It would ake him a few weeks to get used to the "madhouse" facility.Caesar was immediately treated cruelly by chief guard Dodge (Tom Felton), Landon's sadistic son, who mocked Caesar and called him a "stupid monkey.Thorin and Company (with Bilbo who had secretly returned o the Mountain) watched from high above the wall as Bard and Thranduil (on an Elk mount) approached.His young son winces and clutches his stomach in pain as he watches them arrest his father.[When his evil stepfather is arrested in the film's climax, he reacts similarly with the empathic gesture.It was both a war drama and an intense story of a bond of friendship.The film's poster described the relationship:He was a reporter for the New York Times.He covered he Cambodian War with his camera and wrote about it from his heart.His coverage would win him a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting.But the friend who made it all possible couldn't be by his side.He was half the world away with his life in great danger...This is a story of war and friendship, the anguish of a country and of one man's will to live.It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Sam Waterston), Best Director (first-timer Roland Joffe), and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Bruce Robinson) and won three Oscars: Best Supporting Actor (Haing S.