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 LOS ANGELES (AP) - He wasn't nominated for an Oscar for his role as a Native American Marine in "Flags of Our Fathers," but Adam Beach still feels like a winner.
"Just to hear that people were upset that I didn't get nominated really means a lot," he says of critics enthralled by his haunting portrayal of Ira Hayes, one of the Marines seen raising the flag on Iwo Jima in the prize-winning Associated Press photo snapped during the World War II battle.
"I've never had to wait for an award to look at my accomplishments," he says. "I've always had the hearts and smiles of Native American people to tell me, `You've won us.' That's my award."
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