Heath Ledger Articles

MONSTER’S BALL (2001) Direction: Marc Forster Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Heath Ledger, Peter Boyle, Sean Combs, Mos Def, Coronji Calhoun Screenplay: Milo Addica and Will Rokos Oscar Movies Halle Berry, Billy Bob Thornton, Monster’s Ball In Monster’s Ball — the title refers to the macabre partying held the night before the execution of a death-row inmate — first-time screenwriters Milo Addica and Will [...]

Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain SPLICE Essay Part I: The Effects of an Unusual Sex Scene This unpleasant incident was uncannily similar to what happened when I saw Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain. It is of consequence to mention that I saw Lee’s film in a much smaller theater in a distinctly liberal town in upstate New York. The viewing was going well, even through [...]

Kristen Stewart (above, as Twilight’s Bella Swan) and Taylor Lautner — without Robert Pattinson — are currently in Sydney doing some heavy-duty promotion for the upcoming Twilight Saga: Eclipse, which Hollywood hopes will help to ignite this year’s thus far disappointing summer movie season at the box office. Stewart was photographed smoking (shocking!) and giving the finger — actually, fingers; both hands — to the [...]

Penélope Cruz, Kate Winslet and Sean Penn — the three living performers who won Oscars in the acting categories last year — will return as presenters at the 2010 Academy Awards ceremony on March 7. Heath Ledger won a posthumous Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. He’d previously been nominated in the best actor category [...]