Who *will* win the best supporting actor Oscar for 2009? Who *should* win? - Featured
*Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder
*Philip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt
*Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight
*Michael Shannon in Revolutionary Road
Also, let me know another great performance your Best supporting Actor pick has given in the past. What other film should I watch if I loved them in 2008?
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Ledger on Sunday night will become the second actor to win an Oscar after his or her death. Critics' associations from Boston to Washington have lauded his performance, and he's already won just about every supporting actor award there is, including the Golden Globe. His turn as The Joker, a villain of absolute, unquenchable evil who loves reminding Batman how they are simply two sides of the same obsession, was the engine that drove The Dark Knight to its box-office success. If an actor other than Ledger wins the supporting actor Oscar, Congress may be called on to investigate.
Watch his performance in Brokeback Mountain, for which he was a nominee for Academy Award for Best Actor for this performance, making him, at age 26, the ninth youngest nominee for a Best Actor Oscar. Brokeback Mountain snub will be the reason for his win this time!
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Who Should Win – Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight).
I also loved Heath Ledger in the 2006 love story 'Candy.' His range as an actor was truly remarkable.
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Why so serious?
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Ledger will win.
Here's an interview with Ledger talking about his role as The Joker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKa-aDga1fE
Regardless of his death, a lot of folks consider his performance to have outshined the rest of the cast in the movie. In such a well acted movie, that's tough to do. I think that this movie will win and rightly so - it should win.
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Only one actor has ever won an Oscar posthumously: Peter Finch in 1976 for Network. Many more have been nominated and not won:
- 1928/9 Jeanne Eagels, The Letter (actress)
- 1955 James Dean, East of Eden (actor)
- 1956 James Dean, Giant (actor)
- 1967 Spencer Tracy, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (actor)
- 1976 Peter Finch, Network (actor)
- 1984 Ralph Richardson, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (supporting actor)
- 1995 Massimo Troisi, Il Postino (actor & screenplay)
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- he's dead. (sorry, Darcy, this is my intuition not fact)
- he didn't win for Brokeback Mountain
- I don't think the movie will get any other major awards
- the Golden Globe award he won for Dark Knight paved the way.
I actually think Sean Penn should win for Milk, though
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