The Wrestler - Mickey Rourke
The Dark Knight - Heath Ledger
The Reader - Kate Winslet
The Wrestler - Marisa Tomei
WALL-E
Waltz with Bashir - Israel
Slumdog Millionaire

My selection:

Leading Performance By a Male Actor: The Wrestler - Mickey Rourke

Performance by an actor in a supporting role: The Dark Knight - Heath Ledger

Performance by a leading actress: Undecided

Performance by a supporting actress: The Wrestler - Marisa Tomei

Animated Feature of the Year: WALL-E

Best Foreign Language Feature: The Baader Meinhof Complex - Germany

Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire

If he's faking that accent, he deserves Heath Ledger's Oscar.

*quality I was just thinking about Heath Ledger, today, and how his apartment was taken off the market because no one wants to live where he died. :[

Tags for this video have been changed from 'The Dark Knight, Batman, Joker, Pencil, Face, Heath, Ledge, Bale, Dark, Humour' to 'Dark Knight, Batman, Joker, Pencil, Face, Heath, Ledger, Bale, Dark, Humor, magic trick' - edited by gourmetemu

Favourites
1) Season - summer, without a doubt.
2) Place in the world - Home, but then I've never been very far from it.
3) Children's book - Either the Hobbit or Paddington.
4) TV Series - Futurama, Lost, South Park and my latest craze House.
5) Word - Gahagafacka
6) Film - Iron Giant (Soooo pah mahhn.. tears every time)
7) Curse - Fuck or bullcrap.
Creature - Woman or shark.
9) Past time - Then.
10)Person - Hmm, I don't know. Some of my friends, I presume, but I don't play favorites with them.

Which one?

11) Dog or cat - Lately cat, but I love dogs too.
12) Sweet or savoury - Savoury
13) Cereal or Toast - Cereal
14) Tan or pale - It's all good.
15) Shoes or barefoot - shoes.
16) Desktop or laptop - desktop.
17) Drive or walk - Drive
18) Drama or comedy - Comedy
19) Sex or food - Sex with food.
20) Futurama or Simpsons - Futurama.

The Sift

21) Your fave personal submission - http://www.videosift.com/video/Oh-reginald-I-disagree
22) A great comment on one of your vids - http://www.videosift.com/video/Homer-J-Simpson-greatest-thinker-of-our-time#comment-433008
23) Most off the wall member - Choggie, BillO or thepinky, I think. And that lucky760's always been a rotten apple.
24) Favourite user name - Fissionchips
25) Your most used channel - Animation or comedy
26) Personal dumbass moment - According to Tofumar: http://actionpack.videosift.com/talk/SiftQuisition-MrFisk-DrAlcibiades-The-Absence-of-Reason#comment-422314 but I don't think so.
27) Best avatar - Schmawy, hands down.
28) Partner in crime - JAPR or NicoleBee
29) Do people offline know of your sift problem - Problem, what problem?
30) Idea for the site - StumbleUpon-like page.

About you

31) Where do you live - Aarhus Denmark
32) Smoker/non-smoker - Non-smoker
33) Left or right handed - Right.
34) Hair colour - Dark brownish
35) Relationship status - Permasingle
36) How tall - 183cm, I have no idea that is in your yards and furlongs.
37) Children - Belligerent and numerous. (naw, ain't got kids)
38) Ever had an operation - Polyps when I was tiny.
39) Best feature - Dry wit, penchant for motorboating. (and I don't care for sailing.. )
40) Use four words to describe yourself - Thinker, nice, elitist, softie

If you could...what, who, when etc

41) Bring a famous person back from the dead - Someone who died before his/her time and would appreciate another go around. Don't know who though. Maybe Heath Ledger. MOZART!
42) Give 50 grand to any charity - Richard Dawkins foundation for Reason and Science
43) Send someone on a one way ticket to the moon - Sean Hannity
44) Relive a moment in your life - A gentleman don't kiss and tell.
45) Have a superpower - Fly, I think.
46) Find out one thing you've always wanted to know - Everything.
47) Have the opposite gender deal with something you have to - Masturbation, that is.. MY masturbation.
48) Be president for one hour - Probably couldn't do something long term, but I would abolish tax exempts for religious organizations.
49) Delete a period in history - If I delete it, it will happen again. It stays.
50) Achieve one thing - Technological Singularity.

I like it but Jesus this is such an extremely overrated album. Usually what happens whenever artists die *cough heath ledger cough*

It was an alright unplugged but greatest ever recorded? comparing it to what exactly? other albums that appear on radio/MTV? then yes, but then that's not saying much.

thanks a_c i doubt i can find a replacement for that one.. ah well.

i saw brokeback at home, and it actually caused me to go into a major depressive episode. thankfully it didn't last too long and i found a website where other people were going through similar reactions, that helped a lot (and made me feel like slightly less of a total FREAK). it seems a little weird to look back on now, to have had such a strong emotional response to a fictitious movie, but it's nice to know i wasn't alone in feeling that way.

i have seen as many love stories / tragedies as anyone else, some of them gay, but there is something about this one that really slaughtered me. perhaps it's just the combination of great storytelling, directing, acting etc, or perhaps it's something else, i could never quite decide.

heath ledger's death brought it all back again, the timing was eerie, i had been planning on posting a brokeback clip for a little while, approaching gold... then that happened just as i was on 49! i had never given the guy a moment's thought before brokeback, but quickly realised he was going to be one of the 'greats' of this generation. i know all life is valuable, but i do feel sad that i don't get to enjoy seeing what he would've done.

oh god i'm raving on already! don't get me started!

In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
Hey mate, this vid is dead, pfft.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Scene-from-Brokeback-Mountain-The-Seeds-of-Fear

I have to say, I loved your "long, boring summary" of this. I went to watch it with my best friend. We got out of the cinema and he was very quiet, I was chatting away, just an unbelievable film, one of the most tragic love stories ever told. And we got to the car and he just sobbed and sobbed. It touched him so much. Of course it didn't touch me in the same way, although there are plenty of love stories that do, but it was so nice, because finally someone had told a proper story about real love between two men. Anyway, i'll try and find an embed for it if you haven't got round to it. Just thought i'd share that with you, as what you wrote made me think of it and i'm sure you got a similar experience as he had

*promote for Heath Ledger!

>> ^Kreegath:
Don't like the new Joker at all.
Just like with everything else nowadays they just had to make him more emo goth dark, completely detached from all other incarnations of the Joker. Kind of sad to see him reduced to a generic, misunderstood, dark villain with a sad, troubled past. Probably kept the name solely for name recognition's sake, which led to them being forced to add the face paint. By the look of it, however, it's clear the instructions on how to apply said face paint wasn't specific enough.
Then again, this video might not accurately portray the Joker of the new movie. Or, I'm simply not the target audience.


Is your entire knowledge base about the Joker based on Nicholson's performance? Ledger's Joker is far, far truer to the DC version of the Joker. And you haven't even seen the movie!

I liked the movie. But then again, I'm the perfect moviegoer, because I suspend my logic for two and a half hours. I don't know how I do it, since my mind is ALWAYS on, but occasionally I like to turn off the night-light and drool like a dullard for a while.

I didn't like Batman's voice, and I don't think Maggie Gyllenhall is hot enough to be wanted by two rich and powerful men, but at least Arnold or George Clooney weren't involved.

Oh, and I think Heath Ledger should receive the Best Supporting Actor award. And it is based purely on merit, in my mind. I've seen some of his movies where he can't act out of a wet paper bag, but in this he broke through and was mesmerizing.

There. I've had my say.

Gibson seemed fine with mocking Heath Ledger's death on the air.

Ah, yeah I get your point. Well, who knows, it's coming out soon and we can always hope to be pleasantly surprised with what they did to him.

In reply to this comment by Kreegath:
I'm not saying either Joker hasn't done bad things, that's really what they do for a living, being comic book badguys and all. However, that a villain has done bad things doesn't necessarily make their persona characteristics dark, emo goth with a sad undertone.
That's where my problem with this trailer lies, just like with most of these hero movies as of late. They don't bother to enhance or subdue the established characteristics and/or personality traits of the villains/heroes, they simply change them altogether to fit in the darker, brooding mold that seems to be so popular nowadays.
What I am saying is that based on that preview, the Joker they portray seems no different from any other villain depicted in major film releases the last couple of years. Basically, and this is again only based on what's seen in that trailer, the two things noticable that sets aside him as the Joker from Mr. Generic is the trademark face paint (although a butchered paint job in this case, as I speculated they were probably forced to add it to make it clearer that it in fact is the Joker) aswell as his name. That in no way means I'm advocating they make the Joker exactly the same in every movie, but if they're going to use the Joker the least they could do is use the Joker and not some (un)original character extremely loosely based on the Joker.

In reply to this comment by Shepppard:
..the dark emo side of the joker? You DO know the joker is a complete homocidal maniac, he blew up one of the Robins AND his mother, and crippled barbara gordon (Batgirl) by showing up to her house, knocking on the door, waiting til she answered and shot her point blank, with a smile on his face the entire time.

There really isn't a villian that GETS more dark then the joker..

>> ^Kreegath:
Don't like the new Joker at all.
Just like with everything else nowadays they just had to make him more emo goth dark, completely detached from all other incarnations of the Joker. Kind of sad to see him reduced to a generic, misunderstood, dark villain with a sad, troubled past. Probably kept the name solely for name recognition's sake, which led to them being forced to add the face paint. By the look of it, however, it's clear the instructions on how to apply said face paint wasn't specific enough.
Then again, this video might not accurately portray the Joker of the new movie. Or, I'm simply not the target audience.


..the dark emo side of the joker? You DO know the joker is a complete homocidal maniac, he blew up one of the Robins AND his mother, and crippled barbara gordon (Batgirl) by showing up to her house, knocking on the door, waiting til she answered and shot her point blank, with a smile on his face the entire time.

There really isn't a villian that GETS more dark then the joker..

>> ^videosiftbannedme:
Too early to say. I haven't seen Ledger's performance yet.


Exactly, we're just looking at his performance from the trailers. It's not a very good comparison right now. Jack's performance still remains the best, until I see Heath's. I can't go on word of mouth.