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THE WINGS:
I sincerely hope there will be at least some sort of tribute to Heath at this year's Oscars (if there is a show).
Of course, this is totally 'pie-in-the-sky' thinking on my part, but maybe even a post-humous Oscar for his work in Brokeback Mountain.  (We can all dream, can't we?)  That will be probably the only reason I would watch the show.  Anyone with any thoughts?

THE WINGS

souxi:

--- Quote from: THE WINGS on February 02, 2008, 06:31:44 am ---I sincerely hope there will be at least some sort of tribute to Heath at this year's Oscars (if there is a show).
Of course, this is totally 'pie-in-the-sky' thinking on my part, but maybe even a post-humous Oscar for his work in Brokeback Mountain.  (We can all dream, can't we?)  That will be probably the only reason I would watch the show.  Anyone with any thoughts?

THE WINGS

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I totally agree with you. I think he should be awarded the Oscar he should have got for BBM posthumously. He deserves it and it,s the right thing to do. Bless him. :'(

HerrKaiser:
Unfortunately while tons of people think he unfairly lost to Philip S Hoffman, the academy would never slap Hoffman in the face by now awarding Ledger the award. The best they could do is award him a life time achievement oscar, but those are usually not given to the very young. What we can expect is to see Heath within the annual memorial tribute to all the Hollywood industry folks who passed since the last awards show. This is a montage of photos (some film) of the celebs; each is on the screen for a few seconds. They try to make each person about equal, but the biggest names often have had more than one still and/or a film clip. Given that Heath's death will still be relatively recent and he is more of a peer to the live audience than most of the others who died and he is recently big box office, the director may give him a more notable section. Hope so. I'm sure there will be applause.

serious crayons:
I think they'll give him an extra-long segment in the "academy members who died in the past year" portion of the show. But I don't think they'll do anything special beyond that, because they really would be opening up a can of worms. What happens when another talented young actor/actress dies? Or one who's a little older? Or one who's middle aged or later, but still working? Where would they draw the line?

Sheriff Roland:
And then there's always next year's oscar, where he's likely to be nominated and possibly win for his performance as the Joker.

Not that the oscars mean anything to me, anymore.

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