Heath Ledger is apparently going to get some kind of movie award. Whoop de doo.

"It is so poignant that he receives this award nearly a year after his untimely death."
I have to things to point out...

1 - It's not as if he cured cancer or fixed US/Vietnamese relations. He was an actor. Big deal, I can think of plenty of dead actors better than him.
2 - He died of a drug overdose, I think death is actually very timely when it comes immediately after stuffing half of Glaxo down your neck.

That said, he was actually pretty good in that Batman film.