sentences:  He was in "The United States Steel Hour".Scott earned his first Academy Award nomination for his performance in Otto Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder" (1959); later that year he appeared on Broadway in "The Andersonville Trial" by Saul Levitt directed by Jose Ferrer, winning critical acclaim for his portrayal of the prosecutor.This was based on the military trial of the commandant of the infamous Civil War prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia.