As predicted, the late Heath Ledger won the coveted posthumous Golden Globe Award for Best suppoting actor for his performance in The Dark Knight. The film’s director, Christopher Nolan picked up the award on his behalf.

“All of us who worked with Heath on the Dark Knight accept this with an awful mix of sadness and incredible pride,” Nolan said, after the star-studded audience rose to their feet as the award was announced.

The late actor beat several critically acclaimed nominees including including oscar-winner Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Tom Cruise

From the moment he stepped into the hearts of teenage-girls in 1999s,  Ten Things I Hate About You right up to his portrayal as the diabolical Joker in The Dark Knight, Ledger was critically acclaimed for his ability to dissapear in his roles.  The actor, born in Perth, Australia, recieved an Oscar-nomination for his portrayal of Ennis Del Mar in 2005’s Brokeback Mountain.

Watch Heath’s Win for The Dark Knight

Other Winners

Without a doubt, Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire was turned out to be the Cinderalla-flick of the night by sweeping 4 awards including the coveted Best Motion Picture Drama Award.

Mickey Rourke’s portrayal in The Wrestler earned him the golden globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama, while the Colin Farell recieved the award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his performance in In Bruges.

It’s a great start to the year for Kate Winslet as she picked up both awards for Best Actress (drama) in a lead and supporting role for her performances in Revolutionary Road and The Reader. Sally Hawkins won for best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

As predicted Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir won for Best foreign language film while the award for best animated feature went to Dinsey Pixar’s WALL-E.

A Cinderalla Night?

It appears that the phrase, “just being nominated is an award in itself,” will be echoing for weeks on end. This is probably because the 66th Golden Globes probably had the most notrious, non-winners. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon and Doubt were the event’s top nominated pitcures all recieving 5 nominatons; none of them won an award. 

Personally, I believe all the winners rightfully deserved their awards. I understand that there’s no such word as loosing in such glamourous events, so without any malicious intent, I shall recall a phrase that was regularly during my days in high-school; 

Loosing is just a nature’s way of saying you suck.