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 ...

In 2008, a single line uttered by Heath Ledger in his Oscar-winning performance as the Joker in The Dark Knightchanged ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Michael Caine writes in his new memoir, “Don’t Look Back, You’ll Trip Over: My Guide to Life,” that he was actually “terrified” of Heath Ledger on the set of Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” (via ...