Somehow movie dstributors manage to position stars of their movies so they are up for Oscars in categories that the movie companies want. Just as it was a crime that Kate Winslet won a Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe for "The Reader" - when she was the star of that movie - remember - the other leading character was played by two different actors (and she may well win the Best Actress Oscar), it's a crime that Heath Ledger is up for a Best Supporting Actor - just because he played a bad guy in the "Dark Knight" and apparently because folks want to make sure he gets a posthumous Oscar. The movie's "good guy" - Christian Bale as Batman - arguably got slightly more screen time in "Knight." But Ledger was close behind, and - let's face it - he was the star of the movie. As good as Michael Shannon was - for example - in "Revolutionary Road" - which I saw yesterday - it's hard to imagine how he could compete - with his 10 minutes total of screen time - against Ledger, who seemed to have almost an hour in "Knight" (a movie that I bet, like us, millions of people worldwide have seen more than once). I'd like to see - in a few minutes - how Ledger would have done vs. Frank Langella of "Frost/Nixon," Richard Jenkins of "The Visitor," and the others (whose movies I haven't yet seen). I bet Ledger might win the Best Actor Oscar he arguably should have won for "Brokeback Mountain" - if it weren't for movie companies trying to manipulate the results.
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