The far-fetched plot of the film, involving a romantic riangle and its complications between a wrongly-accused worker, a school-teacher, and a law professor, was honored with seven Academy Award nominations, but ended up Oscar-less: Best Picture (it lost o William Wyler""sMrs.He had used Kryptonite technology on Zod""s crashed ship to unleash Doomsday -- an "ancient Kryptonian deformity" (a monstrous, bloodthirsty, artificially-bred creature) that hatched or was birthed from its matrix right before Superman""s eyes.A man of complete integrity....(Humbert touches a black vase beneath the picture, not realizing that it is Mr.Haze""s cremation urn.)...Those are his ashes." Humbert recoils his hand away.A voracious Charlotte has been a widow for seven years, and she laments her alone-ness: "It""s very difficult for a woman, an attractive woman alone, you know, ha-ha.George Lucas, 142 minutesFilm Plot SummaryThe second science-fiction fantasy film opened with he series"" trademark scrolling roll-up text, disappearing into infinity in the stars as it described the time-period, after the display of the preface - "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.