She also added that getting to know Siam""s people and its children was the most rewarding: "Before I came here, Siam was just that little white spot to me.All three nominations lost to the Best Picture winning film of the year,Marty (1955).Coincidentally, Tracy lost the Best Actor Oscar to a costar in this film, Ernest Borgnine as a menacing thug, but in an Oscar-winning role as a homely bachelor.Shot on location in the steamy, colorful, dense tropical jungles of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the story""s theme is the futility and insanity of war, and the irony of British pride, viewed through he psychological, confrontational struggle of imperialistic wills between a proud and rigid British and Japanese Colonel.(Everything he purchases is placed on a magazine page that the clerk is reading - an expose about "How Your Money Affects Your Sexual Life!") In the small theatre auditorium, he slumps low in his chair and stares with glazed eyes fixed on the screen (of pornographic sex):Twelve hours of work and I still can""t sleep.