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...", followed by a brief prologue.A distant moon came into view in pale gray light.Large bands or rings circled around a gigantic planet named Lah""mu, where a wishbone-shaped Galactic Empire shuttle-craft approached and descended toward a mountain range.When the Dementors began to suck their lives away, Harry called up a Patronus charm ("Expecto Patronum") with his wand to drive them away.The Best Picture award went to the serious biopicThe Life of Emile Zola.Its other nominations included: Best Picture, Best Actress (Irene Dunne with her third nomination), Best Supporting Actor (Ralph Bellamy), Best Screenplay (Vina Delmar), and Best Film Editing.Laurence Harvey is brilliant as a brainwashed Korean war hero who has been programmed as a Soviet sleeper/mole agent o assassinate a Presidential candidate.