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).g.Owen Taylor and Sean Regan), several other characters appear only momentarily or are rapidly dispatched, and important information is deliberately missing.- places hat have connections with the past or with death.]The next day, in fantasy-like, soft-focused diffused light, he trails the gray-suited woman in her light-green (!) Jaguar sedan all over San Francisco as she drives around and around (almost always driving down streets, going left then right, left then right).In a similar camera movement (only reversed), when Willie steps up next to Mary on her father""s boat, the camera pans up and to the left to reveal Bill, Sr, shouting from his steering room toward his son to return to his own boat.The remainder of the film""s narrative is set in Paris.In the next scene, a clever transitionary scene from Venice to Paris, a Morse-Code like radio-transmitted signal is beamed from the top of a technology-transformed Eiffel Tower (viewed at night) - the signals shoot out like bolts of lightning (similar to the RKO Pictures opening trademark).