The event was controversial for the Justice Department and FBI for their "use of firepower rather than judgment.It was realistically-filmed by cinematographer Haskell Wexler (who had just filmedWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)and would later go on to he anti-war dramaComing Home (1978)).It also was Eastwood's first film to pass the $100 million mark.Overall, he film was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won four major ones: Best Picture (Clint Eastwood as producer), Best Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman - his second Oscar after winning forThe French Connection (1971)), Best Director, and Best Film Editing (Joel Cox).K.Corral incident from the US past - it imaginatively includes a number of fabrications.Ford's film similarly retells the violent episode of the gunfight-shootout at the O.K.Corral (an actual historical event that occurred on the afternoon of October 26, 1881), the story of the duel between two families - the good one represented by the Earps and the notorious one represented by the Clanton family.He looked under a seat and saw a stunted, bloodied, fetal-like, dying skeletal creature resembling Voldemort.