The 2012 Rober Awards Film Poll is now open. ‘Amour’, Michael Haneke’s painfully real drama about an elderly couple coping with degenerative illness; Leos Carax’s visionary hommage to cinema in ‘Holy Motors’ and first timer Behn Zeitlin’s poetic tale of a Katrina-like catastrophe narrated from the point of view of a five year old kid, ‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’, head the nominations list with eight apiece.

On a superb year for movies, the rest of contenders for best picture are The Master; Django Unchained; Zero Dark Thirty; Tabú; No; Once Upon A Time In Anatolia and Argo. Whereas Silver Linings Playbook; Life Of Pi; Berberian Sound Studio; Moonrise Kingdom; Barbara; Rust and Bone; etc. are also among the works earning multiple nominations.

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