Amélie won Best Film at the European Film Awards ; it won four César Awards ( including Best Film and Best Director ), two BAFTA Awards ( including Best Original Screenplay ), and was nominated for five Academy Awards.

* 1979 – Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player

** Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player

The absence of Amélie at the festival caused something of a controversy because of the warm welcome by the French media and audience in contrast with the reaction of the selector.

Montmartre was the setting of the film La Môme, ( La vie en rose ) which elaborates on the life of famous French singer Edith Piaf and her times in the slums of Paris, and of Amélie, the story of a young Parisian woman determined to help the lives of others and find her true love, is set in an exaggeratedly quaint version of contemporary Montmartre.

Her mother was Amélie Marie Celeste Miltenberger, an architect's daughter, of French Alsatian descent ; her family had built three interconnected Miltenberger mansions on Rue Royale.

Belgian Francophone literature is sometimes difficult to distinct from French literature as a whole, because several great French authors went to Belgium for refuge ( e. g. Apollinaire, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine and recent tax-refugee Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt ) and conversely, top French-speaking writers sometimes settle in Paris ( e. g. Simenon, Amélie Nothomb ).

Most famous Belgian authors are: Guido Gezelle ( 1830 – 1899 ), Emile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), Max Elskamp ( 1862 – 1931 ), Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949 ), Paul van Ostaijen ( 1896 – 1926 ), Henri Michaux ( French born and educated in Belgium, 1899 – 1984 ) and Jacques Brel ( 1929 – 1978 ) and prose writers: Hendrik Conscience ( 1812 – 1883 ), Charles de Coster ( 1827 – 1879 ), Willem Elsschot ( 1882 – 1960 ), Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ), Georges Simenon 1903-1989, Louis Paul Boon ( 1912 – 1979 ), Hugo Claus ( 1929 – 2008 ), Pierre Mertens ( born in 1939 ) Ernest Claes ( 1885 – 1968 ), and, Amélie Nothomb ( born in 1967 ).

He also uses the toy piano to musically recreate the childhood of the main character in the French movie Amélie, which features a soundtrack composed mostly by him.

No Man's Land won Prix du scénario at the Cannes Film Festival, followed by numerous awards, including the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2001, while in competition with French Amélie and the Indian blockbuster Lagaan.

Amélie Simone Mauresmo ; ( born 5 July 1979 ) is a French former professional tennis player, and a former World No. 1.

A minor scandal arose when Philippe, comte de Paris, the nominal inheritor of the French throne in the eyes of Orléanist monarchists, married his daughter Amélie to Portugal's Carlos I, in a lavish wedding that provoked fears of anti-Republican ambitions.

In 2001, the award-winning French film Amélie included a scene showing the protagonist's house-bound neighbor mesmerized by a montage of video clips which featured a performance of " Up Above My Head " by Tharpe.

Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet wrote the character Amélie for Watson to play ( Amélie was originally named Emily ) but she eventually turned the role down due to difficulties speaking French and a desire not to be away from home.

The concept of the roaming gnome and his international escapades dates back to the " traveling gnome prank that began in the 1980s, later reflected in the 2001 French film Amélie.

The title track, sung by French soloist singer Claire Pichet, will be used about one year later for the Palme d ' Or nominated French drama film The Dreamlife of Angels, and several tracks will find a much larger audience five years later when they were featured on the soundtrack to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film Amélie.

No Man's Land went on to win the Award for Best Screenplay ( Prix du scénario ) at Cannes, followed by numerous awards, including the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2001, while in competition with French Amélie.

He is mentioned in the French film Le Fabuleux Déstin d ' Amélie Poulain, known in English as Amelie.

Parts of the soundtrack are reminiscent of Yann Tiersen's best known film work, the soundtrack for Amélie, which was in turn strongly influenced by French music.

The variant form Amelie is derived from the French equivalent, Amélie.

She then won two hardcourt tournaments in the Middle East, the Dubai Duty Free Women's Open ( for the fourth time in five years ) over Amélie Mauresmo and her first Qatar Total Open title in Doha, defeating Svetlana Kuznetsova in the final.

In May, she won her first singles title in the Rome Masters, defeating Amélie Mauresmo in the final 7 – 6, 6 – 1.

* Abbesses is featured in Le Fabuleux destin d ' Amélie Poulain ; a working title for the film was Amélie des Abbesses ( Amélie of the Abbesses ).

Madame X or Portrait of Madame X is the informal title of a portrait painting by John Singer Sargent of a young socialite named Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, wife of Pierre Gautreau.

At the Qatar Total Open held in Doha, Petrova picked up her first title of the year and second overall by beating second-ranked and top-seeded Amélie Mauresmo 6 – 3, 7 – 5 in the final.

She won one singles title, in Memphis, Tennessee and reached the final of the events in Cincinnati, Ohio and Philadelphia, losing to top-10 players Lindsay Davenport and Amélie Mauresmo.

* The canal appears in the 2001 film Amélie by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, in which the title character enjoys skipping stones at the locks of the canal.

* Le fabuleux destin d ' Amélie Poulain-Lucien ( 2001, English title: Amélie )

Nadia Petrova won her first title after several lost finals in Linz, and Amélie Mauresmo won her third straight title in Philadelphia.

Fear and Trembling ( original title Stupeur et tremblements ) is a French film based on the novel of the same name by Amélie Nothomb.

Fear and Trembling ( original title: Stupeur et tremblements, which means " Amazement and trembling ") is a novel by Amélie Nothomb, first published in 1999.

In the women's singles, two-time defending champion Martina Hingis successfully defended her title, defeating another surprise finalist in Frenchwoman Amélie Mauresmo, 6 – 2, 6 – 3.

Šafářová has won four WTA tour singles titles, one doubles title and reached the quarterfinals of the 2007 Australian Open, upsetting defending champion Amélie Mauresmo en route.

Amélie Mauresmo won her first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open, and followed it with her second at Wimbledon.

Amélie Mauresmo won her first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open after years of questions about her nerves and mental capabilities.

She won her first WTA Tour singles title at the Ordina Open, beating Amélie Mauresmo, Elena Dementieva and Henin ; and reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time at Wimbledon.

2 Amélie Mauresmo in the first round of the Australian Open, but won the mixed doubles title with Scott Draper over Liezel Huber and Kevin Ullyett.

In 2001, after a brief stint in Hollywood, Jean-Pierre Jeunet returned to France with Amélie ( Le Fabuleux Destin d ' Amélie Poulain ) starring Audrey Tautou and Mathieu Kassovitz.

* the famous and often sung rue Lepic with its Les Deux Moulins café, made famous around the world by Le Fabuleux Destin d ' Amélie Poulain movie,

Her 1934 recording Si tu n ' étais pas là was featured in the 2001 soundtrack for the film Le Fabuleux Destin d ' Amélie Poulain ( Amélie ).

Over the next two years he continued his stage shows, before returning to film with the highly-successful Le fabuleux destin d ' Amélie Poulain.

* Le Fabuleux destin d ' Amélie Poulain ( 2001 )-uncredited, man on photo in Nino's photo album

* Le Fabuleux destin d ' Amélie Poulain by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

* The painting was featured prominently in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film Le Fabuleux destin d ' Amélie Poulain — released in English as Amélie ( 2001 ).

* Le Fabuleux Destin d ' Amélie Poulain ( 2000 ), directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet starring Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz