Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)No Academy Award nominations.A slightly darker film, the longest-running film of the series, and mostly faithful to its book source.Nine Oscar nominations were awarded to the film, with only one win - Max Steiner""s stirring and Oscar-winning Best Score (Steiner""s third career Oscar).Their charge is intercut with short cuts of German machine gunfire to hold them back and cut them down.The pirates were actually ""undead"" skeletal beings ("The moonlight shows us for what we really are.We are not among the living so we cannot die").While sailing to Isla de Muerta, Will learned that ten years earlier, Captain Jack was formerly he captain of theBlack Pearlwhen Barbossa was the First Mate.