YMMV / Roman Holiday

• Award Snub:
  • The film received ten Academy Award nominations and won three - Best Actress, Story and Costume Design (Black and White). Gregory Peck wasn't nominated for Best Actor.
  • On the other side of things, Audrey Hepburn's win for Best Actress denied Deborah Kerr — who would be nominated six times in her career without a single win — the award for her breathtaking performance as Karen in From Here to Eternity, widely acclaimed as her best performance up until that point.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: It was a nice hit in the Anglosphere out the gate, but the Japanese went absolutely nuts over it. Thousands of girls up and down the country imitated Princess Ann's haircut as a fashion statement, and as related in the Trivia tab, as of 2022 the movie has at least nine different Japanese dubs. That's not counting the manga adaptation, the out-and-out remakes, the Shout-Out's in everything from Magic Kaito to Sailor Moon to Gundam...
• Harsher in Hindsight: Irving Radovich wants to publish photos of the princess, saying, "She's fair game, Joe! It's always open season on princesses." Over forty years later, Princess Diana was killed in Paris after being chased by paparazzi.
• Signature Scene: The Romantic Ride Sharing on a Vespa.
• Tear Jerker: Watching Ann look longingly at Joe at the press conference, knowing that they can never be together after that.
• Values Dissonance:
  • Giving injections to calm a person who is mildly emotional is now considered overly harsh and even harmful.
  • Nowadays, a semiconscious, seemingly intoxicated woman found on a park bench would be taken immediately to the hospital.
  • Ann smoking a cigarette for the first time is obviously supposed to be a rite of passage all adults should have. Instead of just gross.

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