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.
Westward Passage Westward Passage is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Robert Milton and starring Ann Harding, Laurence Olivier, ZaSu Pitts and Irving Pichel. A woman falls in love and marries, but soon discovers how unpleasant her new husband is. The film marked Olivier's second major role in the United States. It was not a commercial or critical success, and Olivier did not make another film in America until 1939 when he starred in "Wuthering Heights". The film recorded a loss of $250,000.