Who directed the movie which earned Marguerite Duras a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards?
Hiroshima mon amour Hiroshima mon amour (] , "Hiroshima My Love"; Japanese: 二十四時間の情事 "Nijūyojikan'nojōji", "Twenty-four-hour affair") is a 1959 drama film directed by French film director Alain Resnais, with a screenplay by Marguerite Duras. It is the documentation of an intensely personal conversation between a French-Japanese couple about memory and forgetfulness. It was a major catalyst for the Left Bank Cinema, making highly innovative use of miniature flashbacks to create a uniquely nonlinear storyline.
Gervaise (film) Gervaise is a 1956 French film directed by René Clément based on the novel "L'Assommoir" by Émile Zola. It depicts a working-class woman in the mid-nineteenth century (played by Maria Schell) trying to cope with the descent of her husband (played by François Périer) into alcoholism. The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 29th Academy Awards. Schell won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 1956 Venice Film Festival for her performance.