Warner Bros. Release: Heath Ledger for Best Supporting Actor

Posted by dominie in Events, Films, News on November 23rd, 2008

The Heath Ledger poster to the left was unveiled today in a Variety advertisement. /Film reports that Warner Bros. has released it to push for an Academy Award nomination for Ledger’s role in The Dark Knight as Best Supporting Actor. I cannot agree more with the poster, which reads from Time Magazine, “Heath Ledger is magnificent. The Joker, incarnated with chilling authority by the actor, is simply one of the most twisted and mesmerizing creeps in movie history.”

The Academy Award ballots are mailed in right after Christmas on December 26th. The polls close on January 12th, and nominations are revealed on January 22nd. Currently in the running for Best Supporting Actor is Michael Shannon in Revolutionary Road, Philip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt, John Malkovich in Changeling, Ralph Fiennes in Duchess, John Malkovich and Brad Pitt in Burn After Reading, and Robert Downey, Jr. in Tropic Thunder.