After The Dark Knight’s premiere last week, many said that Heath Ledger’s performance deserved an Oscar. But after the hype of his performance some are beginning to question, does Heath Ledger really deserve an Oscar? Some of his co-actors in The Dark Knight say he does. Even Gary Oldman agrees that Heath deserves an Oscar nomination for what he termed as “landmark performance” and that he “turned out to be beyond my expectation.” However, Heath can’t please everybody. Other critics who have seen the film think he is not an Oscar material because his performance in the movie wasn’t as spooky and frightening as the Joker should be.

It’s all really a matter of different opinions by different personalities and experts in show business.

But if Heath Ledger gets an Oscar nomination for The Dark Knight, he will be the seventh actor to be nominated for an Oscar after his death. Other actors who gained an Oscar nomination after they passed away were James Dean, Spencer Tracy, Ralph Richardson, Jeanne Eagels and Peter Finch. It was only Peter Finch who won one.

We’ll just have to see if the award-giving body thinks Heat Ledger is Oscar material or not.