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Gibson and Penn were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Penn was nominated as Best Director, and both Bancroft (portraying Sullivan) and Duke (portraying Keller) won the Academy Award for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively.
Marian's awards were many. In 1938 Eleanor Roosevelt presented her with the NAACP's Spingarn Award for that American Negro who has made the highest achievement in any honorable field of endeavor.. In 1941 she was granted the Edward Bok Award for distinguished service to the city of Philadelphia.