Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence), but had been in a coma ever since.With the tagline: "Ten Years Ago HE Changed The Face Of Halloween.Tonight HE""S BACK!"With a production budget of approximately $5 million, and box-office gross revenues of $17.However, it was awarded the Palme D""Or (the top prize) at the Cannes Film Festival.[Note: In 2001, twenty-two years after its original release, a longer, expanded and restored version of the film - at hree hours and about 20 minutes - was released and titledApocalypse Now Redux.It garnered seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Walter Huston, recreating his earlier stage role, who should have won the Oscar with his sensitive portrayal against winner Paul Muni forThe Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)), Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Maria Ouspenskaya, reprising her role from the earlier stage production, and in her film debut), and Best Sound Recording, and won only one Oscar for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration.During ceremonies to honor the fallen Comm.Loeb, Mayor Anthony Garcia (Nestor Carbonell) was the Joker""s next target, but the murder plot was thwarted by Batman.