Not much to say on this, other than I turned the news on not even aware that this was going to come up, and caught the Oscar nominations being read.
I know we’re all pulling for him.
He died a year ago today, and got his second Oscar nomination. (The first was for Brokeback Mountain.) I don’t like co-opting other people’s pain, but I still feel that the loss of Ledger was a loss for everyone who loves movies. And that’s most of us, after all.
January 22nd, 2009 at 9:28 am
I know I may sound like a jerk, but I’m not pulling for him like that. While I think his performance was great, I do not deem it worth the achievement in this way, mainly because it feels like it is some sort of capitalization on his image and the impact it still has over the media. Still, for the category assigned, he’s probably going to get it, mainly because he was the best supporting role around. And yet, it feels a bit cheap. And he never was one of my preferred actors around.
:ducks:
January 22nd, 2009 at 11:03 am
He was worthy of the nomination, and I have no doubt that he would’ve gotten it even if he was still alive to enjoy it. It’s a strawman arguement of course, since we have no way of knowing. But yeah, Heath was that good.
And so was TDK. I can’t claim to have seen all of the nominated films. I’ve seen a couple (Frost/Nixon and Milk), and I do want to see Slumdog Millionaire too, but I definitely think both TDK and Wall*E were among the very best films of 2008, regardless of how much money they made, or the subject matter of those films, or which studios produced them.
They were every bit as good as both Frost/Nixon and Milk were, and I think the Academy tends to go overboard for “period” films.
January 22nd, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Thank you for being one of the few bloggers who hasn’t acted like Ledger’s nom was the first and only time a comic movie role was taken seriously by the Oscar people. It’s a shame that our own fandom ignores the previous two Best Supporting nods given to Paul Newman and William Hurt (for Road to Perdition and A History of Violence).
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:08 pm
NOM NOM NOM.