The heavily-nominated film (with eight nominations) was a multiple-Academy Award winning effort, taking accolades in five categories: Best Director (William Friedkin), Best Actor (Hackman with his first Oscar), Best Adapted Screenplay (Ernest Tidyman), Best Editing (Jerry Greenberg), and Best Picture.]The major themes of the film include the struggle for survival on the primitive, fog-enshrouded, tropical Skull Island between the ardent and energetic filmmakers (led by Robert Armstrong), he hero (Bruce Cabot in a part originally offered to Joel McCrea), he voodoo natives, and the forces of nature (the unique Beast creature); unrequited love and the frustration and repression of violent sexual desires.She quipped about it being a romantic comedy, and he half-joked: "Just because it""s a love story doesn""t mean you can""t have a decapitation or two.Beneath the ties of train tracks, a metal case is pulled from beneath one of the timbers, revealing a case of sardines.When he dozed, four sharp fingers of his new bladed glove poked through the driver""s seat upholstery in front of his crotch, and then Freddy""s entire arm thrust upward and clawed open his chest.