It won eight Academy Awards including: Best Picture and Director (Kazan), Best Story and Screenplay (Schulberg), Best Actor (Brando), Best Supporting Actress (Saint in her film debut), Best B/W Cinematography (Boris Kaufman), Best B/W Art Direction-Set Decoration (Richard Day), and Best Film Editing (Gene Milford).However, her criticisms were more generally directed toward America as a whole, although he film didn""t downplay its depiction of Texans as crude, ignorant, uneducated, and bigoted.In the film""s poignant closing with Nellie, Eva honestly expressed her loneliness, her slight fear and emptiness, and her loss of love.He showed her a defensive helmet that the Russians had constructed for him - to prevent telepathic powers from "getting into his head.]Dimitri Tiomkin""s original musical score, including he hauntingMerry Widowwaltz, adds a degree of mystery to he tale about Uncle Charlie, a psychotic killer whose namesake niece, an adoring teenager-heroine named Charlie, is emotionally excited by the arrival of her worldly uncle, but her opinion of him slowly changes as she probes into his evil, murderous secrets - and her life becomes endangered.