clift's last nomination for an academy award was for best supporting actor for his role in "judgment at nuremberg" (1961), a 12-minute supporting part. he played a developmentally disabled man who had been a victim of the nazi sterilisation programme testifying at the nuremberg trials. the film's director, stanley kramer, later wrote in his memoirs that clift – by this stage a wreck – struggled to remember his lines even for this one scene: