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Golden Globe
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Screen Actors Guild Awards
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His wins include an Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor. Ledger also won the Best Actor International Award at the 2008 AFI Awards ceremony, for which he became the first actor to win an award posthumously.
Ledger is the only actor to have won an award in this category after death. 2006 Nominee Oscar. Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role. Brokeback Mountain. Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA. 2009 Winner Saturn Award. Best Supporting Actor. The Dark Knight. Posthumously. Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards.
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- January 22, 2008
Awards. Full list. Signature. Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian actor. After playing roles in several Australian television and film productions during the 1990s, he moved to the United States in 1998 to further develop his film career.
Ledger received more than thirty posthumous accolades for his critically acclaimed performance as the Joker, the psychopathic clown prince of crime, in the film, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, a Best Actor International Award at the 2008 Australian Film Institute Awards (for which he is the second actor to win an acting ...
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Feb 25, 2017 · The Biggest Oscar Moments of All Time: Heath Ledger Wins Posthumous Academy Award Following His Tragic Death. Actor is honored with the Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Dark Knight....
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Apr 3, 2014 · Ledger received "Best Actor of 2005" awards from both the New York Film Critics Circle and the San Francisco Film Critics Circle for his performance in Brokeback Mountain.
Academy Awards, USA. 2009 Winner Oscar. Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. Heath Ledger. Posthumously. The award was accepted by his father, mother and sister. Ledger is the only actor to have won an award in this category after death. 2009 Nominee Oscar.