Filmed in the United States during the end of 1995, Fargo premiered at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, where Joel Coen won the festival's Prix De La Mise En Scène (Best Director Award) and the film was nominated for the Palme D'Or. The film was both a critical and commercial success, earning particular acclaim for the Coens' direction and script and the performances of McDormand, Macy, and Buscemi. Fargo received seven Oscar nominations at the 69th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor for Macy, winning two: Best Actress for McDormand and Best Original Screenplay for the Coens.

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Marge's husband, Norm, tells her the Postal Service has selected his painting of a mallard for a three-cent postage stamp and complains that his friend's painting won the competition for a twenty-nine cent stamp. Marge reminds him that smaller denomination stamps get used to make up the difference between the face value of old stamps and the new cost of first class postage. Norm is reassured, and the couple happily anticipates the birth of their child. Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert both declared Fargo as the best film of 1996, [49] with Ebert later ranking it fourth on his list of the best films of the 1990s. [50] Fargo was added to the National Film Registry by the National Film Preservation Board on December 27, 2006. [7] In 2010, the Independent Film & Television Alliance selected the film as one of its "30 Most Significant Independent Films" of the last 30 years. [51] The Writers Guild of America ranked the film's screenplay the 32nd greatest ever. [52] Accolades [ edit ] Award⁣Cornet, Roth (June 25, 2014). "Fargo: Season 1 Review". IGN. Archived from the original on September 12, 2014.