12/12/2012 - Both French actresses nominated for a Best Actress award by the American and Canadian critics

France has done very well on the nomination list for the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, an event to be held next January 10 by the BFCA, the largest association of American and Canadian film critics. Emmanuelle Riva (Love [+see also:
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interview: Jacques Audiard
interview: Jacques Audiard
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interview: Juan Antonio Bayona
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Three French majority productions are among the four nominees for Best Foreign Film category, as Michael Haneke’s Love, Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone, and Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano’s The Intouchables [+see also:
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interview: Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
interview: Nikolaj Arcel
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Alexandre Desplat has been nominated twice for the soundtracks of American films Argo and Moonrise Kingdom.

British productions have also done well with, among others, 11 nominations for Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables [+see also:
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making of
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(Translated from French)