Gable's first movie role back at MGM was to portray reluctant leader of mutineers Fletcher Christian, an "Englishman in knickers and a three-cornered hat", one he to be talked into by friend and producer Irving Thalberg, and of which Gable said "I stink in it" after filming. "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935) was a critical and commercial success, receiving eight Academy Award nominations. There were three Best Actor nominations for stars Gable, Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone, and the film won Best Picture, the second of three films in which Gable played a leading role to do so. The film cost $2 million and grossed $4.5 million, making it one of the top moneymakers that decade. It used life-size replicas of the "Bounty" and "Pandora", and was partly filmed in Catalina and French Polynesia.