Top cast:Lottie Pickford,Gladys Egan,Edward Dillon
Director:Antonio Cuesta&Angel García Cardona
Genre:Western
Region:Iraq
Year:2008
Storyline:It was nominated for four Academy Awards (with four wins): Best Film Editing, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, Best Sound Editing...The Emeralds claimed it.We shut 'em out.The Hawks, remember, they tried to take it away, and we knocked 'em down to the cellar.Members: Yeah, but these PRs are different.They multiply.They keep comin'.Like cockroaches.Close the windows.Shut the doors.They're eatin' our food.They're breathin' all the air.The end to free enterprise...Riff: Hey, you heard what that Lieutenant Schrank said, eh? We gotta make nice with 'em Puerto Ricans or else.]It was a surprise that the nominated director Norman Jewison failed to take home the Best Director Oscar for the celebrated, seminal late 1960s film - instead Mike Nichols won the award (presumably because he had failed to win as Best Director he previous year forWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966))."Klaatu: "Apparently I'm not as cynical about Earth's people as you are."Harley: "I've been dealing in Earth's politics a good deal longer han you have."Next Day at the Spaceship Landing Area: Early 2 AM Saturday MorningBack at the spaceship at 2 am, engineers and metallurgical experts found both Gort (standing immobile at a silent vigil) and the vessel "impregnable" - the two were constructed out of the same "stuff.She is a mercenary counterspy from the continent [not identified, but presumably Nazi Germany] working with the British against her own country.