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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 ...
Oscar winner “There aren’t enough words to express my love and my gratitude,” a 24-year-old Cara said in her Oscar acceptance speech , where she also credited “Fame” director Alan Parker ...
Two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson, who mixed acting with politics, dies at 87 ... An earlier version of this story gave incorrect dates for Jackson's Academy Award victories. They were in 1971 ...
He was married to Mary McKay from 1932 until her death on February 17, 1962. In 1963, Schildkraut married Leonora Rogers, [18] who survived him. [19] For his contributions to the motion picture industry, Schildkraut has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6780 Hollywood Boulevard. [20] He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. [21]
Mark Gustafson (September 19, 1959 – February 1, 2024) was an American animator and film director, best known for co-directing Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022), [1] which won Best Animated Feature at the 95th Academy Awards.
Joseph Brooks (born Joseph Kaplan [1]; March 11, 1938 – May 22, 2011), [2] was an American songwriter, composer and filmmaker. He was a successful author of commercial jingles during the 1960’s, before pivoting to a filmmaking career.