As with many of Hitchcock's films, there were Academy Award nominations, but no Oscars.This film was nominated for three awards: Best Story and Screenplay (Ernest Lehman), Best Color Art Direction/Set Decoration, and Best Film Editing (George Tomasini).In the voice of a young boy, he cried out: "Mommy, don't let me drown.Mommy!"The killer's demise caused him to revert back to his normal childhood self, a miraculous transformation, when the oxic waste subsided."After receiving a postage-due, forwarded letter from France from his "American gal" from Mineola, Long Island, Eddie and his cab-driver friend drive out to her house to meet the woman he has never met.The exterior of a Chicago steel mill, and a view of junk pickers (one of whom is Abby) searching through industrial scrap.Taylor's introduction concludes with the figure of Leopold Stokowski moving center stage to mount the podium and call attention with his hands to orchestral members.