Because the film was part of the MCU, it could incorporate the characters of Tony Stark / Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.When she bends down o place dishes in the dishwasher, one of Mike""s friends extends his finger toward her rear - Mike yells for him to stop.With grand-standing tactics and Commie-baiting witch-hunting delivered from the audience, ""Joe McCarthy-ish"" Senator Iselin stands - in the background - and delivers bombastic, arbitrary rantings about the Secretary""s conclusions, as his manipulative, domineering wife in the foreground - who has fed her words into her puppet husband and is the power behind the scenes - watches his diminutive image on a live TV monitor next to her [the same events are simultaneously displayed from different perspectives]." Robbins was the only Best Director Oscar winner to win for the only film he ever directed.Robert Wise won his second directorial Oscar forThe Sound of Music (1965).Natalie Wood was un-nominated forWest Side Story, but she was competing for a Best Actress Oscar (that she lost to Sophia Loren forTwo Women) for her role inSpendor in the Grass (1961).The film, one of the top ten box-office hits of its year, was honored with six major Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Paul Newman with his first Oscar nomination), Best Actress (Elizabeth Taylor with her second of four consecutive nominations), Best Director (Richard Brooks, who had replaced George Cukor as the film""s original directorial choice), Best Adapted Screenplay (Richard Brooks and James Poe), and Best Cinematography (William H.