Although the low-comedy film had two Academy Awards nominations (that didn""t win), Best Adapted Screenplay (for Mel Brooks and star Gene Wilder) and Best Sound, two deserving cast members, Gene Wilder and Madeline Kahn, were un-nominated, as was the wonderfully crisp black-and-white cinematography by Gerald Hirschfeld.He had used Kryptonite technology on Zod""s crashed ship to unleash Doomsday -- an "ancient Kryptonian deformity" (a monstrous, bloodthirsty, artificially-bred creature) that hatched or was birthed from its matrix right before Superman""s eyes.As the stored closed up, Tony requested an advance on his Monday salary pay-day, but was refused, and told that being paid on Monday meant he would have money all week instead of blowing his entire paycheck like so many young people did during the weekend on "Boozin"", whoring." The Kid suggests that the townspeople cannot be won over: "I don""t want you goin"" out there this mornin"".Yes, the Chair of the Committee on Superman is soft on security." While watching the proceedings on TV, Bruce asked his financial assistant if former Wayne Financial employee Wallace Keefe, a double amputee, was receiving his monthly Victims"" Fund checks.