The compelling and subversive story of lustful passion and jealousy was old through intense imagery and charged plot threads or themes (asceticism vs.Another TV news broadcast announced SPIDER-MAN RATINGS UP: "Online polls show a sudden uptick in public sentiment in favor of the web-crawler.(Later, she is usually portrayed in a dazzling white angelic costume during revivals.) Both are charmed with each other, as she compliments him: "You""re amusing and you smell like a real man.Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)Nominated for one Academy Award (with no win): Best Art Direction.With a production budget of $150 million, and gross revenue of $290 million (domestic) and almost $896 million (worldwide).The man - soon identified as the protagonist - is Harry Caul (Gene Hackman), a bespectacled, slightly balding, mustached, mid-forties leader of a professional team of snoopers-for-hire who are monitoring something in the park.