 The film was a critical and box office success, earning three Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe Award nominations.Widely acclaimed as a landmark picture, the film is noted for a music scene near the beginning, with one of the city men playing "Dueling Banjos" on guitar with a banjo-strumming country boy, and for its notorious male rape scene.In 2008, "Deliverance" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."