Peter""s vengefulness increased when a spidery-black symbiote (from an alien meteorite) bonded with Spider-Man""s costume during sleep, making it black and imbuing his personality with a more brash, dangerous and aggressive nature (by amplifying "characteristics of its host, especially aggression").Peter admitted that he had an on and off relationship ("It""s complicated") with a girl named Gwen Stacy, a work-study employee at Oscorp.It wasn""t nominated for either Best Picture (won by the short, unassuming romantic dramaMarty (1955)) or Best Director for Nicholas Ray.He promised, while gloating: "It""ll do anything you tell me to tell it to do for you...If anyone attacks this machine or anything, the computer counter-attacks it.I mean, it finds their weaknesses and wipes them out." Everything went according to plan, except that one tanker in the Atlantic, theBritish Reliance, stubbornly sailed toward Metropolis ("the wrong way").Inside the van with tinted windows, the undercover group""s command center, Harry""s assistant Stanley (John Cazale in only his second film) is seated at a workbench over a row of reel-to-reel ape recorders - monitoring the couple""s transmitted conversation from two opposing positions - one next to the CITY PARIS sign and another with a parabolic reflector from an open office window.