Keep it alive.We have to be greater than what we suffer.My wish for you is to become hope.People need that.And even if we fail, what better way is there to live? As we look around here today at all of the people who helped make us who we are, I know it feels like we""re saying goodbye.The category of Assistant Director wasdiscontinuedafter 1937! The other nominations were for Best Director (Henry Hathaway, his sole career nomination), Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Recording, and Best Art Direction.Dust swirls and golden, billowing napalm flames fill the air.In 1968, debauched, moody, divorced Army Captain Benjamin Willard (Martin Sheen) of US Army Intelligence (505th Batallion, 173rd Airborne), lies in a sleazy, dingy, sepia-toned Saigon hotel room, isolated, alienated, sweat-bathed and recovering from battle fatigue.Clark""s super-sensitive hearing and X-ray vision detected that Ricky""s dog Buster was whining above the unconscious boy in a nearby wheatfield - he had tripped and fallen on a rock near where giant Wheatking threshers were cutting through the wheat with rollers and churning blades.