]The film received only two Academy Awards nominations without winning any Oscars: Best B/W Cinematography (Joseph Walker) in preliminary balloting, and Best Special Effects (Roy Davidson and Edwin C.It""s not that I""m overly ambitious, it""s just a way of killing time, until it""s all right for me to go home.The vivid nightmare awakens him in the dark, abandoned building - in a room Ratso has lit with small church candles (the electricity and heat were turned off long ago).Those happy old times can""t come back.We shouldn""t expect them to.We""re man and woman now, we can""t be playmates any longer.But we can be brother and sister, o love and help one another all the rest of our lives, can""t we, Laurie?The ending scene brought together the March sisters with heir husbands (Meg with John Brooke (John Lodge), and Amy with Laurie) returning home for a long-awaited visit.