Tag: The Killing Fields
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The Oscar Winner Whose Death Became a True Crime Story
For his debut film performance in 1984’s historical drama, The Killing Fields, actor and physician Haing S. Ngor took home an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, becoming the first Asian-American to win in the category and an overnight household name in entertainment. Having survived the genocidal horrors that plagued his native Cambodia during the…
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Julian Sands: ‘My worst job? Father Christmas at a department store’
The actor on Derek Jarman, his wife’s right eye and the birthday party he wasn’t invited toBorn in Yorkshire, Sands, 62, studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He had a role in Derek Jarman’s Broken English and went on to appear in The Killing Fields, A Room With A View…
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David Puttnam: data misuse by digital giants “threatens democracy itself”
Fda chairman was delivering his annual keynote address to UK film distributors.Speaking in his annual keynote address as the president of the UK’s Film Distributors’ Association (Fda), David Puttnam has warned Us-based online giants such as Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google must take action to tackle the misuse of users’ data.The revered UK producer…