'' Hiroshima mon amour '' earned an Oscar nomination for screenwriter Marguerite Duras as well as the Fipresci International Critics ' Prize at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival , where the film was excluded from the official selection because of its sensitive subject matter of nuclear bombs as well as to avoid upsetting the U.S. government . It won the prestigious Grand Prix of the Belgian Film Critics Association in 1960 . In 2002 , it was voted by the international contributors of the French film magazine '' Positif '' to be one of the top 10 films since 1952 , the first issue of the magazine
1959 Cannes Film Festival
1959 Cannes Film Festival
Hiroshima mon amour