Heath Ledger won the best supporting actor Oscar on Sunday for his performance as The Joker in Batman movie "The Dark Knight," with the award hailed a fitting tribute for the Australian actor who ...

Heath Ledger was nominated for best supporting actor at the 2009 Academy Awards for playing The Joker in Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight." He won, becoming the first actor to win a posthumous ...

Ledger played the Joker in The Dark Knight and was posthumously awarded an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 2009 after he died of a drug overdose at the age of 28 on Jan. 22, 2008.

News of Ledger’s Jan. 22, 2008, death surfaced about a month before the awards ceremony, and the academy honored the young thespian during its annual montage of deceased Hollywood contributors.

After Heath Ledger won an Oscar in 2010 for his work as Joker in The Dark Knight, Joaquin Phoenix later joined him in winning for his lead performance in 2019’s Joker. Joker was beloved and went ...