as His Father E. Bienvenu as His Mother (as Mrs. E. Bienvenu) Frank Hardy as The Driller C.P. Guedry as The Boilerman Production The film was shot on location in the Louisiana bayou country, using local residents for actors. However, none of the members of the Cajun family (boy, father and mother) were related, and the film does not deal with Cajun culture, the reality of the hard lives of the Cajun people, or with the mechanics of drilling for oil. The story is completely fictional. In 1952, it was reissued by an exploitation film outfit with a new title, Cajun, on the bottom half of a double-bill with another film titled Watusi. Reception and awards The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story in 1948. 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 Symphony). Through 2021, this has remained the only Pulitzer Prize awarded for a film score. 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". The movie was also in the top 10 of the first British Film Institute's Sight and Sound poll in 1952. The film is recognized by the American Film Institute in these lists: 2005: AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores – Nominated See also Docufiction List of docufiction films References External links Patricia A. Suchy and James V. Catano, "Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story", Southern Spaces (27 April 2010) Louisiana Story essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, Bloomsbury Academic, 2010 , pages 419-421 1948 films United States National Film Registry films Films directed by Robert Flaherty Films set in Louisiana Films shot in Louisiana Southern Gothic films Sponsored films American docufiction films Works about petroleum Pulitzer Prize for Music-winning works Films about raccoons 1940s American films