Heath Ledger and WALL-E win Oscars

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has rarely gone a bundle on SF and fantasy. Sure, The Return Of The King walked off with a record-equalling 11 Golden Baldies , but normally Oscar’s love for the genre doesn’t stretch beyond a few nominations and prizes in the technical categories.

So we should probably treat this year’s haul as a success. Heath Ledger won a posthumous Best Supporting Actor prize for his magnificent performance in The Dark Knight, making him only the second man to win an acting Oscar after his death (the first being Peter Finch in Network) and one of the least surprising winners of the night. Ledger’s parents parents and sister came to the ceremony at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre to collect the award from a quintet of previous winners: Christopher Walken, Kevin Kline, Alan Arkin, Cuba Gooding Jr and Joel Grey.

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