At the 2012 Golden Globe ceremony , when Dinklage won the award for Best Supporting Actor – Series , Miniseries or Television Film , he told the audience that he had been thinking about " a gentleman , his name is Martin Henderson , " and suggested that they Google his name . Henderson was a man with dwarfism from Somerset , England , who was badly injured after being tossed by a rugby fan in a bar . Henderson made a cameo as a goblin in two Harry Potter films . The speech by Dinklage brought media and public attention to the act of dwarf-tossing with Henderson 's name being trended worldwide on social media . Henderson eventually died of his injuries in 2016 , 5 years after the incident . Dinklage turned down offers from talk shows to discuss the topic . He later explained that 20 years earlier he might have accepted these offers but that he 's a " little bit more at peace with things now and I — said what I wanted to say . I have a friend who says the world does n't need another angry dwarf . " According to the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes , Dinklage 's most critically acclaimed films are '' Living in Oblivion '' ( 1995 ) , '' The Station Agent '' ( 2003 ) , '' Lassie '' ( 2005 ) , '' X-Men : Days of Future Past '' ( 2014 ) , and '' Three Billboards Outside Ebbing , Missouri '' ( 2017 ) . Dinklage won a Golden Globe Award for his performance in '' Game of Thrones '' . He has also won three Primetime Emmy Awards : Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for the same role . Dinklage has been nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor each year from 2013 to 2017 . He has also been nominated for Critics ' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor three times , in 2012 , 2016 and 2017 . , Dinklage has won twelve awards from 58 nominations . He has been nominated for seven Primetime Emmy Awards and 14 Screen Actor Guild Awards , winning three Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award
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