York's Central Park Theater. The film was not a box-office success upon release, grossing just $472,000 worldwide, which failed to recoup Murnau and Paramount's investment. At the 4th Academy Awards Floyd Crosby was awarded the Oscar for Best Cinematography. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: 2002: AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions – Nominated Preservation status and restoration The film's ownership reverted to Murnau's mother Ottilie Plumpe after distribution rights lapsed in the mid-1930s. The original negative was returned to Germany, where it was destroyed during World War II. In 1940, Plumpe sold the worldwide distribution rights to Rowland and Samuel Brown. During World War II, the US government seized the film, believing it was owned by German citizens. The Brown brothers regained the film after the war and re-released the film in 1948, adding an alternate title sequence and cutting five minutes out of the film including content then deemed objectionable by the Production Code. The re-release was not a success and in the 1960s Murnau's nieces, Ursula Plumpe and Eva Diekmann, bought back the rights. In 1973, a complete nitrate print of the 1931 release was discovered and screened at the American Film Institute. Floyd Crosby funded a preservation negative by the UCLA Film and Television Archive based on this print, to preserve the film for future generations. Home media Tabu was released on region 1 DVD by Image Entertainment. This version runs 80 minutes 51 seconds. The disc also includes a commentary by film historian Janet Bergstrom; twenty minutes of outtakes; and a short film called Reri in New York. Masters of Cinema released a Region 0 DVD in the UK and Ireland. This version of the film runs 82 minutes 14 seconds with PAL speed up (85 minutes 42 seconds (NTSC)). This version re-instates the footage cut by Paramount prior to the film's premiere, including shots of nudity. The DVD contains a commentary with R. Dixon Smith and Brad Stevens, as well as a booklet containing essays and the original stories Turia and Tabu by Flaherty and Murnau upon which the film is based. It was restored for Blu-ray release in the UK as part of the Eureka Masters of Cinema Series (Spine No 61) and issued in June 2013. Included is a longer version than the Paramount 1931 release; an extensive booklet (56pp); a short program on Murnau's films; extensive clapperboard footage