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Actor in a Supporting Role
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British Academy of Film & Television Arts
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Golden Globe
Best Performance By an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
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Screen Actors Guild Awards
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
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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.
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Heath Ledger won an Oscar for his performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight in 2009, posthumously accepted by his family. He also won several other awards for his roles in Brokeback Mountain, Candy, and The Patriot. See his full list of awards and nominations on IMDb.
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For his performance in The Dark Knight, Ledger posthumously won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (becoming the fourth-youngest winner of the award) which his family accepted on his behalf, as well as numerous other posthumous awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, which Nolan accepted for him.
IMDb profile of Heath Ledger, the late Australian actor who starred in films such as Brokeback Mountain and The Dark Knight. Learn about his life, career, awards, and death from this comprehensive source.
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Feb 25, 2017 · Actor is honored with the Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Dark Knight. By Kendall Fisher Feb 25, 2017 4:00 AM Tags. Moviestore/Shutterstock. Heath Ledger made his mark on the world...
The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Heath Ledger as the Joker. Ledger won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor posthumously for his performance, as well as several other awards and nominations.