The Southerner - TRAILER (1945)
Channel: Cinephile
Date: 2020-10-01

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The Southerner is a 1945 American drama film directed by Jean Renoir and based on the 1941 novel "Hold Autumn in Your Hand" by George Sessions Perry. 

The film received Oscar nominations for Best Director (the only Oscar nomination Renoir received), Original Music Score, and Sound. 

Renoir was named Best Director by the National Board of Review, which also named the film the third best of 1945.

The film, now in the public domain, portrays the hardships of a poor family struggling to establish a cotton farm in Texas in the early 1940s.

Wins by the National Board of Review: NBR Award, Best Director, Jean Renoir, also Top Ten Film,  1945.

Wins at the Venice Film Festival: Best Feature Film, 1946.

Nominations for Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Director, Jean Renoir

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