Who directed the movie which earned Marguerite Duras a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards?
Marguerite Duras Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras (] ; 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), was a French novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her 1959 film "Hiroshima mon amour", earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.
Mississippi Mermaid Mississippi Mermaid (French: "La sirène du Mississipi" ) is a 1969 French romantic drama film directed by François Truffaut and starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo. Adapted from the 1947 novel "Waltz into Darkness" by Cornell Woolrich, the film is about a tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean who becomes engaged through correspondence to a woman he does not know. When she arrives it is not the same woman in the photo, but he marries her anyway. Filmed in southern France and Réunion island, "Mississippi Mermaid" was the 17th highest-grossing film of the year in France with a total of 1,221,027 admissions. It was remade in 2001 as "Original Sin", directed by Michael Cristofer and starring Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas.