. |
31 | She unanimously won the "Prix du syndicat de la critique" for Best Actress in 1966 (1965/1966 season) for her stage performance in "L'Opéra du monde". |
32 | Both Emmanuelle and Delphine Seyrig played an unnamed heroine nicknamed 'Elle' in a movie penned by Marguerite Duras: Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) and La musica (1967) respectively. |
33 | She's a skilled photographer. When she was in Japan to shoot Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), she bought a Ricohflex and began to take photos of people. All the material she took was eventually published in a book called "Tu n'as rien vu à Hiroshima". |
34 | She used to practice archery. She took an interest in the sport by watching a Japanese sensei when she was in Hiroshima to shoot Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959). She later bought a bow and arrows to take lessons in Paris. |
35 | She keeps in shape through dancing and walking over six miles a day. During the shooting of Amour (2012), she used to turn on her radio at the end of her daily work and do some Andalusian dances. |
36 | In 2012 she became the eleventh recipient of the Prix Marguerite Duras for her body of work. |
37 | She slept in her dressing room during the whole shooting of Amour (2012). |
38 | Jean-Pierre Melville stated that he wouldn't have done Léon Morin, Priest (1961) had Emmanuelle or Jean-Paul Belmondo declined their roles. |
39 | She enjoys to do film and stage work in equal measure. |
40 | Georges Franju wanted Emmanuelle to play the role of Lady Beltham in his long-craved version of Fantomas, but he eventually died before the project could see the light of the day. Emmanuelle stated that not playing that part is one of her big regrets. |
41 | Both her BAFTA nominations were for movies which had the word Amour in the title : Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) and Amour (2012). |
42 | Is one of 12 French actresses to have received an Academy Award nomination. The others in chronological order are: Claudette Colbert, Colette Marchand, Leslie Caron, Simone Signoret, Anouk Aimée, Isabelle Adjani, Marie-Christine Barrault, Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Marion Cotillard and Bérénice Bejo. |
43 | She was very good friends with singer and actor Jacques Brel. The two appeared in a movie together, Les risques du métier (1967). |
44 | For her performance in Amour (2012), she became the oldest Oscar nominee for Best Actress at age 85. Coincidentally, her fellow nominee Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest one ever at 9 for her performance in Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012). |
45 | Both Emmanuelle and her Amour (2012) co-star, Jean-Louis Trintignant, were part of Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors Trilogy. She appeared in Three Colors: Blue (1993) while he played the leading male role in Three Colors: Red (1994). |
46 | Hobbies include traveling, cooking, biking and collecting exotic items. |
47 | Favourite movies include L'Avventura (1960), Wild Strawberries (1957), Jules and Jim (1962), La Notte (1961), Electra (1962), Over There, 1914-18 (1963). |
48 | Her paternal grandfather was Italian, and her other grandparents were French. Her grandfather, Alfred (Alfredo) Riva (b.1877), was born in Monvalle, Lombardy, on the side of Lake Maggiore. Her other grandparents came from Vosges families (Nourdin, Hacquard, Hollard). |
49 | She's also a poet. |
Actress
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Alma | 2017 | post-production | |
LE Vacances | 2016 | pre-production | |
Les Vacances | pre-production | ||
Paris pieds nus | 2016 | Martha | |
Marie et les naufragés | 2016 | Suzanne | |
Tu honoreras ta mère et ta mère | 2012 | Granny | |
Amour | 2012 | Anne | |
Le Skylab | 2011 | Mme Prévost dite Mémé - la mère d'Anna | |
Je ne dis pas non | 2009 | Mme Revison | |
Un homme et son chien | 2008 | Femme église | |
Le grand alibi | 2008 | Geneviève Herbin | |
Mon fils à moi | 2006 | La grand mère | |
Venus and Apollo | 2005 | TV Series | Mme Galinet |
Je suis votre homme | 2004 | Emma | |
Vert paradis | 2003 | La mère de Lucas | |
C'est la vie | 2001 | Dominique | |
Médée | 2001 | TV Movie | Le choeur |
Vénus beauté (institut) | 1999 | Tante Lyda | |
XXL | 1997 | Sonia Stern | |
Capitaine au long cours | 1997 | Clémentine / Calypso | |
L'homme aux semelles de vent | 1995 | TV Movie | La mère de Rimbaud |
Dieu, l'amant de ma mère et le fils du charcutier | 1995 | ||
A che punto è la notte | 1994 | TV Movie | Professoressa Chaldiny |
Éclats de famille | 1994 | TV Movie | Marguerite |
L'ombre du doute | 1993 | Grandmother | |
Three Colors: Blue | 1993 | La mère | |
Langer Samstag | 1992 | Frau Dünskoven | |
Loin du Brésil | 1992 | Juliette | |
For Sasha | 1991 | Mrs. Malka | |
Grand beau | 1990 | TV Movie | La Piou |
La passion de Bernadette | 1989 | Mère Marie-Thérèse Vauzou | |
Les dossiers de l'écran | 1989 | TV Series | Jeanne d'Albert |
Chinoise à deux voix ou Hommage à Carpeaux | 1988 | Short | |
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober | 1988 | La mère | |
Funny Boy | 1987 | Micky's mother | |
Résister ou les captives d'Aigues-Mortes | 1985 | TV Movie | |
Un delitto | 1984 | TV Movie | |
Liberté, la nuit | 1984 | Mouche, the wife | |
Un homme à ma taille | 1983 | Lisa Leibovitch | |
L'exile | 1983 | TV Movie | Geneviève De Presles |
Die Erbtöchter | 1982 | ||
The Eyes, the Mouth | 1982 | Mother | |
Ralentir école | 1982 | TV Movie | L'institutrice |
Y a-t-il un Français dans la salle? | 1982 | Adélaïde Tumelat | |
Le piano des songes | 1982 | TV Movie | La mère de Claire |
Le roman du samedi: Un prêtre marié | 1981 | TV Movie | Malgaigne |
The Games of Countess Dolingen | 1981 | Une invitée | |
Le règlement intérieur | 1980 | La prof de journalisme | |
Le petit théâtre d'Antenne 2 | 1980 | TV Series | |
Les jeunes filles | 1979 | TV Movie | Andrée Hacquebaut |
Madame Ex | 1977 | TV Movie | Aline |
Au théâtre ce soir | 1976 | TV Series | Natalia |
The Devil in the Heart | 1976 | Madame Bouvier, la mère | |
Léopold le bien-aimé | 1975 | TV Movie | Marie-Thérèse |
La mort de l'utopie | 1975 | ||
La dame de l'aube | 1975 | TV Movie | La pèlerine |
Au long de rivière Fango | 1975 | Mathilde | |
La mort du pantin | 1975 | TV Movie | Marianne Morel |
Ariane | 1974 | Pasiphae | |
I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse | 1973 | La mère (Madame Rey) | |
Le cygne | 1972 | TV Movie | Dame Gritie |
Les portes de feu | 1972 | La baronne | |
L'homme de désir | 1971 | Valentine | |
La modification | 1970 | Henriette | |
Safari 5000 | 1969 | ||
Je voudrais parler à monsieur Moratti | 1969 | TV Movie | Josette |
La forêt noire | 1968 | TV Movie | Maria Richter |
Les risques du métier | 1967 | Suzanne Doucet | |
Fruits amers - Soledad | 1967 | Soledad | |
Voilà l'ordre | 1966 | Short | |
La fin de la nuit | 1966 | TV Movie | Thérèse Desqueyroux |
L'or et le plomb | 1966 | La femme du monde | |
Le coup de grâce | 1965 | Sophie | |
Thomas l'imposteur | 1965 | La princesse de Bormes | |
Io uccido, tu uccidi | 1965 | Lucia Rossi Perozzi (segment "La donna che viveva sola") | |
Le gros coup | 1964 | Clémence Grandval | |
Caterina | 1963 | TV Movie | Caterina |
The Hours of Love | 1963 | Maretta | |
Therese | 1962 | Thérèse Desqueyroux (as Emmanuele Riva) | |
Climats | 1962 | Isabelle | |
Léon Morin, Priest | 1961 | Barny (as Emmanuele Riva) | |
Kapò | 1960 | Terese | |
Adua e le compagne | 1960 | Marilina (as Emmanuele Riva) | |
Recours en grâce | 1960 | Germaine Tourier | |
Le huitième jour | 1960 | Françoise | |
Hiroshima Mon Amour | 1959 | Elle (as Emmanuele Riva) | |
La Confession | 1959 | TV Movie | Sylvia |
The Possessors | 1958 | La secrétaire (uncredited) | |
Énigmes de l'histoire | 1957 | TV Series | Sophie Charlotte |
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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C à vous | 2014 | TV Series | Herself |
Michael H. Profession: Director | 2013 | Documentary | Herself |
The 85th Annual Academy Awards | 2013 | TV Special | Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Leading Role |
La nuit des Césars | 2013 | TV Series documentary | Herself - César de la meilleure actrice |
Cinema 3 | 2012-2013 | TV Series | Herself |
The 2012 European Film Awards | 2012 | TV Special | Herself - Award Recipient |
Kulturzeit | 2012 | TV Series | Herself |
Un siècle d'écrivains | 1998 | TV Series documentary | Récitante / Narrator |
Un comédien lit un auteur | 1979 | TV Series | Herself |
Chili: Les arpilleras de la colère | 1978 | Documentary short | Récitante / Narrator (voice) |
Samedi soir | 1971 | TV Series | Herself |
Disorder Is 20 Years Old | 1967 | Documentary | Herself |
Cinépanorama | 1959-1964 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
Archive Footage
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Die Öscars | 2016 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Herself |
Won Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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2014 | Critics Award | SESC Film Festival, Brazil | Best Foreign Actress (Melhor Atriz Estrangeira) | Amour (2012) |
2013 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Leading Actress | Amour (2012) |
2013 | Cinema Bloggers Award | Cinema Bloggers Awards, Portugal | Best Actress - International Competition | Amour (2012) |
2013 | CCOP | Críticos de Cinema Online Portugueses Awards | Best Actress (Melhor Atriz) | Amour (2012) |
2013 | César | César Awards, France | Best Actress (Meilleure actrice) | Amour (2012) |
2013 | ICS Award | International Cinephile Society Awards | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |
2013 | INOCA | International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |
2013 | IOMA | Italian Online Movie Awards (IOMA) | Best Actress (Miglior attrice protagonista) | Amour (2012) |
2013 | ALFS Award | London Critics Circle Film Awards | Actress of the Year | Amour (2012) |
2013 | Lumiere Award | Lumiere Awards, France | Best Actress (Meilleure comédienne) | Amour (2012) |
2013 | NSFC Award | National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |
2012 | BSFC Award | Boston Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |
2012 | DFCC | Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |
2012 | European Film Award | European Film Awards | European Actress | Amour (2012) |
2012 | Joseph Plateau Honorary Award | Ghent International Film Festival | ||
2012 | LAFCA Award | Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |
2012 | NYFCO Award | New York Film Critics, Online | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |
2012 | SFFCC Award | San Francisco Film Critics Circle | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |
1964 | Silver Goddess | Mexican Cinema Journalists | Best Foreign Actress (Mejor Actriz Extranjera) | Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962) |
1962 | Volpi Cup | Venice Film Festival | Best Actress | Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962) |
Nominated Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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2013 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role | Amour (2012) |
2013 | Movies for Grownups Award | AARP Movies for Grownups Awards | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |
2013 | EDA Award | Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |
2013 | EDA Female Focus Award | Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Actress Defying Age and Ageism | Amour (2012) |
2013 | AACTA International Award | Australian Film Institute | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |
2013 | Critics Choice Award | Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |
2013 | CinEuphoria | CinEuphoria Awards | Best Actress - International Competition | Amour (2012) |
2013 | CinEuphoria | CinEuphoria Awards | Best Duo - International Competition | Amour (2012) |
2013 | Dorian Award | Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association (GALECA) | Film Performance of the Year - Actress | Amour (2012) |
2013 | GFCA Award | Georgia Film Critics Association (GFCA) | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |
2013 | Globe de Cristal | Globes de Cristal Awards, France | Best Actress (Meilleure actrice) | Amour (2012) |
2013 | Gold Derby Award | Gold Derby Awards | Lead Actress | Amour (2012) |
2013 | IFC Award | Iowa Film Critics Awards | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |
2013 | IFTA Award | Irish Film and Television Awards | Best International Actress | Amour (2012) |
2013 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |
2013 | OFCS Award | Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |
2013 | TFCA Award | Toronto Film Critics Association Awards | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |
2012 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Amour (2012) |
2012 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |
2012 | DFWFCA Award | Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |
2012 | HFCS Award | Houston Film Critics Society Awards | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |
2012 | ICP Award | Indiewire Critics' Poll | Best Lead Performance | Amour (2012) |
2012 | Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Actress in a Motion Picture | Amour (2012) |
2012 | WAFCA Award | Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |
1961 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Foreign Actress | Hiroshima mon amour (1959) |
2nd Place Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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2012 | VVFP Award | Village Voice Film Poll | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |
3rd Place Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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2012 | NYFCC Award | New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Actress | Amour (2012) |