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- Photojournalist Nick Ut has filed a criminal defamation lawsuit in France against Netflix and the makers of The Stringer.
- The Stringer claims freelancer Nguyen Thanh Nghe took the 1972 The Terror of War photograph, which won Nick Ut a Pulitzer Prize.
- Ut seeks 100,000 euros in damages and says the allegations harmed his reputation.
- The controversy followed the film's January 2025 Sundance premiere, where journalist Gary Knight investigated misattribution claims.
