Baptist South, The Exorcist was seen as acceptable viewing amid denunciations of many other horror films that supposedly promoted the occult, because, as a writer in Slate recalls, it and movies like The Omen "didn't encourage people to dabble in the dark arts, they warned people. More to the point, they acknowledged the existence of God, the influence of Satan, and the truth of the Bible." British Baptist minister Peter Laws has credited the film with persuading him to abandon his youthful atheism and become a Christian: In 2015 the District of Columbia posted a commemorative plaque on what had become known as the Exorcist steps in Georgetown, since they had become a popular tourist attraction. At a ceremony the day before Halloween that year, Blatty and Friedkin were among those present as the plaque, with Mayor Muriel Bowser's signature, was unveiled. Friedkin said that having his name on the plaque was a greater honor than another Academy Award would have been, since "the Academy may come and go. Its importance has been diminished over the years anyway. But that plaque on those steps is going to be there for a very long time." Vietnamese-born Danish artist Danh Võ saw The Exorcist with his family after his Catholic mother became interested in horror films following the family's journey from Vietnam to Europe after the war. He was seven at the time. In 2016 he developed an exhibit inspired by the film that, other than the title, a string of 266 obscene phrases shouted by the possessed Regan to Karras, does not visually reference the film. The White Cube gallery in Hong Kong, which showed it, describes it as 600 carved mammoth fossils and a 17th-century ivory figurine suspended from the gallery's ceiling. Accolades The Exorcist was nominated for 10 Academy Awards in 1974, winning two. It was the first horror film to be nominated for Best Picture. The film was also nominated for seven Golden Globe Awards, winning four, including Best Motion Picture – Drama. The revelations that other actresses had, contrary to Warners' and Friedkin's initial claims, augmented Blair's performance as Regan may have hurt her chances of winning, Kermode suspects. Blair was also dealing with widespread false rumors and press reports that the role had had adverse psychological effects. "They wrote all these articles about how deranged I was and the psychiatric problems I was supposed to have",