Best Supporting Actors Of The Last 25 Years

Also Nominated: Adolph Caesar, John Malkovich, Noriyuki Pat Morita, Ralph Richardson

Possibly the most deserved award in the history of the Academy, Haing S. Ngor was no actor when he took the part of real-life Khmer Rouge regime survivor, Dith Pran. He was perfectly suited to the part because he too was a survivor of a regime that murdered a 1.5m people.

Ngor was tragically murdered in 1996 when he apparenly refused to give a thief the locket that hung around his neck - it was his late wife's, who died while a prisoner of the Khmer Rouge.

When The Killing Fields was released, Ngor told a reporter from the New York Times; "If I die from now on, okay. This film will go on for another hundred years."