In full view for the first time, the alien has a rough, brown Naugahyde skin surface, a wide bulbous baby head, huge blue eyes, an extendable neck, elongated fingers, a pear-shaped body, and large webbed feet.Tony Curtis received his first (and only) Oscar nomination as Best Actor, and Sidney Poitier also received a Best Actor nomination (his first of two career nominations), although both lost to David Niven forSeparate Tables.2by the hearth, Laura attends to her embroidery, while brooding, fantasizing and conducting a caring, inner monologue oward her decent-minded husband for the remainder of the film.Charles Laughton, who had won the Best Actor Oscar forThe Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), gave an exaggerated portrayal of the duty-obsessed, cruel and arrogant Captain Bligh - he made the character one of the screen""s most memorable and abusive villains.The film was highlighted by lots of catchy, overtly-sexual songs-and-dances, such as the famousTime Warp("It""s just a jump to the left.