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Title: Haing Ngor wins Oscar
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Knudsen, Anne
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1985
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated March 26, 1985 reads, "Cambodian refugee and non-actor Dr. Haing S. Ngor initially raised his Oscar in joy, then backstage movingly recalled his own tortures." Ngor won the Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Dith Pran in 'The Killing Fields' at the 57th Academy Awards were held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on March 25, 1985.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00082523
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b015_f3_i47
CARL0000081952
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25236
Subject: Ngor, Haing--Awards
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Academy Awards (Motion pictures)
Motion picture actors and actresses--Awards--United States
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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