The late Heath Ledger was awarded the best villain trophy at the MTV Movie Awards for his twisted turn as the Joker in “The Dark Knight.” The honor was announced by MTV News correspondent Sway on the red carpet during an episode of the reality series “The Hills” before the Sunday ceremony was scheduled to begin.

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With his role as The Joker in “The Dark Knight,” Heath Ledger masterfully portrayed a dangerously unpredictable criminal, worthy of Batman’s attention. However, his posthumous win at Sunday night’s Academy Awards presentation for “Best Supporting Actor” was anything but “unpredictable.”

The odds-on favorite to win the coveted statuette, comic book and film fans the world over cheered as Ledger’s name was announced as the winner during Sunday’s Oscar presentation, capping off what can only be described as an historic awards season for the actor, which includes top honors from The Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Accepting the award on Ledger’s behalf was his father, Kim Ledger, his mother, Sally, and sister, Kate.

“This is ever so humbling,” said Kim Ledger. “We want to thank the Academy for recognizing our son’s amazing work, Warner Brothers and Christopher Nolan in particular for allowing Heath the creative license to develop and explore this crazy Joker character.”

“Tonight we are choosing to celebrate and be happy for what he has achieved,” said Sally Ledger.

“We proudly accept this award on behalf of your beautiful [daughter] Matilda,” said Kate Ledger.

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Heath has won Outstanding  Performance by  Male Actor in a supporting role at the 15th annual SAG awards!!  A very emotional Gary Oldman, Heath’s co-star in The Dark Knight, accepted the award on Heath’s behalf.

I’m a little late for this, but here’s the nominees for the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards airing as I post this!!

The Dark Knight has already won for “Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture”

Heath is nominated in the category “Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role”. Below is the full list.

• Josh Brolin, Milk
• Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
• Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
• Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
• Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire

We’ll keep you updated!

Nominations for the 81st Academy Awards were announced on January 22, 2009 by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis and Oscar winner Forest Whitaker.

Ganis and Whitaker, who won an Academy Award® for his lead performance in “The Last King of Scotland” (2006), announced the nominees in 10 of the 24 categories at a live news conference attended by more than 400 international media representatives.

Academy members from each of the branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories – actors nominate actors, film editors nominate film editors, etc. In the Animated Feature Film and Foreign Language Film categories, nominations are selected by vote of multi-branch screening committees. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees.

On the first anniversary of his death, Heath Ledger received an Oscar nomination.

The Dark Knight star is up for Best Supporting Actor, alongside Josh Brolin (Milk), Robert Downey Jr. (Tropic Thunder); Phillip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt) and Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road).

“It’s fantastic,” costar Aaron Eckhart told Usmagazine.com after his win. It’s wonderful. I couldn’t be happier!”

On Jan. 22, 2008, the actor died of a prescription drug overdose at his NYC apartment at the age of 28.

“For any of us lucky enough to have worked with him or to have enjoyed his performance, he will be eternally missed,” Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan said as he accepted Ledger’s Golden Globe award, “but he will never be forgotten.”

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It’s not the best quality, but this is for everyone unable to watch the Golden Globes.

Demi Moore presented the award for Best Supporting Actor, which was awarded to Heath for his role as the Joker in The Dark Night at the 66th annual Golden Globes awards. Director Christopher Nolan accepted the award on Heath’s behalf with a heart felt acceptance speech.

Heath created a masterpiece performance,  and his role as the joker will be remembered as iconic.  There is no question - Heath IS the definitive Joker.

Congratulations to Heath and his entire family.

“The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards” will air live on NBC Sunday, January 11 (8 - 11 p.m. EST) at The Beverly Hilton.

Heath is nominated in “Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture”

Tom Cruise – Tropic Thunder
Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
Ralph Fiennes – The Duchess
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight

‘The Dark Night’ was nominated in several categories at tonight’s (Jan 7) 35th annual People’s Choice Awards. Predictably, The Dark Night was clearly the people’s choice. The cast walked away with trophies in the following categories: Favorite Movie; Favorite Action Movie; Favorite Cast; Christian Bale for Favorite Superhero; and the most touching award of the night went to Christian Bale and Heath Ledger for Favorite On Screen Match up.

In memory of Heath and his integral role in the success of  The Dark Night, we will post some photos in the gallery of the awards show.