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Earlier mentions of Michael Haneke's These Two being a tad too close to Sarah Polley's Away From Her can officially be put to rest. Essentially, both films focus on twilight years aged couples dealing with symptoms/consequences of growing old and subsequently coming to terms with it, but while Polley's film works with degenerative disease text, Haneke's film will strike his featured couple with a stroke - making a victim of not one, but two people.In other news, These Two will be shot in February and last for about 40 days, meaning we could see the film released by year's end. Big question is: who will handle the score?

Earlier in the year, Michael Haneke was contemplating a pair of film ideas and the one that we thought was temporarily "shelved", has according to Haneke's muse Isabelle Huppert, been thrown back on the burner. A film project that Haneke had mentioned as early as 2006, Ces Deux had financial backing and already had thesps Huppert and Jean Louis Trintignant confirmed, but Haneke's "internet" project would take the lead.

The noms are in folks (see full list below) and apart from the love that The Blind Side has received (the backlash has officially began around 9 eastern this morning), there are very little surprises -- which only means status quo on films and people that officially received the cold shoulder months ago.

Michael Haneke is returning to the "aging" project he had begun scripting before The White Ribbon. French sources say that he'll be re-teaming with Isabelle Huppert and has set Jean-Louis Trintignant in the lead role of a man dealing with the notion of a deteriorating, aging body but a youthful mind.

You'd have to go way back until 1988's Bille August's Pelle the Conqueror to find the last picture to win both the Cannes Palme d'or and the Oscar for Best Foreign film in the same year.