This sentimental film, Ford""s first ""romantic love story,"" received a total of seven Academy Awards nominations (including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor - Victor McLaglen, Best Screenplay - Frank Nugent, Best Art Direction, and Best Sound) and won two Oscars: Best Cinematography - Winton Hoch and Archie Stout, and Ford (at 57 years of age) won his fourth and final Best Director Oscar, establishing a record that is still unbeaten.Otherwise, it""s like swimming in an empty swimming pool." Charles is shocked and embarrassed as he wins $500 from the Colonel and roughly $100 from Jean by the end of the evening.Philadelphia society looks forward to the wedding Saturday of Mrs.Tracy Lord Haven, former wife of C.K.Dexter Haven, and Mr.George Kittredge.The Ceremony will take place at the house of Mr.and Mrs.Seth Lord, the bride""s parents.Tracy""s matronly and formal mother Margaret Lord (Mary Nash) is involved with the preparations in progress a little over wenty four hours before the big-scale wedding and reception.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)), was based on the published 1951 short storyThe Sentinel, written in 1948 by English science fiction author Arthur C.