(Hi, I'm Sam Waterston) I earned an Oscar nomination for playing NY Times reporter Sydney Schanberg in this film set in war-torn Cambodia
The Killing Fields, 
1984, is a drama film about the invasion by the Maoist Khmer Rouge ... it was 
directed by Roland Joff, and stars Sam Waterston as Schanberg, Haing S. ... 
Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist covering the civil war in 
Cambodia.