Roughly three weeks before its U.S. release in select cities, Michael Haneke's drama Amour has swept the four main awards at the 2012 European Film Awards, winning awards for European Film, European Director and European Actor and Actress for Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where it was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics, and it's been running the gauntlet of fall film festivals while garnering support among critics. Amour is Austria's selection for the Foreign Language category at the Oscars and a strong contender to receive nominations in other categories with the Academy often honoring foreign films such as Pedro Almodovar's Talk to Her and Fernando Meirelles' City of God outside the Foreign Language category....
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