Another classic courtroom drama was also nominated as Best Picture in the same year:12 Angry Men (1957).The camera pulls away from him, shot from behind, before the closing credits.BackgroundManhattan(1979) was an acclaimed, mature, B/W masterpiece enhanced by a George Gershwin score (performed by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta), telling about infidelity, entangling romances and situations, and the comings-and-goings of self-absorbed, mostly-dishonest, glib, intellectual Manhattanites.After he saw the female corpse, he told her: "We""ve gotta get out of here.We have to get where there""s some other people." As the black man searched for food in the kitchen, Barbra noticed dripping blood in the hallway from the corpse above.I am asking for a truce with your personal convictions in an hour of public danger." He speculated that he might not return from the unknown, thereby leaving "the whole future of our civilization" for the two of them to either preserve or destroy.