One year to the day after his death, Heath Ledger is an Oscar nominee again. The late actor has been nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 81st Academy Awards for his role as the Joker in “The ...

Heath Ledger will now forever be known as an Oscar winner. Ledger won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as The Joker in "The Dark Knight." It is the first Oscar for the late ...

Burton introduced an even darker edge to his Penguin villain in the follow-up, Batman Returns, which was closer to Heath ...

Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker in 2008's "The Dark Knight" was so monumental that it will likely be the standard of comparison for every comic-book villain performance for the foreseeable ...

While Heath Ledger won a posthumous Oscar for his iconic role as the Joker in "The Dark Knight," the late star had one more movie in the works before his death – director Terry Gilliam's "The ...

Fourth from the left, Sally Bell, Mother of the late actor Heath Ledger, fifth from the left, Kate Ledger, sister, Kim Ledger, right, father, second from the right, Iness Ledger, wife of Kim Ledger, ...

Few villain performers have endured through the years as much as Heath Ledger’s Joker. Ledger even won a posthumous Oscar for his supporting performance in the film, which is still praised to this day ...

The pencil trick scene from The Dark Knight, in which the Joker finds a creative way to make a pencil disappear, knocked out ...