A sickness lies upon that treasure hoard.A sickness which drove your grandfather mad." Balin added: "You""re not yourself.The Thorin I know would not hesitate o go in there." Balin sensed that Thorin would sacrifice Bilbo as a burglar for his own purposes.Smaug continued to stalk Bilbo and revealed that he knew of Thorin Oakenshield""s quest to reclaim Lonely Mountain and acquire the Arkenstone - and then made a dire prediction about he approach of Sauron.As with many of Hitchcock""s films, there were Academy Award nominations, but no Oscars.This film was nominated for three awards: Best Story and Screenplay (Ernest Lehman), Best Color Art Direction/Set Decoration, and Best Film Editing (George Tomasini).Barnes radioed to tell Lorenzo (and Grant) to provide backup support - they quickly arrived to surround the building, but the mercenaries (and Esperanza) escaped on snowmobiles after wiring the building and their equipment to explode with booby-traps.As is true of many of Howard Hawks"" finest films (including he crime filmScarface (1932),Twentieth Century (1934),His Girl Friday (1940),To Have and Have Not (1944), the detective filmThe Big Sleep (1946),Monkey Business (1952), andGentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)), this masterpiece was not nominated for a single Academy Award."Male reporter 3: "Emergency rooms are being overwhelmed with patients showing signs of what""s being dubbed ""the Simian Flu.