How Green Was My Valley/YMMV

• Award Snub: Some still persist in calling it "that mediocre film that stole the award from Citizen Kane and The Maltese Falcon.
  • That's not all. Other nominees that year (1941) included Sergeant York, The Little Foxes, Suspicion, and Here Comes Mr Jordan. It seemed to have been a pretty good year for movies...
• Never Live It Down: The movie's real merits have been obscured by the fact that most people remember it as "the movie that won over Citizen Kane."
  • Some irony is to be had that Orson Welles basically considered John Ford the best director ever. While Welles was probably perfectly understanding of Ford winning over him (Grapes of Wrath was considered the best American movie for many years- until critics started giving Citizen Kane that merit), try justifying that to modern audiences.