Amélie
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Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain) is a 2001 French romantic fable directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou as a shy Montmartre waitress who secretly orchestrates small acts of happiness for people around her while falling in love Featuring a score by Yann Tiersen and cinematography by Bruno Delbonnel, the film became an international phenomenon, earning five Academy Award nominations (including Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Screenplay) and winning top honors at the 2002 César Awards International Crossover Benchmark: Unifrance highlights Amélie as a rare French-language film to achieve mass commercial penetration in notoriously resistant English-language markets, propelled by the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award and five Oscar nominations Aesthetic & Musical Signature: Jeunet's hyper-stylized Montmartre color palette (Bruno Delbonnel's cinematography, Aline Bonetto's production design) paired with Yann Tiersen's accordion-and-piano score (La Valse d'Amélie) created an enduring visual-sonic brand International Territory Performance: Grossed $33.2M in the United States (~5.5 million admissions across 300 theaters via Miramax), £5M in the United Kingdom (784,000 admissions), AU$6.8M in Australia (763,000 admissions), and 753,000 admissions in Poland (averaging 26,000 admissions per print, ahead of Japan's 24,000 per print) U.S. French-Language Record: Became the top-grossing French-language film of all time in the United States upon its 2001–2002 run
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Structured Facts & Specifications
Verified highlightsNode Type
film
Entity Name
Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain)
Release & Runtime
French theatrical release 25 April 2001 (production year 2000); runtime 120 minutes
Director & Screenwriters
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet; written by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant
Ontology & Schema.org Tags
schema:Movie, top10grid:Film, top10grid:FrenchCinema, top10grid:RomanticComedy
Authoritative Digital Footprint
Unifrance (https://en.unifrance.org/movie/20864/amelie-from-montmartre) and Académie des César (https://www.academie-cinema.org/evenements/ceremonie-des-cesar-2002/)
