The Academy Awards honored the late Heath Ledger and his family for the 33 minutes of screentime he had in The Dark Knight playing The Joker. Ledger might not have been around to accept the prize.

Heath Ledger had just wrapped playing The Joker in 2008’s “The Dark Knight” when he moved on to work with Andrew Garfield in “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” — and he knew the DC Comics film ...

When Heath Ledger died at 28 in 2008, he had plans to be in another movie. The Oscar-winning “The Dark Knight” star died of an accidental overdose, and director Stephen Gaghan claimed on a recent ...

Andrew Garfield recalls his time with Heath Ledger on the set of 2009’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Garfield said that he worked with Ledger after he had finished filming The Dark Knight and ...

It's been 17 years since Heath Ledger's untimely death from an accidental overdose in New York City. The actor had recently completed filming Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight (2008) and his ...