Annal:1982 Festival de Cannes Jury Awards for Feature Films
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Festival de Cannes in the year 1982. For a ranked list of films, try the honor roll.
- 1982 Cannes Palme d’Or
- 1983 BAFTA-Film nominee
- 1983 Golden Globe-Drama nominee
- 1983 Oscar-Picture nominee
- Score: 28.32
The peril facing a lone American amid Third World political turmoil is elegantly communicated in this important film from Costa-Gavras (Z), adapted by the director and Donald Stewart from Thomas Hauser’s nonfiction book. The key to its power onscreen stems from the decision not to center the action merely on the disappearance of Charles Horman (John Shea), but also on the search for him by his father Ed (Jack Lemmon)—and on Ed’s discovery of a son he never knew. The Oscar-winning script flows freely between that search and Charles’s earlier experiences in…
