Editing Louisiana Story (section)

==Reception and awards==
The film was nominated for an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for [[Academy Award for Best Story|Best Writing, Motion Picture Story]] in 1948.<ref name="Gevinson1997">{{cite book |last=Gevinson |first=Alan |title=Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bsoUXGZSxZcC&pg=PA614 |year=1997 |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |isbn=978-0-520-20964-0 |page=614}}</ref> In 1949, [[Virgil Thomson]] won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Music]] for his score to the film (which is based on a famous field tape of authentic Cajun musicians and was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy). Through 2021, this has remained the only Pulitzer Prize awarded for a film score.<ref>{{cite book |last=McLane |first=Barbara A. |title=A New History of Documentary Film: Second Edition |page=68 |date=2012 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-1441124579 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rt0Wwjs4zyYC&pg=PA68}}</ref><ref>[[Pulitzer Prize for Music|Wikipedia list of Pulitzer Prizes for Music]]</ref> In 1994, ''Louisiana Story'' was selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref>{{Cite news|date=1994-11-15|title=25 Films Added to National Registry (Published 1994)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/15/movies/25-films-added-to-national-registry.html|access-date=2020-12-04|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|access-date=2020-12-04|website=Library of Congress}}</ref> The movie was also in the top 10 of the first British Film Institute's ''[[Sight & Sound|Sight and Sound]]'' poll in 1952.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/greatest-films-all-time/1952 |title=The Greatest Films of All Time… in 1952 |access-date=2024-04-24| website=British Film Institute|date=22 February 2022 }}</ref>

The film is recognized by the [[American Film Institute]] in this list:
* 2005: [[AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores]] – Nominated