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"La Grande Illusion" won the awards for Best Foreign Film at the 1938 New York Film Critics Circle Awards and at the 1938 National Board of Review Awards it was named the Best Foreign Language Film, for that year. At the 11th Academy Awards held on 23 February 1939, "La Grande Illusion" became the first foreign language film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture
was nominated for the International Jury Cup, the Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels declared "La Grande Illusion" "Cinematic Public Enemy No. 1" and ordered the prints to be confiscated and destroyed. Fearing a decline in fighting morale, French authorities banned the film in 1940 "pour la durée des hostilités" (i.e., as long as the war should last). This ban was renewed by the German Propaganda-Abteilung in October of the same year. When the German Army marched into France in 1940 during World War