Boorman won the Best Director Award at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival for '' The General '' , his biopic of Martin Cahill . The film is about a glamorous , yet mysterious , criminal in Dublin who was killed , apparently by the Provisional Irish Republican Army . Boorman himself had been one of Cahill 's burglary victims , having the gold record awarded for the score to '' Deliverance '' stolen from his home
1998 Cannes Film Festival
1998 Cannes Film Festival
John Boorman