Others have heeded , at least as a starting point , the indications given by Robbe-Grillet in the introduction to his screenplay : " Two attitudes are then possible : either the spectator will try to reconstitute some ' Cartesian ' scheme – the most linear , the most rational he can devise – and this spectator will certainly find the film difficult if not incomprehensible ; or else the spectator will let himself be carried along by the extraordinary images in front of him ... and to this spectator , the film will seem the easiest he has ever seen : a film addressed exclusively to his sensibility , to his faculties of sight , hearing , feeling . " Robbe-Grillet offered a further suggestion of how one might view the work : " The whole film , as a matter of fact , is the story of a persuading " '' une persuasion '' " : it deals with a reality which the hero creates out of his own vision , out of his own words . " Resnais for his part gave a more abstract explanation of the film 's purpose : " For me this film is an attempt , still very crude and very primitive , to approach the complexity of thought , of its processes . " The film won the Golden Lion at the 1961 Venice Film Festival . In 1962 it won the critics ' award in the category Best Film of the Syndicat Français de la Critique de cinéma in France . The film was selected by France as its entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 34th Academy Awards in 1962 , but was not accepted as a nominee . However , it was nominated for the 1963 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay ( Alain Robbe-Grillet ) and it was also nominated for a Hugo Award as '' Best Dramatic Presentation ''
34th Academy Awards
34th Academy Awards
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