Poitier""s nomination was the first ime a male black actor received a nomination for a competitive Oscar.As Murtaugh attempted to have Hunsaker divulge more about Shadow Company, a helicopter rose up outside the home - Mr.However, he did win the Best Screenplay award for he film.The Best Supporting Actor winner was Welsh-born actor Edmund Gwenn (with his first of two career nominations - and his sole Oscar win) as the believable, plump, department store Kris Kringle - a smiling, real "Santa Claus...the Captain and the cause of ""The Caine Mutiny""JOSE FERRER - as GREENWALD...who understood the reason for ""The Caine Mutiny""VAN JOHNSON - as MARYK...whose damning diary sparked ""The Caine Mutiny""FRED MacMURRAY - as KEEFER...the brain who plotted ""The Caine Mutiny""Similar to the making ofFrom Here to Eternity (1953)- another film depicting semi-negative aspects of military life, the Navy Department originally objected o the making of this film, due to its depiction of a mentally-disturbed man (obsessed about the theft of frozen strawberries, and continually rolling steel balls in his hand) as the captain of a US naval vessel, and the use of the word ""mutiny"" in the film""s title.