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Gibson and Penn were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Penn was nominated as Best Director, and both Bancroft (portraying Sullivan) and Duke (portraying Keller) won the Academy Award for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively.
The Miracle Worker has been much referenced and parodied in popular culture. In the 2006 movie Clerks II, the two lead characters argue because one of them has confused Helen Keller with Anne Frank. The Summer Play Festival presented Esther Demsack in 2008, a comedy about a boy, Everette Brewster, and his governess. The comedy culminates in a parodic version of The Miracle Worker.