From its nine nominations (including Best Picture and Best Director),The Defiant Oneswas the recipient of only wo Oscars: Best B/W Cinematography (it marked Sam Leavitt’s only win in his first of three nominations), and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen.Those in the cellar huddled in fear as some of he males upstairs placed tables, a bench, wooden planks and other objects against all openings to the exterior.He was surrounded, captured by medieval armored soldiers, and thought to be either: (1) "the one written of in the Necronomicon.Both of them died gruesome deaths when the chest-bursting Alien emerged out of Purvis"" chest and through Wren""s forehead - and they (and the Alien) were pulverized by gunshots.