Heath Ledger notably didn't present at the Oscars when he was nominated for 'Brokeback Mountain,' and ... (Best Supporting Actor) in the romantic drama. Notably at the Academy Awards ceremony, ...

The Academy Awards honored the late Heath Ledger and his family for the 33 minutes of screentime he had in The Dark Knight playing The Joker. Ledger might not have been around to accept the prize.

Heath Ledger's Oscar legacy, his best supporting actor trophy for the madly villainous Joker in The Dark Knight, is destined to pass into the hands of his daughter, Matilda.

Heath Ledger and Audrey Hepburn Jim Spellman/WireImage; Maureen Donaldson/Getty Images. Heath Ledger. The actor was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as the Joker in The Dark Knight.His ...

Jake Gyllenhaal recently revealed why his late "Brokeback Mountain" co-star Heath Ledger famously declined presenting at the 2006 Academy Awards.. Speaking to Another Man magazine for the Summer ...

Heath Ledger arrives with Michelle Williams for the 78th Academy Awards, in this Sunday, March 5, 2006 file photo, in Los Angeles.

“I mean, I remember they wanted to do an opening for the Academy Awards that year that was sort of joking about it,” Gyllenhaal, 39, told fashion magazine, Another Man. “And Heath refused.

In a recent interview with Another Man magazine, Jake Gyllenhaal, who starred opposite Ledger in Ang Lee’s film, said that the late actor refused to present at the 2007 Academy Awards over a ...

Heath Ledger wins posthumous Oscar. Adding an emotional coda to a career that was cut down in its prime, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has named the late Heath Ledger as best ...

Actor Jake Gyllenhaal revealed in a recent interview that Heath Ledger, his co-star in “Brokeback Mountain,” refused to appear at the 2007 Academy Awards ceremony over an opening monologue ...

Just ahead of the 2009 Academy Awards, when Heath Ledger posthumously won the supporting Oscar for his role as the Joker in Christopher Nolan ’s “The Dark Knight,” writer Michael Ordona ...

If Heath Ledger is named best supporting actor at Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony, his daughter, 3-year-old Matilda Rose Ledger, will become the owner of the Oscar statuette.