No Academy Award nominations.The main religious artifact or icon: The Mitchell-Hedges crystalline skull, revealed to be the skull of an ancient inter-dimensional alien - possibly an ancient alien "supercomputer" providing ultimate knowledge.Powers (Harry Davenport), theGlobe""seditor-in-chief.It was dated August 19, 1939 - auspiciously just about two weeks before Germany""s unannounced invasion and occupation of Poland:According to high official, it is believed absolutely no chance of war this year account of late crops.But at some point during the winter, he must have suffered some kind of a complete mental breakdown.He ran amuck, and uh, killed his family with an axe.Stacked ""em neatly in one of the rooms of the West Wing, and uh, then he, uh, he put, uh, both barrels of a shotgun in his mouth.)- akaIncident at Owl Creek- its title, its lighting and noirish atmosphere, and its nihilistic theme about the wrongful hanging of an innocent man.