Christopher Reeve York in his own plane to shoot on location at the American Museum of Natural History. Also, in 1985, DC Comics named Reeve as one of the honorees in the company's 50th-anniversary publication "Fifty Who Made DC Great" for his work on the Superman film series. In 1986, he was still struggling to find scripts that he liked. A script named "Street Smart" had been lying in his house for years, and after re-reading it, he had Cannon Films green-light it. He starred opposite Morgan Freeman, who was nominated for his first Academy Award for the film. The film received
Superman curse days before he was to be married, Reeves was found dead of a gunshot wound at his home with his Luger near him. The death was ruled a suicide, but controversy surrounds the death, as Reeves's fingerprints were never found on the gun, and he had been having an affair with the wife of MGM exec Eddie Mannix. It was Reeves's death that inspired the conspiracy theories and the urban legend of a curse associated with the character. Christopher Reeve played Superman/Clark Kent in the Superman film series, "Superman: The Movie" (1978), "Superman II" (1980), "Superman III" (1983), and ""