The young Australian actor Heath Ledger to play the Joker in the latest Batman movie installment, The Dark Knight, earned a nomination for Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the superhero movie overcast.
La Academy announced the nomination along with all other nominations, but the distinction for Ledger (which is almost impossible not to win) is significant for his death, exactly one year ago, when he lost his life over a cocktail of sleeping pills.
After it was released The Dark Knight, a movie that beat box office records in the United States and all over the world, the press, unanimously, automatically nominated Heath Ledger for his brilliant interpretation of Joker, that psychotic murderer that Batman faces in the film.
To win it, Ledger would become the first actor to win a since Oscar posthumous Peter Finch, another Australian, became the prized statuette in 1976, for the film «Network«.
The field colleagues of Ledger will Robert Downey Jr, for "Tropic Thunder"; Josh Brolin, for "Milk"; Philip Seymour Hoffman, for "Doubt" and Michael Shannon, for "Revolutionary Road".