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Washington, Jan 12: Late Heath Ledger's family is delighted after the actor won the Golden Globes Award for his portrayal of the `Joker' in Dark Knight.

The late actor won the award in the Best Actor in a Supporting Role category.

"We are overjoyed for him," People magazine quoted his father Kim Ledger as saying.

"It''s wonderful" that Heath was honoured for his role in the action flick," he added.

Ledger was unable to make to the award ceremony due to personal reasons.

Los Angeles  - The Golden Globes was an international affair Sunday night as Mumbai-based drama Slumdog Millionaire won a best screenplay prize, a drama about Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon was named best foreign movie and Australian Heath Leger earned a posthumous award as best supporting actor.

Ledger's prize for his role as The Joker in the Batman drama The Dark Knight came almost a year after he died from an accidental drug overdose in New York last January.

Washington, Jan 10 : American actor Aaron Eckhart has revealed that he is positive that his late Dark Knight co-star Heath Ledger will be given the Oscar nod on January 22.

Ledger played The Joker in the movie, and was posthumously nominated for the role.

"I do. I don''t know why I do," US magazine quoted him as saying at the Critics'' Choice Awards in Santa Monica, California.

"I totally have no say whatsoever, but I do believe Heath is deserving of a nomination. I think he took a well-known character in movie history and made it his own and really resonated with the people.

London, Jan 5 : Hollywood actor Verne Troyer was so devastated after the death of co-star Heath Ledger, he found it hard to return to the movie set where they worked together.

The `Dark Knight' star was shooting `The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus' with Troyer before his death last year.

And after Troyer heard about Ledger's tragic death, he was wary of starting shooting again.

Melbourne, Jan 2 : Late Aussie actor Heath Ledger, who has been nominated for a posthumous Oscar, has taken the lead in an Internet poll in the US, along with his blockbuster, `The Dark Knight'.

Ledger was selected in many categories, marking him as the choice for the best supporting actor gongs at the two big pre-Oscar award ceremonies, the January 11 Golden Globes and the January 25 Screen Actors Guild Awards, reports News. com. au.