The 1933 film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture; it has some scenes that would have been censored out a few years later. The 1945 film won an Academy Award, for Best Song, for It Might As Well be Spring by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. State Fair was their only musical written expressly for the screen. Jeanne Crain's singing voice was dubbed by Louanne Hogan.