As with many of Hitchcock""s films, there were Academy Award nominations, but no Oscars.This film was nominated for three awards: Best Story and Screenplay (Ernest Lehman), Best Color Art Direction/Set Decoration, and Best Film Editing (George Tomasini).And now, he climaxed his techniques inFootlight Parade (1933), especially in its teasing and naughty "By A Waterfall" sequence.I thought the ruby might afford her some ease in life, but I never imagined she""d take hose scribblin""s and make a life of her own.The water-rights scandal at the heart of the film expresses how ecological rape of the land has occurred in outrageous land-development schemes that redirect the water""s flow.