"Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)With a production budget of $125 million, and box-office gross receipts of $215.4 million (domestic) and $546.4 million (worldwide).This was the highest grossing film of the series, though not the most profitable (the first brought in $457 million worldwide with an $80 million budget).It""s got a ritual significance." Lowenstein, proudly proclaiming himself as "an essential worker for Oskar Schindler," is plucked from the group by a few SS, declared "twice as useless" and inefficient, led a short distance away, and shot point-blank in the head.Tierney lost to a deserving Joan Crawford for her comeback role inMildred Pierce (1945).The other two nominations were for Best Sound Recording and Best Color Art Direction/Interior Decoration..." He had taped steak knives to his fingers to make a Freddy claw-hand, and he struck at her with the blades.