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.The charming film about clashing ideologies (Soviet communism vs.capitalism) begins with Garbo portrayed at first as a humorless, cold, curt, deadpan, and seriously-austere Russian envoy (in a parody of her own stiff onscreen image), who soon melts and is transformed and softened by Parisian love (and a persuasive playboy Count) into a frivolous, romantic figure and converted Communist."Meanwhile, onboard theHMS Providence, Gibbs instructed Captain Barbossa about their proper direction toward the Fountain, just as three Spanish galleons were sailing towards them - but then passed by without firing..." -- Hamilton finished his sentence: "A singularity can be created." Swanwick added: "Like a black hole." A black hole would warp the Black Zero and suck its occupants back into the Phantom Zone.The plan was two-fold:to fly a C-17 Guardian (piloted by Col.Hardy with Dr.Hamilton and Lois onboard) surrounded by fighter jets to Metropolis, and drop the space-pod from the C-17 onto the Black Zero hovering over the city, to cause the black hole effectto have Superman fly to the Indian Ocean to destroy the Terraforming GeneratorMeanwhile, Zod left his command to Faora-Ul, while he headed for the Arctic scout ship that had orginally signaled them ("to secure the Genesis Chamber and pay my respects o an old friend").Crawford was asking him to return to his job, to catch the killer who was working on a "lunar cycle" - with a little more than 3 weeks until the next potential murder during a full moon.