Although the film was nominated for four Academy Awards nominations (without recognition for director Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schrader, or cinematographer Michael Chapman): Best Picture, Best Actor (Robert De Niro), Best Supporting Actress (Jodie Foster), and Best Original Score (Bernard Herrmann, nominated posthumously -- Herrmann passed away shortly after completing his work in this film) - all were unrewarded.Are you a man of such eminence then?" Pittsburgh-raised in a steel town, Sean assures her that his idealized intentions are pure - Innisfree has been his equivalent of "heaven," his Shangri-La salvation from the "hell" of Pittsburgh, his paradise, his idealized vision of his mother""s memories:Look, Mrs.Of the seven Academy Award nominations, there were four Oscars: Goldman was awarded an Oscar for Best Story and Screenplay and Conrad Hall was honored for his cinematography."We trouped through depression and inflation.Part of the country""s growing pains.We froze in winter and roasted in summer.But it was a good life.It""s a lucky family that dances ogether every day.[The family dances in blackface together.] Eighteen ninety-one found our fortunes flat as a pancake.Then came a bolt from the blue.Jobs for the whole family in a play calledPeck""s Bad Boy.We opened in Brooklyn.The town was noted for its spirited audiences.Even before it had a ball team.At the Brooklyn Theater, a huge billboard reads: "OPENING TONIGHT - The Brooklyn Theatre presents THE COHANS in ""Peck""s Bad Boy"" - A Rolicking Comedy.