It was honored with three awards - Gregory Peck won a well-deserved Best Actor Award (his first Oscar win and fifth Oscar nomination) for his solid performance as a courageous Alabama lawyer, Horton Foote won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar (Foote won a second Oscar forTender Mercies (1983)), and the team of Art Directors/Set Decorators also received the top honor.Attesting to her own innocence, Paula hugs a Bible o her chest - vowing that she didn""t remove the picture.The cold, calculating, recognition-hungry, jealous Salieri seemed obsessed with trying to write music for God." Joey: "All right.This is the drink that we never had before"), but then another brief scuffle and flurry of insults momentarily broke out between them.She agreed with the idea, and Joe and Connie followed the scheme to avert the crisis.The two flew to South Carolina for a quickie marriage, and then returned o Connie""s apartment.In their final night there before Joe was to be deployed, he wall separating their bedrooms had been removed by Dingle.