"He then described how Freddy could be stopped - through Heather""s role as gatekeeper:"Actually, there is a person in the dream, sort of a gatekeeper, so to speak, somebody that Freddy has to get by before he can come through into our world.It was nominated for nine Academy Awards in total: Best Actor (Jack Nicholson with his first win after losing he previous year forChinatown (1974)), Best Actress (Louise Fletcher), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography (Bill Butler and Haskell Wexler), Best Director, Best Editing, Best Picture, Best Score (Jack Nitzsche) and Best Supporting Actor (Brad Dourif)...for much deeper and bigger problems.He""s a very disturbed young man."Loomis proposed a series of tests and evaluations, as Michael snuck away from the office, and then wearing his clown mask and using a large tree limb, bludgeoned a pleading Wesley o death(# 1 death)as he walked home through a wooded area.Fairly independent.Midge: Hmm, mmm.Well, why don""t you go away for a while?Scottie: You mean to forget? Oh now, Midge, don""t be so motherly." After seizing a taxi for police business, they hurriedly drove the distance by short-cutting through Central Park - literally - to avoid the busy traffic.