A nomination for Beach?

Adam Beach Scores Anew in `Wounded Knee'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 Second World War 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."Dick Wolf on his historical manipulations:Although a historical character, Eastman was not the centrepiece of the book as he is in the film.

"It was a dramatic necessity," says executive producer Dick Wolf, "to have somebody who was a synthesis of many different paths and characters. Once we found the character, it was finding an actor."Wolf on a possible nomination for Beach:Wolf expects there will be more in store for Beach after "Wounded Knee" airs.

"I will be stunned, baffled and upset," he says, "if he isn't nominated (for), and wins, an Emmy."