Heath Ledger Wins Best Supporting Actor Oscar
There’s a lot of news coming out the Oscars this year, but I think that this particular story is especially close to people’s hearts. It’s close to mine, anyway. Heath Ledger won his only Oscar last night, posthumously, for his role as the Joker in Batman: The Dark Knight.
His sister, Kate, accepted the award for him. The statuette will not go into trust for his daughter Matilda to inherit when she turns 18. When someone gets an Oscar after his death, it’s often a referendum of his whole career, and in this case, that’s all right. Ledger was a very good actor, though he often had parts that didn’t showcase his talents, especially in his early teen-rebel days. But he should have won something for Brokeback Mountain, and I’m satisfied to see him get something for both an indivudual performance and the accumulation of a career that was ultimately far too short.
