(LONDON) -- Actor Heath Ledger has won best supporting actor at the British Academy Film Awards in London, adding to an already gigantic list of wins this year for his character of The Joker in The Dark Knight.

Ledger's friend and director, former Monty Python star Terry Gilliam, will also receive a Bafta Fellowship in recognition of his contribution to film.

"I'm going to get very emotional and will probably need to be carried on stage in a blubbering heap," he said.

Gilliam's latest big screen adventure, The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, was Heath Ledger's final film.

He said the film "turned out great" and he hopes it will be a "fitting memorial" to the star.

Held two weeks before the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, the Baftas are one of the key events of the so-called film awards season.

All four of last year's Bafta-winning actors went on to receive the same awards on Oscar night.




Excerpt from BBC NEWS
Published: 2009/02/08 21:37:13 GMT


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