"I always go through the process of hating it, hating myself, thinking I've fooled them, I can't actually do this." –Heath Ledger

When Heath Ledger is nominated next Thursday for his second Academy Award, exactly one year since his death, he will have fooled no one. In his final role he made vintage Jack Nicholson look bad, and he appeared to barely be trying. My favorite line in the Dark Knight is the baptismal bedside conversion of Harvey Dent into Two-Face, where the Joker slurs, “You know, they’re schemers. Schemers trying to control their worlds. I’m not a schemer.” This line belays the Joker as the twisted half-brother of Holden Caulfield, or Ben Braddock in the Graduate, or the American transcendentalist Thoreau - someone lost , but almost entirely because they are searching too hard to ever notice when they've stumbled onto something. The great irony is that one year after his death; Heath Ledger will have found what he always thought was alluding him. I hope now Heathy can get some rest.