The film brought eight Academy Award nominations and won six of them - none of which were for acting: Best Picture (Arthur Freed, producer), Best Story and Screenplay (Alan Jay Lerner), Best Color Cinematography, Best Color Art Direction/Set Decoration, Best Musical Score, and Best Color Costume Design.SCORPIO[The character of Scorpio was based on the real Zodiac Killer, a menacing serial killer to the city in the late 60s who also wrote handwritten letters.g., authentic-looking dogfights).It was the costliest film ever made untilGone With the Wind (1939)beat its record by $1 million.Plot SynopsisIt is the contrasting story of two brothers (one good and one bad), Roy (James Hall) and Monte Rutledge (Ben Lyon) respectively, who leave Oxford and join in the British Royal Flying Corps at the beginning of World War I.Davis confessed: "I don't want hose weapons in this neighborhood" - but claimed he did not know anything "about the guy with the wings.She extended her hand toward him - he reciprocated and their hands and fingersactuallytouched, as they gazed into each other's eyes.