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Haing Somnang Ngor (Khmer: ហាំង សំណាង ង៉ោ; March 22, 1940 – February 25, 1996) was a Cambodian-born American actor.He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Cambodian-American journalist Dith Pran in the biographical drama film The Killing Fields (1984).
The list does not include people who were retrospectively honoured with an Academy Award and were dead at the time the Academy made the decision to make the retrospective award. For example: in 1993, seventeen years after his death, Dalton Trumbo was retrospectively awarded the 1953 Oscar for Academy Award for Best Story for Roman Holiday.
Many of those excluded were nominated writers: Irving Brecher – 1944 Writing (Screenplay) – Meet Me in St. Louis, [17] Malvin Wald – 1948 Writing (Motion Picture Story) – The Naked City, [18] Oscar Brodney – 1954 Writing (Story and Screenplay) – The Glenn Miller Story, Fred Haines – 1967 Writing (Screenplay based on material from ...
Gone but not forgotten. The 2024 Oscars took time during the show's gala ceremony to honor some of the beloved entertainment icons who died over the last year.Andrea Bocelli and son Matteo Bocelli ...
Glenda Jackson, a two-time Academy Award-winning performer who had a second career in politics as a British lawmaker before an acclaimed late-life return to stage and screen, has died at age 87.
[79] Her appearance prompted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to rule out future proxy acceptance of Academy Awards. (Oscars for winners unable to accept in person are now accepted on their behalf by the presenters.) [80] After giving the speech, Littlefeather spent two days in Los Angeles before returning to San Francisco. [81]
The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. [12] Since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies, except for 2021, have ended with the Academy Award for Best Picture. Traditionally, the previous year's winners for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor present the awards for Best Actress and Best ...
Two Distant Strangers is a 2020 American short film written by Travon Free and directed by Free and Martin Desmond Roe. [2] [3] The film examines the deaths of Black Americans during encounters with police through the eyes of a character trapped in a time loop that keeps ending in his death.