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Amour (2012 film)

{{short description|2012 film by Michael Haneke}}

{{Use British English|date=January 2013}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Amour

| image = Amour-poster-french.jpg

| alt = An elderly man cups his hands onto the ears of his wife in a loving manner, as she stares at him with loving eyes within a blank expression.

| caption = French release poster

| director = Michael Haneke

| producer = {{ubl|Margaret Ménégoz|Stefan Arndt|Veit Heiduschka|Michael Katz}}

| writer = Michael Haneke

| starring = {{ubl|Jean-Louis Trintignant|Emmanuelle Riva|Isabelle Huppert}}

| cinematography = Darius Khondji

| editing = {{ubl|Monika Willi|Nadine Muse}}

| studio = {{plainlist|

}}

| distributor = {{plainlist|

  • Les Films du Losange {{small|(France)}}
  • X-Verleih {{small|(Germany)}}
  • Filmladen {{small|(Austria)}}

}}

| released = {{Film date|2012|05|20|Cannes|2012|09|20|Germany|2012|10|24|France|df=y}}

| runtime = 128 minutes{{Cite web|url=http://zff.com/en/programme/movies/1772/amour/ |title=Amour - Zurich Film Festival|access-date=30 December 2012|work=Zurich Film Festival}}{{cite web|title=Amour - Love (12)|url= https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/amour-love-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc00mzq1nzu |work=British Board of Film Classification|date=14 September 2012|access-date=23 January 2013}}

| country = {{ubl|France|Austria|Germany}}

| language = French

| budget = $8.9 million

| gross = $36.8 million{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Amour |title=Amour at The Numbers |access-date=24 June 2023|work=The Numbers}}

}}

Amour ({{IPA|fr|a.muʁ|pron}}; French: "Love") is a 2012 drama film written and directed by Michael Haneke, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert. The narrative focuses on an elderly couple, Anne and Georges, who are retired music teachers with a daughter who lives abroad. Anne has a stroke that paralyses the right side of her body. The film is an international co-production among the French, German, and Austrian companies Les Films du Losange, X Filme Creative Pool, and Wega Film.

Amour premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival,{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/article/58878.html |title=2012 Official Selection |access-date=19 April 2012 |work=Cannes}}{{cite web |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/feature/2547/cannes-film-festival-2012-line-up-announced |title=Cannes Film Festival 2012 line-up announced |access-date=19 April 2012 |work=timeout |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423162352/http://www.timeout.com/london/feature/2547/cannes-film-festival-2012-line-up-announced |archive-date=23 April 2012 |url-status=dead }} where it won the Palme d'Or, making Haneke the second filmmaker to win twice consecutively.{{Cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/2012/awardCompetition.html |title=Awards 2012 |access-date=27 May 2012 |work=Cannes}} The film garnered critical acclaim for its direction, screenplay, and the performances of Trintignant and Riva. It has been widely regarded by critics as one of the greatest films of the 21st century. Amour won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, in addition of four nominations (including Best Picture and Best Director) at the 85th Academy Awards, among numerous accolades.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20973004 |title=Oscars 2013: Full list of winners |access-date=25 February 2013 |work=BBC News |date=25 February 2013}}

Plot

After residents of a Paris apartment building complain of a smell coming from one of the apartments, the emergency services break down its door to find an elderly woman's corpse in the bedroom, adorned with cut flowers.

Several months before the opening scene, Anne and her husband Georges, both retired piano teachers in their eighties, attend a performance by one of Anne's former pupils, Alexandre. They return home to find that someone has unsuccessfully tried to break into their apartment. The next morning, while they are eating breakfast, Anne silently has a stroke. She sits in a catatonic state, not responding to Georges. She comes around as Georges is about to get help, but has no idea the stroke occurred. Georges is unable to persuade her to get medical attention until Anne finds she is unable to pour herself a drink.

Anne undergoes surgery on a blocked carotid artery, but the surgery goes wrong, leaving her paralyzed on her right side and reliant on a wheelchair. She makes Georges promise not to send her back to the hospital or to a nursing home. Georges becomes Anne's dutiful, though slightly irritated, caretaker. One day, Anne, seemingly having attempted to commit suicide by falling from a window, tells Georges she doesn't want to go on living.

Alexandre, her former pupil whose performance they attended, stops by and Anne gets dressed up and carries on a lively conversation during the visit, giving Georges hope that her condition was temporary. But she soon has a second stroke that leaves her demented and incapable of coherent speech. Georges continues to look after Anne.

Georges begins employing a nurse three days a week. Their daughter, Eva, wants her mother to go into care, but Georges says he will not break the promise he made to Anne. He employs a second nurse, but fires her after he discovers she is mistreating Anne.

One day, Georges sits next to Anne's bedside and tells her a story of his childhood, which calms her. As Anne closes her eyes, he quietly picks up a pillow and smothers her to death.

Georges returns home with bundles of flowers in his hands, which he proceeds to wash and cut. He picks out a dress from Anne's wardrobe and writes a long letter. He tapes the bedroom door shut and catches a pigeon that has flown in through the window. In the letter, Georges explains that he has released the pigeon. Georges imagines that Anne is washing dishes in the kitchen and, speechless, he gazes at her as she cleans up and prepares to leave the house. Anne calls for Georges to bring a coat, and he complies, following her out of the door.

The film concludes with a continuation of the opening scene, with Eva seated in the living room after wandering around the now-empty home.

Cast

Background characters appeared in the film: Rita Blanco as a concierge and Ramón Agirre as a concierge's husband; Carole Franck and Dinara Droukarova as nurses; Laurent Capelluto and Jean-Michel Monroc as police officers; Suzanne Schmidt as one of the couple's neighbors; and Walid Afkir and Damien Jouillerot as paramedics.

Production

The film was produced for €7,290,000 through France's Les Films du Losange, Germany's X Filme Creative Pool and Austria's Wega Film.{{Cite web |last=Lemercier |first=Fabien |date=22 November 2010 |url=http://cineuropa.org/newsdetail.aspx?documentID=154401|title=Ile-de-France backs Haneke's Amour|work=Cineuropa|access-date=3 June 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.filmsdulosange.fr/inter/uk_amour.html |title=Love (Amour) |work=filmsdulosange.fr |publisher=Les Films du Losange |access-date=3 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110512050140/http://www.filmsdulosange.fr/inter/uk_amour.html |archive-date=12 May 2011 |url-status=dead }} It received co-production support from France 3 and €404,000 in support from the Île-de-France region. Further funding was granted by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg in Germany and National Center of Cinematography and the moving image in France.{{cite web|url=http://screenbase.screendaily.com/films/1460|title=Amour|work=Screenbase|publisher=Screen International|access-date=3 June 2011|archive-date=18 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518102856/http://screenbase.screendaily.com/films/1460|url-status=dead}} Principal photography took place from 7 February to 1 April 2011.

After 14 years, Jean-Louis Trintignant came back on screen for Haneke.[http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2012/05/20/cannes-2012-amour-jean-louis-trintignant_n_1531078.html Cannes 2012, "Amour": le retour à la lumière de Jean-Louis Trintignant], Huffington Post in cooperation with Le Monde, 20 May 2012. Haneke had sent Trintignant the script, which had been written specifically for him.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/movies/michael-haneke-directs-amour-with-jean-louis-trintignant.html |title=Michael Haneke Directs Amour, With Jean-Louis Trintignant |access-date=30 December 2012 |work=New York Times |first=Larry |last=Rohter |date=2 November 2012}} Trintignant said that he chooses which films he works in on the basis of the director, and said of Haneke that "he has the most complete mastery of the cinematic discipline, from technical aspects like sound and photography to the way he handles actors".

The film is based on a situation that happened in Haneke's family.{{Cite web |url=http://www.cornerhouse.org/film/film-news/article-the-curzon-interview-michael-haneke |title=Article The Curzon Interview: Michael Haneke |access-date=30 December 2012 |work=Curzon Cinema |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121128113938/http://www.cornerhouse.org/film/film-news/article-the-curzon-interview-michael-haneke |archive-date=28 November 2012 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news|url=http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/12/michael_haneke.php|title=Michael Haneke on Amour: "When I Watched it with the Audience, They Gasped!"|last=Foundas|first=Scott|date=20 December 2012|newspaper=The Village Voice|access-date=12 January 2013}} The issue that interested him the most was how to manage the suffering of someone you love.

Haneke called the collaboration with Jean-Louis Trintignant and the subject of the film the motivation to make the film. The starting point for Haneke's reflections was the suicide of his 90-year-old aunt, who had raised him. According to Haneke, she had heavy rheumatism and lived her last years alone in her apartment because she did not want to be placed in a nursing home. She had even asked Haneke for euthanasia. According to Haneke, the main theme of his script is not old age and death, but "the question of how to deal with the suffering of a loved one".Liebe: Vorabdruck aus dem Buch 'Haneke über Haneke' – Gespräche mit Michel Cieutat und Philippe Rouyer. Berlin/Köln : Alexander Verlag, September 2012. 31 S. (Kindle Edition, 133 KiB)

Haneke dealt with the matter since 1992.[Abeltshauser, Thomas: "Ich laufe nicht mit der Palme auf dem Kopf herum" in welt.de, (from September 2012)] The work on the script was interrupted by a writer's block. Haneke normally wrote out the script exactly before the writing process. This time the end of the story was not clear to him. He began writing in the hope that this would occur to him at work, but this did not happen.[Huber, Christoph: Michael Haneke: "Bei mir ist der Schauspieler schon König!", diepresse.com, August 2012] "I have tormented myself terribly with the script and I was left with the impression that I have not succeeded in getting the hang of this topic", he said. At the same time the director realized that the Swiss-Canadian Léa Pool with La dernière fugue (2010) had created a similar story, about an old man who is taken care of by his wife. Therefore, he left the project in favor of another. He worked only sporadically on it, until his writer's block loosened and he could finish the script quickly. Haneke wrote it specifically for Trintignant, having already written the scripts for The Piano Teacher (2001) and Caché (2005) specifically for Isabelle Huppert and Daniel Auteuil. Haneke prefers this way of working, because in this way one "writes specifically something that fits to the advantages of each actor and helps to particularly work them out".["Ich habe keine Phantasie!", artechock.de, 31 May 2012]

Release

Artificial Eye acquired the distribution rights for the United Kingdom and by Sony Pictures Classics in the United States. It has been released on DVD, Blu-ray, and Digital mediums.{{Cite news|last=Kemp|first=Stuart|date=13 May 2011|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/uks-artificial-eye-boards-michael-188228|title=U.K.'s Artificial Eye Boards Michael Haneke, Laurent Cantet Projects (Cannes)|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=3 June 2011}}

{{Anchor|Reception}}

Reception

Amour met with widespread acclaim from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 93% based on 223 reviews, with an average rating of 8.7/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "With towering performances and an unflinching script from Michael Haneke, Amour represents an honest, heartwrenching depiction of deep love and responsibility."{{cite web |url= https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/amour_2013 |title=Amour (2012) | work= Rotten Tomatoes | publisher = Fandango Media |access-date=11 October 2020}} Metacritic gives the film a weighted average rating of 95 out of 100, based on reviews from 44 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".{{cite web |url= https://www.metacritic.com/movie/amour/critic-reviews|title=Amour Reviews | work = Metacritic | publisher = CBS Interactive |access-date=27 November 2012}}

Writing for The Guardian after the Cannes screening, Peter Bradshaw said "this is film-making at the highest pitch of intelligence and insight", naming it the best film of 2012.{{cite news|last=Bradshaw |first=Peter |title=Cannes 2012: Amour – review |url= https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/may/20/amour-haneke-film-review |work=The Guardian|access-date=21 November 2012|date=20 May 2012 |location=London}} Jamie Graham of Total Film gave Amour 5 stars out of 5, stating "far from being a cold, scientific study from a filmmaker frequently accused of placing a pane of glass between his work and his viewers, this sensitive film emerges heartfelt and humane."{{cite web|last=Graham|first=Jamie|title=Amour review|url=http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/amour|publisher= Future Publishing | work= Total Film|access-date=19 November 2012|date=26 October 2012}} Dave Calhoun of Time Out London also gave the film 5 out of 5 stars, stating "Amour is devastatingly original and unflinching in the way it examines the effect of love on death, and vice versa".{{cite web|last=Calhoun |first=Dave |title=Amour review|date=13 November 2012 |url= https://www.timeout.com/film/reviews/91577/amour.html |publisher=Time Out |access-date=21 November 2012}} Calling Amour the best film of 2012, critic A. O. Scott of The New York Times said that "months after its debut at Cannes this film already feels permanent."{{cite news|last=Scott|first=A. O.|title=25 Favorites From A Year When 10 Aren't Enough|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/movies/a-o-scotts-25-best-films-of-2012.html|work=The New York Times|access-date=14 December 2012|date=14 December 2012}} Writing in The Times, critic Manohla Dargis hailed the film as "a masterpiece about life, death and everything in between."{{cite news|last=Dargis|first=Manohla|title=Étude on Aging, Its Graces, Its Indignities|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/2012/12/19/movies/michael-hanekes-amour-with-jean-louis-trintignant.html|work=The New York Times|access-date=18 December 2012|date=18 December 2012}} The newspaper flagged the film as a critics' pick. The Wall Street Journal{{'s}} film critic Joe Morgenstern wrote of Amour: "Mr. Haneke's film, exquisitely photographed by Darius Khondji, has won all sorts of prizes all over the world, and no wonder; the performances alone set it off as a welcoming masterpiece."{{cite news|last=Morgenstern|first=Joe|title=Luminous, Loving 'Amour'|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324461604578191313755066222|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=20 December 2012 |date=20 December 2012}} The Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four stars out of four.{{cite web|title=Amour|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/amour-2013|website=Roger Ebert|date=9 January 2013}} In 2024, Looper ranked it eighth on its list of the "50 Best PG-13 Movies of All Time", writing that the film "shatters your heart while reminding one of the kind of love that makes it possible to not lose all hope in the middle of life's miseries. This is one film that's as certain to impress on an emotional level as a technical one."{{cite web | url=https://www.looper.com/806086/best-pg-13-movies-of-all-time-ranked/ | title=50 Best PG-13 Movies Of All Time Ranked | website=Looper | date=October 14, 2024 }}

Among the few negative reviews, Calum Marsh of the Slant Magazine gave the film 2 out of 4 stars and indicated that the film "isn't the work of a newly moral or humanistic filmmaker, but another ruse by the same unscrupulous showman whose funny games have been beguiling us for years", adding that "Haneke's gaze, trained from an unbridgeable remove, carries no inflection of empathy; his style is too frigid, his investment too remote, for the world of these characters to open up before us, for their pain to ever feel like something more than functional."{{cite magazine|url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/amour/6577|title=Amour|last=Marsh|first=Calum|date=2 October 2012|magazine=Slant Magazine|access-date=11 January 2013}}

=Box office=

The film earned $6,739,492 in the U.S.{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=amour.htm|title=Amour (2012) - Box Office Mojo}} It grossed $36,784,044 worldwide{{cite web|url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Amour|title=Amour (2012) - Financial Information|access-date=24 June 2023}} on an $8.9 million budget.

=Accolades=

{{Anchor|Awards}}

Amour received five nominations: Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role (Riva), Best Original Screenplay (Haneke) and Best Director (Haneke).{{cite news |date=10 January 2013 |title=Oscars: Hollywood announces 85th Academy Award nominations |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20959604 |access-date=10 January 2013 |work=BBC News}} At 85, Riva is the oldest nominee for Best Actress in a Leading Role.{{cite news |title=Youngest v oldest actress vie for Oscar as Lincoln leads the pack |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/youngest-v-oldest-actress-vie-for-oscar-as-lincoln-leads-the-pack-sw9wnnmfn5n |access-date=10 January 2013 |work=The Times}}{{cite news |last=Walker |first=Tim |date=10 January 2013 |title=Quvenzhané Wallis v Emmanuelle Riva: Best actress Oscar contested by oldest and youngest ever nominees |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/quvenzhan-wallis-v-emmanuelle-riva--best-actress-oscar-contested-by-oldest-and-youngest-ever-nominees-8446248.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113053637/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/quvenzhan-wallis-v-emmanuelle-riva--best-actress-oscar-contested-by-oldest-and-youngest-ever-nominees-8446248.html |archive-date=2013-01-13 |access-date=10 January 2013 |work=The Independent |location=London}} It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

At the 25th European Film Awards, Amour was nominated in six categories,{{cite news |date=5 November 2012 |title=Amour leads European Film Award nominations |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20203642 |access-date=4 November 2012 |work=BBC News}} winning in four, including Best Film and Best Director. At the 47th National Society of Film Critics Awards it won Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress.{{cite news |date=7 January 2013 |title=US critics reward Cannes favourite Amour |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20930807 |access-date=7 January 2013 |work=BBC News}} At the 66th British Academy Film Awards, it was nominated in four categories, winning for Best Leading Actress and Best Film Not in the English Language.{{cite news |title=Bafta awards 2013: Full list of nominees |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20955363 |access-date=8 January 2013 |work=BBC News}} Riva became the oldest person to win a BAFTA.{{cite news |last=Brown |first=Mark |date=10 February 2013 |title=Baftas: stars dress for show not snow as awards hail director Ben Affleck |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/feb/10/baftas-stars-ben-affleck |access-date=11 February 2013 |work=The Guardian |location=London}}{{cite news |date=11 February 2013 |title='Argo', Affleck take top prizes at BAFTAs |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/10/showbiz/bafta-awards/index.html |access-date=11 February 2013 |work=CNN}} At the 38th César Awards, it was nominated in ten categories,{{cite news |date=25 January 2013 |title=Amour among contenders for 2013 Cesar Awards |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21198923 |access-date=26 January 2013 |work=BBC News}} winning in five, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress.{{cite web |title=Michael Haneke film 'Amour' sweeps major César awards in Oscars warm-up |url=http://www.euronews.com/2013/02/23/michael-haneke-film-amour-sweeps-major-cesar-awards-in-oscars-warm-up/ |access-date=23 February 2013 |work=euronews}}{{cite web |date=22 February 2013 |title='Amour' sweeps France's César awards |url=http://www.france24.com/en/20130223-amour-wins-top-prize-frances-c%C3%A9sar-awards |access-date=23 February 2013 |work=France24}}

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! colspan=4 style="background:#B0C4DE;" | List of Accolades

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! style="background:#ccc;" width="40%"| Award / Film Festival

! style="background:#ccc;" width="30%"| Category

! style="background:#ccc;" width="25%"| Recipient(s)

! style="background:#ccc;" width="15%"| Result

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rowspan="5"|85th Academy Awards{{cite web |title=Hanke's Amour geht fuer Oesterreich ins Oscar Rennen |url=http://derstandard.at/1345166084103/Hanekes-Amour-geht-fuer-Oesterreich-ins-Oscar-Rennen |access-date=4 September 2012 |work=Der Standard}}

| Best Picture

| Margaret Ménégoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz

|{{nom}}

Best Director

|Michael Haneke

|{{nom}}

Best Actress

|Emmanuelle Riva

|{{nom}}

Best Original Screenplay

|Michael Haneke

|{{nom}}

Best Foreign Language Film

|Austria

| {{Won}}

2nd AACTA International Awards{{cite web|title=2nd AACTA International Awards Nominees|url=http://www.aacta.org/the-awards/aacta-international-awards.aspx|access-date=9 January 2013|publisher=Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA)|date=9 January 2013}}

| Best International Actress

| Emmanuelle Riva

|{{Nominated}}

rowspan="5"|7th Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award{{cite web |url=http://awfj.org/eda-awards/2012-awfj-eda-award-nominees/ |title=2012 EDA Award Nominees |publisher=Alliance of Women Film Journalists |access-date=28 December 2012}}

|Top 10 Films

|rowspan="2"|Amour

| {{won}}

Best Non-English-Language Film

| {{won}}

Best Actress

| Emmanuelle Riva

| {{nom}}

Best Original Screenplay

|Michael Haneke

| {{nom}}

Actress Defying Age and Ageism

|Emmanuelle Riva

| {{nom}}

rowspan="1"|34th Bavarian Film Awards{{cite web |url=http://cineuropa.org/nw.aspx?t=newsdetail&l=en&did=231730 |title=Winners of the Bavarian Film Awards |date=22 January 2013 |publisher=Cineuropa.org |access-date=10 February 2013}}

|Best Director

|Michael Haneke

| {{won}}

rowspan="1"|66th Bodil Awards{{cite web |url=http://www.bodilprisen.dk/ |title=Bodil-prisen 2013 |publisher= Bodilprisen.dk |access-date=10 February 2013}}

|Best Non-American Film

|rowspan="2"|Amour

| {{won}}

rowspan="2"|33rd Boston Society of Film Critics Award{{cite web |url=http://www.bostonfilmcritics.org/current-winners |title=2012 Winners |publisher=Boston Society of Film Critics |access-date=10 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213104846/http://www.bostonfilmcritics.org/current-winners |archive-date=13 December 2017 |url-status=dead }}

|Best Foreign Film

| {{Won}}

Best Actress

|rowspan="2"|Emmanuelle Riva

| {{Won}}

rowspan="4"|66th British Academy Film Awards{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20955363|title=Bafta Film Awards 2013: The winners |work=BBC News |access-date=11 February 2013 |date=10 February 2013}}

| Best Leading Actress

| {{won}}

Best Director

|rowspan="2"|Michael Haneke

| {{nom}}

Best Original Screenplay

| {{nom}}

Best Film Not in the English Language

|rowspan="3"|Amour

| {{won}}

rowspan="1"|2012 British Film Institute{{cite web |url=http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2012/12/01/sight-sounds-best-of-2012/ |title=The Master tops Sight & Sound's Best of 2012 |author=BFI |work=British Film Institute |date=December 2012 |publisher= AwardsDaily.com |access-date=2 December 2012}}

| Top 10 Films

| {{Won}}

rowspan="1"|15th British Independent Film Awards{{cite web|url=http://www.bifa.org.uk/releases/nominations-host-and-jury-revealed-for-the-15th-annual-moet-british-independent-film-awards |title=British Independent Film Awards |access-date=7 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511214940/http://www.bifa.org.uk/releases/nominations-host-and-jury-revealed-for-the-15th-annual-moet-british-independent-film-awards |archive-date=11 May 2013 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.indiewire.com/article/imposter-among-early-winners-at-british-independent-film-awards-in-progress|title=Imposter Among Early Winners at British Independent Film Awards|date=9 December 2012 |access-date=10 December 2012}}

|Best International Independent Film

|{{nom}}

rowspan="1"|65th Cannes Film Festival

| Palme d'Or

| Michael Haneke

| {{Won}}

rowspan="10"|38th César Awards{{cite web|url=http://www.academie-cinema.org/data/document/liste-officielle-nominations-2013.pdf|title=38th César Award Nominations|date=26 January 2013|publisher=academie-cinema|access-date=26 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203202347/http://www.academie-cinema.org/data/document/liste-officielle-nominations-2013.pdf|archive-date=3 February 2014|url-status=dead}}

| Best Film

| Amour

| {{Won}}

Best Director

| Michael Haneke

| {{Won}}

Best Actor

| Jean-Louis Trintignant

| {{Won}}

Best Actress

| Emmanuelle Riva

| {{Won}}

Best Supporting Actress

| Isabelle Huppert

| {{nom}}

Best Original Screenplay

| Michael Haneke

| {{Won}}

Best Production Design

| Jean-Vincent Puzos

| {{nom}}

Best Cinematography

| Darius Khondji

| {{nom}}

Best Editing

| Monika Willi

| {{nom}}

Best Sound

| Guillaume Sciama, Nadine Muse, Jean-Pierre Laforce

| {{nom}}

rowspan="2"|23rd Chicago Film Critics Awards{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/News/90-qthe-masterq-leads-cfca-awards-with-10-nominations |title="The Master" rules 2012 CFCA Awards with 10 Nominations |date=14 December 2012 |publisher=CFCA |access-date=14 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729121720/http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/News/90-qthe-masterq-leads-cfca-awards-with-10-nominations |archive-date=29 July 2013 }}

|Best Actress

|Emmanuelle Riva

|{{nom}}

Best Foreign-Language Film

|Amour

|{{won}}

rowspan="2"|18th Critics' Choice Awards{{cite web |url=http://www.criticschoice.com/movie-awards/ |title=Critics' Choice Movie Awards |publisher=The Broadcast Films Critics Association |access-date=11 December 2012 |archive-date=14 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150314221226/http://www.criticschoice.com/movie-awards/ |url-status=dead }}

|Best Actress

|Emmanuelle Riva

|{{nom}}

Best Foreign Language Film

|Amour

|{{won}}

rowspan="2"|19th Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Awards{{cite news|url=http://www.dallasvoice.com/dallas-fort-worth-film-critics-bestow-awards-10134353.html|title=DFW Film Critics bestow 2012 awards|last=Jones|first=Arnold Wayne|date=18 December 2012|newspaper=Dallas Voice|access-date=18 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614144305/https://www.dallasvoice.com/dallas-fort-worth-film-critics-bestow-awards-10134353.html|archive-date=14 June 2018|url-status=dead}}

|Best Actress

|Emmanuelle Riva

|{{nom}}

Best Foreign Language Film

|Amour

|{{won}}

rowspan="1"|33rd Durban International Film Festival{{cite web|url=http://www.cca.ukzn.ac.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=682%3Aaward-winners-announced-at-durban-international-film-festival-2012&catid=30%3Anews-articles&Itemid=2|title=Award-winners Announced At Durban International Film Festival 2012|publisher=University of KwaZulu-Natal|access-date=18 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150506043247/http://www.cca.ukzn.ac.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=682%3Aaward-winners-announced-at-durban-international-film-festival-2012&catid=30%3Anews-articles&Itemid=2|archive-date=6 May 2015|url-status=dead}}

| Best Feature Film Award

|Michael Haneke

| {{Won}}

rowspan="6"|25th European Film Awards{{cite web|url=http://www.europeanfilmacademy.org/News-detail.155.0.html?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=88&cHash=b859c57aafcfa00d80f829301a1e03ec|title=The 25th European Film Awards: Winners|access-date=2 December 2012}}

|European Film

|Amour

| {{won}}

European Director

|Michael Haneke

| {{won}}

European Actor

|Jean-Louis Trintignant

| {{won}}

European Actress

|Emmanuelle Riva

| {{won}}

European Screenwriter

|Michael Haneke

| {{nom}}

Carlo di Palma European Cinematographer Award

|Darius Khondji

| {{nom}}

rowspan="1"|65th FIPRESCI Awards{{cite web|url=http://www.sansebastianfestival.com/in/noticia.php?ap=1&id=3008|title=Michael Haneke's Amour, winner of the FIPRESCI Grand Prix|access-date=30 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313200925/http://sansebastianfestival.com/in/noticia.php?ap=1&id=3008|archive-date=13 March 2016|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url= https://variety.com/2012/film/news/int-l-crix-love-haneke-s-amour-1118058703/ |title=Int'l crix love Haneke's 'Amour'|last=Mitchell|first=Robert|date=5 September 2012|publisher=Variety|access-date=5 September 2012}}

|Grand Prix

|Amour

|{{Won}}

70th Golden Globe Awards{{cite web|url=http://www.goldenglobes.org/2012/12/nominations-2013/ |title=2013 Golden Globe Nominations |date=12 December 2012 |publisher=HFPA |access-date=13 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121214105703/http://www.goldenglobes.org/2012/12/nominations-2013/ |archive-date=14 December 2012 }}{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21003435 |title=Golden Globes: Ben Affleck's Argo scoops two awards|date=14 January 2013|publisher=HFPA|access-date=14 January 2013}}

|Best Foreign Language Film

|rowspan="4"|Amour

|{{won}}

rowspan="1"|60th Golden Reel Awards{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-et-mn-60th-mpse-golden-reel-awards-nominees-list,0,2792540.story?page=3 |title=The 60th MPSE Golden Reel Awards nominees |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=14 February 2013 |date=17 January 2013}}

|Best Sound Editing - Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR in a Foreign Feature Film

|{{nom}}

48th Guldbagge Awards{{cite web|title=Nomineringarna till Guldbaggen|url=http://www.sydsvenskan.se/kultur--nojen/nomineringarna-till-guldbaggen/|publisher=Sydsvenskan.se|language=sv|access-date=3 January 2013|archive-date=6 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106021102/http://www.sydsvenskan.se/kultur--nojen/nomineringarna-till-guldbaggen/|url-status=dead}}

|Best Foreign Film

|{{won}}

rowspan="2"|6th Houston Film Critics Awards{{cite web |url=http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2012/12/15/lincoln-leads-houston-film-critic-society-awards-with-eight-nominations/ |title=Lincoln leads Houston Film Critic Society Awards with eight nominations |date=16 December 2012 |publisher=AwardsDaily.com |access-date=10 January 2013}}

|Best Foreign Language Film

|{{nom}}

Best Actress

|Emmanuelle Riva

|{{nom}}

rowspan="1"|28th Independent Spirit Awards{{cite web|url=http://www.spiritawards.com/nominee_category/best-international-film|title=Spirit Awards 2013|access-date=28 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130216070037/http://www.spiritawards.com/nominee_category/best-international-film|archive-date=16 February 2013|url-status=dead}}

|Best International Film

|Michael Haneke

|{{won}}

rowspan="2"|10th Irish Film & Television Awards{{cite web|url=http://ifta.ie/winners/index.html |title=Winners of the 10th Annual Irish Film & Television Awards |access-date=17 February 2013}}

|Best International Film

|Amour

|{{nom}}

Best International Actress

|Emmanuelle Riva

|{{nom}}

rowspan="7"|33rd London Film Critics Circle Awards{{cite web|url=http://www.criticscircle.org.uk/?ID=309&PID=1|title=The Circle Film Awards 2012 NOMINATIONS|date=18 December 2012|publisher=LFCC|access-date=18 December 2012}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21112126|title=Amour bags hat-trick of London Critics' Circle Film Awards|date=21 January 2013|publisher=BBC|access-date=21 January 2013}}

|Film of the Year

|Amour

|{{Won}}

Foreign Language Film of the Year

|Amour

|{{nom}}

Actor of the Year

|Jean-Louis Trintignant

|{{nom}}

Actress of the Year

|Emmanuelle Riva

|{{won}}

Supporting Actress of the Year

|Isabelle Huppert

|{{nom}}

Director of the Year

|rowspan="2"|Michael Haneke

|{{nom}}

Screenwriter of the Year

|{{won}}

rowspan="2"|38th Los Angeles Film Critics Awards{{cite web|url=http://www.lafca.net/years/2012.html|title=38th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics|date=5 December 2012|publisher=LAFCA|access-date=10 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131210235205/http://www.lafca.net/years/2012.html|archive-date=10 December 2013|url-status=dead}}

| Best Film

| Amour

| {{Won}}

Best Actress

|Emmanuelle Riva

| {{Won}}

rowspan="4"|18th Lumières Awards{{cite web|url=http://www.allocine.fr/festivals/festival-132/edition-18355264/palmares/#anchor_nominations |title=Prix et nominations : Lumières de la presse étrangère 2013 |publisher=AlloCiné |access-date=20 February 2013}}

| Best Film

| Amour

| {{Won}}

Best Actress

|Emmanuelle Riva

| {{Won}}

Best Actor

|Jean-Louis Trintignant

|{{won}}

Best Director

|Michael Haneke

| {{nom}}

84th National Board of Review{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2012/12/national-board-of-review-2012-winners-zero-dark-thirty-383041/|title=National Board Of Review Best Film: 'Zero Dark Thirty'|date=5 December 2012|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=5 December 2012}}

| Best Foreign Language Film

|rowspan="2"| Amour

| {{Won}}

rowspan="3"|47th National Society of Film Critics Awards{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalsocietyoffilmcritics.com/?p=59|title=2012 Awards: "Amour," Emmanuelle Riva, Daniel Day-Lewis|date=6 January 2013|publisher=National Society of Film Critics|access-date=5 December 2012}}

| Best Film

| {{Won}}

Best Director

|Michael Haneke

| {{Won}}

Best Actress

|Emmanuelle Riva

| {{Won}}

rowspan="2"|78th New York Film Critics Circle Awards{{cite web|url=http://www.nyfcc.com/awards/?cat=5|title=NYFCC - Best Foreign Film Awards|access-date=3 December 2012}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20592182|title=Kathryn Bigelow and Steven Spielberg win New York Film Critics awards|access-date=4 December 2012|work=BBC News|date=4 December 2012}}{{cite news |url= http://weblogs.variety.com/thevote/2012/12/the-gory-details-of-the-new-york-film-critics-circle-vote.html |archive-url= https://archive.today/20130205111500/http://weblogs.variety.com/thevote/2012/12/the-gory-details-of-the-new-york-film-critics-circle-vote.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 5 February 2013 |title= The gory details of the New York Film Critics Circle vote |publisher= Variety Media, LLC |access-date= 7 December 2012 }}

|Best Foreign Language Film

|Amour

|{{won}}

Best Actress

|Emmanuelle Riva

|{{nom}}

rowspan="2"|12th New York Film Critics Online Awards

|Best Foreign Film

|Amour

|{{won}}

Best Actress

|Emmanuelle Riva

|{{won}}

rowspan="2"|16th Online Film Critics Society Awards{{cite web |url=http://www.ofcs.org/awards/2012-awards-16th-annual/ |title= 2012 Awards (16th Annual) |date= 24 December 2012 |publisher=Online Film Critics Society |access-date=10 January 2013}}

|Best Film Not in the English Language

|Amour

|{{nom}}

Best Actress

|Emmanuelle Riva

|{{nom}}

rowspan="1"|15th Polish Academy Awards{{cite web |url=http://www.pnf.pl/aktualnosc/385/nominacje+do+orlow+2013+dorocznych+nagrod+polskiej+akademii+filmowej+ogloszone |title=NOMINACJE DO ORŁÓW 2013, DOROCZNYCH NAGRÓD POLSKIEJ |publisher=Polskie Nagrody Filmowe |access-date=11 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310021743/http://www.pnf.pl/aktualnosc/385/nominacje+do+orlow+2013+dorocznych+nagrod+polskiej+akademii+filmowej+ogloszone |archive-date=10 March 2013 |url-status=dead }}

|Best European Film

|Amour

|{{won}}

69th Prix Louis Delluc{{cite web|url=http://toutelaculture.com/2012/12/le-prix-louis-delluc-recompense-benoit-jacquot-pour-ses-adieux-a-la-reine/|title=Le Prix Louis Delluc récompense Benoît Jacquot pour ses |date=17 December 2012|publisher=toutelaculture|access-date=17 December 2012}}

| Best Film

|Amour

|{{nom}}

17th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards{{cite web|url=http://www.sdfcs.org/|title=San Diego Film Critics Society 2012 Awards|access-date=11 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207094324/http://www.sdfcs.org/|archive-date=7 December 2013|url-status=dead}}

|Best Foreign Language Film

| Amour

|{{nom}}

rowspan=2|14th San Francisco Film Critics Awards{{cite web|url=http://sffcc.org/main/ |title=2012 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards |date=16 December 2012 |publisher=SFFCC |access-date=17 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121209012613/http://sffcc.org/main/ |archive-date=9 December 2012 }}

|Best Foreign Film

| Amour

|{{won}}

Best Actress

|Emmanuelle Riva

|{{won}}

rowspan="2"|17th Satellite Awards{{cite web |url=http://www.pressacademy.com/award_cat/current-nominees/ |title=17th Satellite Awards Nominations |publisher= International Press Academy |access-date=5 December 2012}}

|Best Foreign Language Film

|Amour

|{{nom}}

Best Actress

|Emmanuelle Riva

|{{nom}}

2012 The Globe and Mail Review{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/the-years-top-10-films-as-chosen-by-our-critics/article6339465/ |title=The Best Movies of 2012 |publisher=The Atlantic Monthly Group |access-date=21 February 2012 |location=Toronto}}

|Best Film

|Amour

|{{won}}

rowspan="3"|2012 The Village Voice Poll{{cite web |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/filmpoll/cat/film/2012/ |title=2012 The Village Voice Poll |publisher= Village Voice, LLC |access-date=21 February 2013}}

|Best Film

|Amour

|{{won}}

Best Actress

|Emmanuelle Riva

|{{nom}}

Best Actor

|Jean-Louis Trintignant

|{{nom}}

rowspan="3"|16th Toronto Film Critics Association Awards{{cite web|url=http://www.torontofilmcritics.com/2012/12/toronto-film-critics-association.html |title=Toronto Film Critics Association Announces 2012 Awards |publisher=Toronto Film Critics Association |access-date=14 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123032408/http://www.torontofilmcritics.com/2012/12/toronto-film-critics-association.html |archive-date=23 January 2013 }}

|Best Foreign Language Film

|rowspan="2"|Amour

|{{won}}

Best Picture

|{{nom}}

Best Actress

|Emmanuelle Riva

|{{nom}}

13th Vancouver Film Critics Circle{{cite web |url=http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2012/12/27/lincoln-leads-vancouver-film-critics/ |title=Lincoln Leads Vancouver Film Critics |publisher=AwardsDaily.com |access-date=27 December 2012}}

|Best Film

|Amour

|{{nom}}

rowspan="2"|11th WDCAFCA Awards{{cite web|url=http://www.dcfilmcritics.com/awards/|title=The 2012 WAFCA Award Nominees |access-date=9 December 2012}}

|Best Foreign Language Film

|Amour

|{{won}}

Best Actress

|Emmanuelle Riva

|{{nom}}

Legacy

Both Sight & Sound film magazine and Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian named Amour the third-best film of 2012.{{cite web |url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/paul-thomas-andersons-the-master-tops-sight-sounds-best-of-2012-20121201 |title=Paul Thomas Anderson's 'The Master' Tops Sight & Sound's Best Of 2012 |author=Kevin Jagernauth |date=1 December 2012 |access-date=1 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121203205058/http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/paul-thomas-andersons-the-master-tops-sight-sounds-best-of-2012-20121201 |archive-date=3 December 2012 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |last=Bradshaw |first=Peter |title=The 10 best films of 2012, No 3 - Amour |url= https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2012/dec/12/best-films-amour-michael-haneke |work=The Guardian|access-date=12 December 2012 |date=12 December 2012 |location=London}}

In 2016, Amour was named the 42nd-best film of the 21st century in a poll of 177 film critics from around the world.{{Cite web |date=23 August 2016 |title=The 21st Century's 100 greatest films |url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160819-the-21st-centurys-100-greatest-films |access-date=16 September 2016}} It was 69th on BBC's 2018 list of the 100 greatest foreign-language films as voted by 209 film critics from 43 countries.{{cite web |date=29 October 2018 |title=The 100 Greatest Foreign Language Films |url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20181029-the-100-greatest-foreign-language-films |access-date=10 January 2021 |website=bbc}}

Indie Shorts Mag noted Amour's influence on Max Hechtman's and Christonikos Tsalikis's short film Abigail (2019) in its use of symbolism to capture the emotional weight of the two elderly protagonists.{{cite web |url=https://www.indieshortsmag.com/reviews/2025/03/abigail-a-powerhouse-performance-in-drama-about-end-of-life-and-heartbreak/|title=Abigail: A Powerhouse Performance in Drama About End of Life and Heartbreak |publisher=Indie Shorts Mag |access-date=March 16, 2025 |date=March 16, 2025}}

See also

References

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