Oscars ... Compassionate Award?

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uzamakigirl

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Do you think that Heath Ledger would have been awarded the Best Supporting Actor Oscar of his role as the Joker if he hadn't died?

Personally, I think he got the sympathy vote ... not to say he wasn't good in the role - and other roles - but I think some of the other nominees were more deserving.
 
I've heard lots of people say he wone it because he died..for me the film was rubbish and he should have won for Brokeback mountain..if he had he wouldn't have won it this year..though most films that win oscars to me are usually rubbish
 
He was very well known and popular in my house Rebel, as is Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp..but that's daughters for you .. mine has good taste :p

Would he have won if he hadn't died? We will probably never know that for sure plus I haven't seen the film... although I did think Jack Nicholson made an excellent Joker (I have seen that one :D)
 
Several actors die young every year. Only two have ever won posthumous acting Oscars in the 80 years of the awarRAB.

If it were a sympathy award, I'd expect this sort of thing to be a more common occurrence.
 
Histeria - glad you quoted some figures there, I have to say whenever someone recieves an award posthumously I do tend to assume that sympathy was a factor in them getting the award.
 
To be honest no one will ever know one way or another- maybe he would always have got an Oscar for his performance, maybe his death swayed the judges, maybe it was a bit of both- he did however win just about every major award for his performance so maybe an Oscar was inevitable.

Personally I think James Dean should have got a posthumous Oscar for Rebel Without A Cause- that was a truely brilliant performance.
 
Even if they did award him it for that reason and I'm hoping they did not, he definitely had the same right in winning it as the others, I thought the performance was fantastic and fully worthy of winning the Oscar.
 
well, this is something that i've been thinking. i'd like to think he won the award because he played the Joker really well. Certainly in the clips i saw, he was terrifying...so he did his job well as far as i'm concerned...I'd like to think he won the Oscar/Bafta because of his performance, and NOT because of the media coverage surrounding his death...
 
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