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http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbconeThe late Heath Ledger is named best supporting actor for playing The Joker in The Dark Knight.
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BAFTA 2009 Award Speeches: Heath Ledger, Mickey Rourke, Danny Boyle and Slumdog Millionaire
/Film —
BBC has put a bunch of the acceptance speeches from the 2009 British Academy Film Awards on YouTube. I’ve included some of the highlights after the jump.
Heath Ledger wins Best Supporting Actor
Mickey Rourke wins Best Actor
Slumdog Millionaire wins Best Film
Danny Boyle wins Best Director
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Two More Wins for The Dark Knight
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The Dark Knight was a winner on Sunday both across the pond and Stateside.
At the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards (the BAFTAs), Heath Ledger was posthumously awarded the Supporting Actor prize. You can watch producer Charles Roven accept the award on behalf of Heath using the player below:
Also, at the 2009 Grammy Awards tonight, James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer received Best Score Soundtrack for the film.
BAFTA Winners
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All the BAFTA Winners (click to enlarge) For such a randomly more-often-than-not surprising award body, the staleness of the awards race this year has rubbed off onto the BAFTAs too. I’m pretty sure there will be a whole lot of correlating going on between the BAFTA winners and the Oscar winners later this month, as is anyone else. One thing this awards season has done that I could say holds any value in my own life is that its making rekindle the idea I once had about being an actor and/or a filmmaker and/or a screenwriter (lol, whatever, right?). Unfortunately, I was unable to watch the show live as I have for many, many years in the past thanks to a Geography test, but ...
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slashfilm.com 11/23/2008 —
Warner Bros has publicly begun its push with this Variety advertisement for Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight for a Best Supporting Actor nomination. Academy Award ballots are mailed on December 26th, polls close on January 12th, and the ...
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The Associated Press: And the Oscar goes to Matilda if Ledger wins
google.com 2/19/2009 — 19 hours ago BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) If Heath Ledger is named best supporting actor at Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony, his daughter, 3-year-old Matilda Rose Ledger, will become the owner of the Oscar statuette. But it won't really be hers until ...
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filmexperience.blogspot.com 4/4/2009 — Heath Ledger would have turned 30 today. We lost him so quickly. [sad now] * It occurred to me recently that I still hadn't seen all of his work. I wasn't a convert to his gifts until Monster's Ball (2001) so I missed a few performances ...
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incontention.com 10/14/2008 — Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight Add another one to the list. It looks like Thelma Adams has joined Pete Howell in predicting Heath Ledger for a lead actor nomination in WB’s “The Dark Knight.” We first mentioned this idea in back in June, before the ...