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Year: 1984 (57th) Academy Awards

Category: Actor in a Supporting Role

Film Title: The Killing Fields

Winner: Haing S. Ngor

Presenter: Linda Hunt

Date & Venue: March 25, 1985; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion


HAING S. NGOR:
This unbelievable, but so is my entire life. I wish to thank all member of Motion Picture Academy for this great honor. I thank David Puttnam, Roland Joffé for giving me this chance to act for the first time in "The Killing Fields." And I share this award to my friend Sam Waterston, Dith Pran, Sydney Schanberg, and also Pat Golden, that casting lady who found me for this role. And I thank Warner Bros. for helping me tell my story to the world, let the world know what happened in my country. And I thank God Buddah that tonight I'm even here. Thank you very much. Thank you.

© Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
[Note: All winners are present except where noted; NOT all winners may have spoken.]

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