http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090223/ap_en_ot/oscars
Heath Ledger won the supporting-actor Academy Award on Sunday for his demented reinvention of Batman villain the Joker in "The Dark Knight," becoming only the second actor to win an Oscar posthumously.
Very awesome. Glad to see this happen. It was an amazing portrayal.
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But I'm also very excited that Slumdog Millionaire won Best Picture (Along with many other awards) because that movie is fucking AMAZING. Anyone else seen it? Truly deserved to win.
Overall, I thought tonight's Oscars were great! They were much better this year than the past few. And while I love Jon Stewart, Hugh did a great job.
I loved how they presented the actor/actresses oscars, bringing out 5 previous winners, each talking about an individual nominee and WHY s/he was nominated. I thought that was very classy, and very cool, and much better than the usual "and the nominees are."
I also really like how they handled the musical numbers tonight. Usually they're the time when everyone gets up and goes to the bathroom. Tonight, though 2 were from the same movie, the way they blended the 3 nominees together, as well as having a more lively stage show for them, made the whole presentation much more bearable.
I had kinda expected The Wrestler to pick something up.
And Heath Ledger did a great job in Dark Knight!
he did the best joker ever.
Heath winning was no big surprise, but well deserved.
I told him fuck death, fuck the role of the joker, That performance might just be the best performance by an actor EVER, in the history of cinema.
If he didn't win, I'm sure everyone would smell something fishy.
Good for Slumdog on sweeping pretty much every other category. Fantastic film.
His Joker was the first time I've been to a cinema and felt scared/nervous of/by a character...
The Burtman movies are both really freakin' bad. Nicholson did a good job in that movie but he was nowhere near Ledger's performance. He certainly didn't have the quality of script to work with, and Nicholson has become a much better actor in his later years than he was then, and I think you may be viewing it through rose-colored glasses a bit. Nicholson's Joker is good, but never really captured the mentally damaged feeling that Ledger did.