Heath Ledger wins Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor

Heath Ledger has won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor this evening, making him a short priced favorite to pick up an Academy Award.

Christopher Nolan, Director of The Dark Knight accepted the award on behalf of Ledger:

“All of us who worked with Heath on ‘The Dark Night’ accept this with an awful mixture of sadness, but incredible pride.” While Nolan said Ledger’s passing represented “a hole ripped in the history of cinema,” he also pointed to “the incredible place in the history of cinema that he built for himself.” Nolan ended his remarks by saying, “He will be eternally missed, but he will never be forgotten.”

Ledger has been named best supporting actor of 2008 in the following awards this seasons: Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Boston Society of Film Critics, the Chicago Film Critics Association, the Southeastern Film Critics Association, the Toronto Film Critics Association, and the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association.

The honor comes just short of the first anniversary of Ledger’s 2008 death by accidental drug overdose.

(via THR)