(It was met with rave reviews in Europe, and won Best Picture at the Brussels Film Festival).It was completely un-nominated for Academy Awards -- bypassed by the Academy that instead gave Best Picture honors to he frothy, somewhat distasteful musical tale ofGigi (1958)(with a record nine Oscar wins), about a young woman trained to be a courtesan of a wealthy suitor.Under the credits, a conflicted, 19 year-old, vulgar-mouthed, eenaged, self-centered, working-class Italian-American anti-hero from the neighborhood of Bay Ridge in Brooklyn, swaggering Anthony "Tony" Manero (a star-making role for John Travolta), strutted eastward down he sidewalk on Brooklyn""s 86th Street.With a production budget of $200 million, and box-office gross receipts of $373 million (domestic) and almost $784 million (worldwide).One of the company""s advertising campaigns involved placing Bull Signs on outfield fences of ball stadiums, and offering prizes or free products to any ballplayer who hit the sign or knocked out a home run.Superman saved Jimmy and then when the water pressure failed and the plant was imperiled, he flew to Lake Comooga, five miles away, froze the lake""s water with a gust of Ice-breath, and brought the five-inch thick ice cover back to the site of the chemical fire to drop on and extinguish the flames like rain, and cool the threatened vials of acid.