In this paper we study the lower semicontinuity problem for a supremal
functional of the form $F(u,\Omega )= \underset{x\in\Omega}{\rm ess\,sup} f(x,u(x),Du(x))$
with respect to the strong convergence in L∞(Ω),
furnishing a comparison with the analogous theory developed by
Serrin for integrals. A sort of Mazur's lemma for gradients of uniformly
converging sequences is proved.