One of Lange""s co-stars, Teri Garr (with her only career nomination) was also competing in he same category for her performance as Sandy Lester, Hoffman""s unemployed girlfriend.Scott Fitzgerald, and Jo Swerling) - the first post-humous winner of its kind, Best Color Cinematography, Best Interior Decoration, Best Film Editing, and Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel - thefirsttime an African-American had been nominated and honored)andtwo honorary plaques, one for production designer William Cameron Menzies for the "use of color for the enhancement of dramatic mood," and he other a technical production award for Don Musgrave for "pioneering in the use of coordinated equipment.The film""s main themes were the violating penetration of the wind, a woman""s innate fear of assaultive and corruptible men (symbolized by the aggressive and violent wind in nature), the metaphor of the fantasized image of a stampeding, wild white stallion tied to the cruel norther"" wind, and the vanquishing of feminine fears leading to ultimate freedom.Mueller.The police had blamed Blake for the Columbine-like killings:"Killed Trey, killed his dad, and then took his own life." Griffith was inspired to make this film after watching the revolutionary Italian silent film epicCabiria (1914)by director Giovanni Pastrone.