"The catchy, haunting, piano-plinking score won the Best Original Score Oscar (the film""s sole award) for Francis Lai from its seven Academy Awards nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor (Ryan O""Neal), Best Supporting Actor (John Marley), Best Actress (Ali MacGraw), Best Director (Arthur Hiller), and Best Original Story and Screenplay (Erich Segal).And a 16-year-old boy had beaten a younger child while wearing Alex""s uniform of white overalls, black bowler hat and combat boots.Dolarhyde told him that he was "atoning" for what he had published, lies about how the Tooth Fairy was "a vicious, perverted sexual failure." One attentive, smart female student, Sara Moyer (Bianca Kajlich) was shown twirling her hair, and answered his question about "the shadow.