高手帮我翻译一下这段小演讲稿，不胜感激
Everybody good, today I must lecture is the cartoon animation which looked about our childhood. If everybody knows, when we are child's time, regardless of is domestically produced Japan Europe and America, all is attracting our eyeball (animated cartoon name role name and author name a little is difficult to translate) this fills the basket master, nearly all people all knew the prunes pseudocerasus wood shavings said, flows the Sichuan maple tree long-lived, Mitsubishi and so on the roles, he is male Yan draws by the well in, started in 1994 to broadcast following was the saint warrior, the inside Greek Athens myth has led us another world. We knew very well the tenacious saint warrior, let us know any named was tenacious. As a result of plot need, therefore the leads still could win in the strength disparity very big situation, therefore for does not die by our joking designation five small meets down was the cat and the mouse, this American animated cartoon, brought to the world laughed heartily. We early morning 78 o'clock punctually crawl from the bed are every day in order to watch this short ten minute animations. Although this animated cartoon will already have is near 70 years history, but it instead could appear along with the time has charm finally this, I wanted to possess the human all not to be able to forget, it will be in the Chinese animation history a milestone -like masterpiece - - bottle gourd baby.This animation narration seven brothers who lives from the bottle gourd, eliminates the spirit, protects own homeland (behind not to know said any has been good, master own may add under several transition - -) to work as our every evening 6 and half o'clock, defend in front of the television, was waiting for excitedly when bottle gourd baby, that kind of feeling is very wonderful continues these, but also has black cat sheriff, Ah Fan-ti, the beautiful young girl soldier, seven Capsicum anomalism, Airedale vice-sheriff, enduring god turtle and so on, all gives us the childhood to bring the inexhaustible happiness. Is willing us to be able to maintain this pure heart, will enjoy every one day to thank next!
一篇关于中国交通的英文演讲稿
Life is beautiful, beautiful world is composed of a beautiful life. The lives of people, animal, plant life生命是美丽的，美丽的世界是由美丽的生命组成的。
人有生命，动物有生命，植物也有生命，Animals also have lives,大自然中的万事万物都有生命。
Everything has a life in nature.只要我们细心体会，As long as we carefully understand,就会感受到生Feel the life命的意义。
The meaning of life.江苏省金坛市城南小学的一名女教师，面对飞驰而来的汽车，刹那间张开双臂，A female teachers in Primary School of Jintan province south of Jiangsu, in the face of a speeding car, suddenly opened his arms,把正在过马路的学生奋力推向路边，The students struggling to across the road to the roadside,“嘭Bang”的一声巨响，她倒在A loud crash, she fell in2525米之外的血泊Meters from the pool of blood中In the……......在我们身边，Around us,许许多多的普通人，Many ordinary people,虽然没有惊天动地的英雄壮举，Although there is no shaking heaven and earth's Heroes feat,却无时不在谱At any time spectrum写着生命之歌：Write a song of life:精心哺育我们的老师，Carefully nurtured us teacher,.救死扶伤的白衣天使，Nurse, heal the wounded and rescue the dying坚守岗位的人民警The people's police stick to their posts察，为你日夜操劳的爸爸妈妈Observe, worked day and night for you mom and Dad……......不知你是否见过悬崖上的青松，I do not know have you ever seen a pine on the cliff,石缝中的小树，The crevice in the trees,一棵棵茁壮成长。
Yi Keke grow sturdily.它们不需要谁They don't need anyone来施肥，也不需要谁来灌溉，任严寒酷暑，任风欺雪压，却顽强地向上生长Fertilization, who does not need to irrigate, let the bitter cold and scorching heat, wind or snow, but strong upward growth……......或许你在报纸上看过这条消息：一只生命垂危的小猫被送进了诊所。
经过检查，You may have seen the news in the newspaper: a dying cat was sent to the clinic. After inspection,医生如此描述了小猫的病情：“左眼撕裂，眼睑发炎，中枢神经受损，半身几乎The doctor is so described: cat eye disease and inflammation of the eyelids, tear, central nervous system damage, almost half瘫痪。
”然而谁能想到，这竟是几个小学生的“杰作”
小猫被发现时，正被几Paralysis. But who can think of, this is a few pupils ! The kitten was found, a few being名身穿校服的小学生玩弄着，Wearing uniforms students playing,它痛苦地喵喵直叫，Meow meow complained bitterly,幸亏被人救起，Thanks to be rescued,才逃脱厄运„„To escape the bad luck大家都知道，在世界万物中，唯有生命最为珍贵，没有生命就没有一切，失去生As we all know, all things in the world, the most precious is life, life is not everything, lose命，就失去自我，失去生活的权利，我们要热爱生命。
Life, you lose yourself, lose the right to life, we must love life.一粒种子，一只蚂蚁，都是联系着一条小小的生命，在中华五千年文明历史中，A seed, an ant, are associated with a little life, in the five thousand years of Chinese civilization history,是人类用一颗热爱生命的恒心，Man has a perseverance, love life编制了一条文明的生命之河。
Compiled a river of civilized life.自强不息的海伦Helen's unremitting self-improvement·-凯Kai勒终身残疾，Le lifelong disability,残而不废的刘侠，Liu Xia, Canerbufei双耳失聪却创作出世界名曲的贝多芬，Deaf but to create the world famous Beethoven,都在向我At me们诉说着生命的真谛。
是什么力量让他们变得伟大
有什么力量让他们自强不We tell the true meaning of life. What makes them so great? What kind of strong and dont let them息
我，Interest? I,是生命，Is life,是生命那火一般的力量，Is the power of fire, life让对他们而言不公平的命运变得熠熠The fate of so unfair for them to become bright生辉。
Brilliance.生命是一种神秘的力量，Life is a kind of mysterious power,说它脆弱它就像薄冰一样不堪一击，It fragile it like ice cannot withstand a single blow,说它坚强，It is strong,它又如It also大山一般坚忍不拔。
海伦Mountains firm and indomitable. Helen·-凯勒是一位双耳失聪、双目失明的不幸的残疾人，但Keller is a deaf blind people, unfortunately, but她凭着自己坚强的毅力和信念，She with strong will and faith,凭着对生命的热爱，With love of life,先后掌握了四门外语，Has mastered four foreign languages,成为Become哈佛大学的一名残疾学生，你能不说这是生命的奇迹吗
A disabled student at Harvard University, you can not say that this is the miracle of life?生命是短暂的，我们去热爱生命、珍惜生命。
用短暂的生命，绘出一副绚丽多彩Life is short, we love life, cherish life. Use short life, draw a blew的画
The painting!生命，只有一次；我们应该如何把握自己的生命之舟，使自己的生活变得更精彩，创造一个有关生命的奇迹，是每一个人都值得去思考的问题。
Life only once; we should how to grasp their own life boat, make your life more exciting, to create a miracle of life, everyone is worth thinking about.
请问谁有苏教版牛津英语初中和小学的上学期的期末复习资料
7A Unit 1 This is me!1、a. 长的2、a. 短的3、a. 乐于助人的，有帮助的4、a. 每一，每个的5、a. 苗条的6、a. 强壮的,强大的7、a. 身体好的8、a. 深色的;黑暗的9、a. 下一个的;紧接着的;ad. 接着，随后10、a. 有礼貌的，客气的11、a.好极的;使人快乐的12、abbr.光盘(compact disc的缩写)13、ad. 经常14、ad. 努力地; a. 困难的15、ad. 然后，那时；那么16、ad. 通常17、ad. 有时18、ad. 又,再19、ad. 真的,真正地20、ad. 总是21、n. (外)祖父(母)22、n. （一）天，（一）日23、n. 比赛,竞赛24、n. 餐馆25、n. 成员26、n. 诞生地27、n. 电子狗28、n. 队,组29、n. 绘图30、n. 年31、n. 年级; 32、n. 年龄33、n. 排球；排球运动34、n. 散步；步行35、n. 数学36、n. 体育，体育运动37、n. 午餐时间38、n. 橡皮39、n. 小时40、n. 新闻,消息41、n. 兴趣小组，俱乐部42、n. 业余爱好43、n. 音乐44、n. 游泳45、n. 鱼; 鱼肉46、n. 羽毛球47、n. 阅读48、n. 正餐，宴会49、n. 周末50、n. 主人51、n.& vi. 散步,步行52、n.（球赛等的）得分53、n.[复数]眼镜54、n.功课;（一节）课55、n.球场56、n.运动员,选手57、prep. 在...之后;conj. 在...以后;ad. 以后,后来58、pron. 每个人59、pron. 某人60、vi. 出生61、vi. 飞; vt. 放飞；放（风筝等）62、vi. 跑,跑步，奔跑63、vi.& vt. 开始64、vi.听起来; n. 声音65、vi.游泳66、vt. （向别人）借 ,借用67、vt. 戴；穿68、vt. 说,讲69、vt.& n. 得分70、vt.& vi. 吃71、vt.& vi. 懂得，理解72、vt.& vi. 开始73、vt.& vi. 赢得,赢，获胜74、vt.喜欢75、许多76、游泳池77、足球场7A Unit 2 My day1、vt. 想要2、a. & ad. 最好（的）(good和well的最高级)3、a. 聪明的,伶俐的4、a. 忙的,忙碌的5、a. 每个的,每一 6、a. 许多的;大量的 ad.非常; 更加7、a. 准备好的8、a.& ad. 第一（的）; 首先 9、a.& ad.更好的; 更好地(good或well的比较级)10、a.关闭的;封闭的11、a.难的，困难的12、ad. 大概,也许13、ad. 两次;两倍 14、ad. 确实，完全（用于加强语气）;仅仅，只是15、ad. 一起，共同16、ad. 在外面17、adj. 课外的18、conj. 因为19、excl.(用于请求别人重复)什么，请再说一遍20、modal verb将, 将要21、modal verb应该,应当22、n. 报纸23、n. 部分,24、n. 成人，成年人25、n. 答案 vt.回答26、n. 地点,位置27、n. 活动28、n. 家庭作业29、n. 价格30、n. 理由31、n. 连环图画,32、n. 旅行,旅程 33、n. 模型,模特儿; 34、n. 区,地区35、n. 世界36、n. 图书馆37、n. 晚餐38、n. 问题39、n. 希望,愿望,40、n. 信41、n. 信息42、n. 星期,周43、n. 星期二44、n. 星期三45、n. 星期四46、n. 星期五47、n. 星期一48、n. 英特网，互联网49、n. 游泳者50、n. 种类51、n.电子邮件; 邮件52、n.享乐，乐趣;逗乐; a.有趣的53、prep. 除了...之外,不包括54、pron. & a. 两者;双方55、v. 睡觉,睡眠,56、vi. 说话,谈话;n.演讲;讲座57、vi.& n. 聊天,闲谈58、vi.& vt. 锻炼59、vi.& vt. 练习，操练60、vt. 不喜欢,厌恶; n. 厌恶的对象61、vt. 发送；运送62、vt. 花费（金钱、时间等）,度过63、vt. 使用64、vt. 组织65、彼此，互相66、期待；盼望67、醒过来；叫醒7A Unit 3 Let’s celebrate!1、《美猴王》2、a. 出色的，极好的3、a. 传统的4、a. 热的5、a. 特别的,特殊的6、a. 兴奋的7、a. 有趣的8、a. 自己的9、a.尖的；锋利的 10、ad. 为什么11、adj.冷的; 寒冷的12、conj. 当...的时候13、conj. 如果，假如14、conj.因此,所以15、Modal v 必须16、n. 八月; a. 威严的,尊严的17、n. 不招待就使坏18、n. 厨房19、n. 春天；春季20、n. 灯笼21、n. 地方22、n. 电影;胶卷23、n. 冬季,冬天24、n. 恶作剧25、n. 二月26、n. 方式，方法27、n. 服装,戏装28、n. 光,光线29、n. 鬼30、n. 会议，集会31、n. 火车,32、n. 假期,假日33、n. 节日34、n. 九月35、n. 卡片36、n. 蜡烛37、n. 脸38、n. 邻居39、n. 六月; 琼（女名）40、n. 米饭,稻；大米41、n. 面具42、n. 南瓜43、n. 七月44、n. 铅笔袋,铅笔盒45、n. 钱；货币46、n. 巧克力47、n. 切，割48、n. 秋季,秋天49、n. 日期50、n. 三月;51、n. 圣诞节52、n. 狮子53、n. 十二月54、n. 十一月55、n. 十月56、n. 食物，食品57、n. 四月58、n. 糖果59、n. 万圣节前夜（10月31日夜晚）60、n. 五一国际劳动节61、n. 五月; aux.可能,可以,祝愿62、n. 午夜63、n. 夏季,夏天64、n. 星期六65、n. 星期日66、n. 牙齿67、n. 一月68、n.& vt. 招待69、n.次数70、n.火鸡71、n.西方,西面72、n.烟火；烟花73、n.饮料; vt.& vi.喝,饮;喝酒74、n.月饼75、prep. 通过，靠，用（表示通过某种方式）76、prep.穿过,通过77、prep.作为，当作;像…… 78、v. 完成,结束79、vi. 钓鱼,捕鱼,80、vi. 发光,照耀，闪耀81、vi.& n.敲，击打攻击82、vt & vi. 庆祝83、vt. 把……叫做;给……命名84、vt. 给……涂色85、vt.& vi. 喊叫86、vt.给……穿衣服;n.服装87、端午节88、感恩节89、国庆节90、红包91、教师节92、六一儿童节93、元旦94、中秋节95、粽子7A Unit 4 Food1、a. 饥饿的2、a. 健康的,有益健康的3、a. 空闲的；自由的4、a. 疲劳的,累的5、a. 容易的,简单的6、a. 甜的; n. 糖果7、a. 小心的,仔细的8、a. 圆的,9、a. 重要的10、a.拔尖的，头等的; n.顶，顶部11、a.健康的，结实的12、ad. 从不；决不13、ad. 很少，不常14、ad.& a. 快15、ad.总体上说16、int.哇17、n. （猪、牛、羊等的）肉18、n. 饼干19、n. 长沙发20、n. 超级市场,超市21、n. 刀，餐刀22、n. 分数；点23、n. 故事24、n. 果汁;蔬菜汁25、n. 汉堡包26、n. 胡萝卜27、n. 花生28、n. 架子29、n. 健康,卫生,保健30、n. 卷心菜31、n. 卡,卡路里(热量单位)32、n. 可口可乐33、n. 篮球34、n. 零食35、n. 芒果36、n. 面包37、n. 面条38、n. 柠檬39、n. 牛奶40、n. 牛肉41、n. 瓶子42、n. 清单43、n. 人44、n. 日常饮食45、n. 生活方式46、n. 蔬菜47、n. 数量48、n. 水49、n. 水果50、n. 汤51、n. 糖52、n. 跳舞者，舞蹈演员53、n. 土豆，马铃薯54、n. 碗55、n. 维他命，维生素56、n. 问卷57、n. 西红柿58、n. 盐59、n. 运气60、n. 猪肉61、n. 祝贺62、n. 祖父；外祖父63、n.茶64、n.搭档，合作伙伴65、n.溜旱冰66、n.绵羊67、n.能量68、n.能量69、n.千克，公斤70、n.小包; （一）包71、n.一餐饭72、n.纸盒;牛奶盒;糖果盒73、prep. 像,像……一样74、prep. 在...前面75、prep. 在...之间76、prep.没有，不77、prep.少于78、v. 感觉,感到79、vi. 躺,卧；说谎80、vi.& vt.学习81、vt. 搬运,运输；携带82、vt. 保持83、vt. 买84、vt.& n. 需要,必需;85、vt.& vi. 改变;变化86、vt., vi & n. 计划,87、vt.讨厌，恨7A Unit 5 Going shopping1、a. & n. 灰色(的)2、a. 昂贵的3、a. 便宜的4、a. 大的5、a. 漂亮的，美丽的6、a. 贫穷的,可怜的7、a. 足够的8、a.高的9、a.年幼的；小的;少的10、ad. 相当，非常11、ad. 也12、ad. 已经13、ad.此刻,现在14、ad.但是15、n. （不干胶）贴纸16、n. 笔记;短信，便条;注解,注释17、n. 笔记本18、n. 冰淇淋19、n. 尺寸,大小20、n. 大卖场，大型购物中心 21、n. 地区,区域22、n. 店主；售货员23、n. 分钟24、n. 国家25、n. 夹子26、n. 家电商场27、n. 轮次28、n. 牛仔裤29、n. 裙子30、n. 书店31、n. 双,对,副32、n. 随身听33、n. 玩具熊34、n. 文具35、n. 靴,长筒靴36、n. 悠悠，溜溜球37、n. 折扣,打折38、n. 中心39、n. 主意,想法40、n.出租车41、n.出租车停靠站42、n.公共汽车车站43、n.钱包，皮夹子44、n.书写纸；稿纸；信纸45、n.相册46、n.校长47、prep. 在...外;ad. 在外面; 48、prep.& conj. 在...以前ad. 以前;49、prep.在...里面;ad.在里面50、pron.& ad. 更多,更加,更 51、pron.某事，某物52、v.与……相配53、vi. 等，等候54、vi. 哭,喊55、vi. 停留,逗留，呆56、vi.（鞋）合脚；（衣服）合身 57、vt. 捐赠58、vt. 募集59、vt. 邀请60、vt.& n. 拜访,访问;看望61、vt.& vi. 付钱；给……报酬62、vt.收集63、vt.值（多少钱）；花费64、不要紧。
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65、你的真挚的66、稍等片刻7A Unit 6 Fashion1、a. （人或服装）时髦的，帅的；聪明的2、a. 乏味的，无聊的3、a. 懒惰的4、a. 年轻的5、a. 轻的,6、a. 时髦的，现代的7、a. 适当的；相配的8、a. 舒服的，舒适的9、a. 重的,厚的;超出一般的10、a.& n.粉红色（的）11、a.酷的12、a.受欢迎的；流行的13、a.颜色艳丽的14、ad. 当然，行15、ad. 仍,还16、ad. 最后17、ad.后来,以后18、n. 材料19、n. 风格,式样20、n. 海报,招贴画21、n. 时装,时尚，风尚 22、n. 丝,绸23、n. 套装,一套衣服24、n.（软底）运动鞋25、n.表演；演出；节目26、n.短裤27、n.领带; 领结28、n.棉，棉布；棉花29、n.皮，皮革30、n.套头衫31、n.羊毛32、pron. 任何一个33、v.由…制成34、vt. & n.希望35、vt. 选择36、vt.& n. 设计
英文课前演讲。
三分钟左右，哲理故事或者笑话都可以
Who's More Polite? A fat man and a skinny man were arguing about who was the more polite. The skinny man said he was more polite because he always tipped his hat to ladies. But the fat man knew he was more courteous because, whenever he got up and offered his seat, two ladies could sit down. 谁更有礼貌
一个胖子和一个瘦子在争论谁更有礼貌。
瘦子说他更有礼貌，因为他经常对女士摘帽示意。
但是胖子认为他更有风度，因为无论什么时候他在车上给别人让座时，总有两位女士能坐下。
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Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979–22 January 2008) was an Australian television and film actor. After performing roles in Australian television and film during the , Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to develop his movie career. His work includes nineteen films, most notably 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), The Patriot (2000), (2001), A Knight's Tale (2001), Brokeback Mountain (2005), and The Dark Knight (2008). In addition to his acting, he produced and directed music videos and aspired to be a film director.For his portrayal of Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain, Ledger won the 2005 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and the 2006 Best Actor award from the Australian Film Institute and was nominated for the 2005 Academy Award for Best Actor as well as the 2006 Best Actor award from the BAFTA. Posthumously he shared the 2007 Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award with the rest of the ensemble cast, the director, and the casting director for the film, I'm Not There which was inspired by the life and songs of American singer-songwriter, Bob Dylan. In the film, Ledger portrayed a fictional actor named Robbie Clark, one of six characters embodying aspects of the iconic Dylan. He was nominated and won awards for his portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, a Best Actor International Award at the 2008 Australian Film Institute Awards, for which he became the first actor to win an award posthumously, and the 2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor and the 2009 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a motion picture.He died at the age of 28,[5][6] from an accidental toxic combination of prescription drugs. A few months before his death, Ledger had finished filming his penultimate performance, as the Joker in The Dark Knight. At the time of his death, on 22 January 2008, he had completed about half of his work performing the role of Tony in Terry Gilliam's forthcoming film Family and personal lifeHeath Ledger was born on 4 April 1979, in Perth, Western Australia, the son of Sally Ledger Bell (née Ramshaw), a French teacher, and Kim Ledger, a racing-car driver and mining engineer, whose family established and owned the Ledger Engineering Foundry.[25][26][27] The Sir Frank Ledger Charitable Trust is named after his great-grandfather.[25] Ledger attended Mary's Mount Primary School, in Gooseberry Hill,[28][29] and later Guildford Grammar School, where he had his first acting experiences, starring in a school production as Peter Pan at age 10.[6][25] His parents separated when he was 10 and divorced when he was 11.[30] Ledger's older sister, Kate, an actress and later a publicist, with whom he was very close, inspired his acting on stage, and his love of Gene Kelly inspired his successful choreography leading to Guildford Grammar's 60-member team's first all-boy victory at the Rock Eisteddfod Challenge.[25][31][32][33] Heath's and Kate's other siblings include two half-sisters, Ashleigh Bell (b. 1989), his mother's daughter with her second husband and his stepfather Roger Bell, and Olivia Ledger (b. 1997), his father's daughter with second wife and his stepmother Emma Brown.[34]Ledger was an avid chess player, winning Western Australia's junior chess championship at the age of 10.[35][36] As an adult, he often played with other chess enthusiasts at Washington Square Park.[37][38] Allan Scott's film adaptation of the chess-related 1983 novel The Queen's Gambit, by Walter Tevis, which at the time of his death he was planning both to perform in and to direct, would have been Ledger's first feature film as a director.[4][39]Among his most-notable romantic relationships, Ledger dated actress Heather Graham for several months in 2000 to 2001,[40] and he had a serious on-and-off-again long-term relationship with actress Naomi Watts, whom he met during the filming of Ned Kelly and with whom he lived at times from 2002 to 2004.[41][42] In the summer of 2004, he met and began dating actress Michelle Williams on the set of Brokeback Mountain, and their daughter, Matilda Rose, was born on 28 October 2005 in New York City.[43] Matilda Rose's godparents are Ledger's Brokeback co-star Jake Gyllenhaal and Williams' Dawson's Creek castmate Busy Philipps.[44][45] Problems with paparazzi in Australia prompted Ledger to sell his residence in Bronte, New South Wales and move to the United States, where he shared an apartment with Williams, in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, from 2005 to 2007.[5][46][47][48][49] In September 2007, Williams' father, Larry Williams, confirmed to Sydney's Daily Telegraph that Ledger and Williams had ended their relationship.[50] After his break up with Williams, in late 2007 and early 2008, the tabloid press and other public media linked Ledger romantically with supermodels Helena Christensen and Gemma Ward and with former child star, actress .[51][52][53][54]CareerAfter sitting for early graduation exams at 16, Ledger left school to pursue an acting career.[30] With Trevor DiCarlo, his best friend since he was 3, Ledger drove across Australia from Perth to Sydney, returning to Perth to take a small role in Clowning Around (1992), the first part of a two-part television series, and to work on the TV series Sweat (1996), in which he played a gay cyclist.[25] From 1993 to 1997, Ledger also had parts in the Perth television series Ship to Shore (1993); in the short-lived Fox Broadcasting Company fantasy-drama Roar (1997); in Home and Away (1997), one of Australia's most successful television shows; and in the Australian movie Blackrock (1997), his feature film debut.[25] In 1999, he starred in the teen comedy 10 Things I Hate About You and in the acclaimed Australian crime movie Two Hands, directed by Gregor Jordan.[25]2000sFrom 2000 to 2005, he starred in supporting roles as Gabriel Martin, the eldest son of Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson), in The Patriot (2000), and as Sonny Grotowski, the son of Hank Grotowski (Billy Bob Thornton), in (2000); and in leading or title roles in A Knight's Tale (2001), The Four Feathers (2002), The Order (2003), Ned Kelly (2003), Casanova (2005), The Brothers Grimm (2005), and Lords of Dogtown (2005).[2] In 2001, he won a ShoWest Award as Male Star of Tomorrow.[55]Ledger received Best Actor of 2005 awards from both the New York Film Critics Circle and the San Francisco Film Critics Circle for his performance in Brokeback Mountain,[56][57] in which he plays Wyoming ranch hand Ennis Del Mar, who has a love affair with aspiring rodeo rider Jack Twist, played by Jake Gyllenhaal.[58] He also received a nomination for Golden Globe Best Actor in a Drama and a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actor for this performance,[59][60] making him, at age 26, the ninth youngest nominee for a Best Actor Oscar. In The New York Times review of the film, critic Stephen Holden writes: Both Mr. Ledger and Mr. Gyllenhaal make this anguished love story physically palpable. Mr. Ledger magically and mysteriously disappears beneath the skin of his lean, sinewy character. It is a great screen performance, as good as the best of Marlon Brando and Sean Penn.[61] In a review in Rolling Stone, Peter Travers states: Ledger's magnificent performance is an acting miracle. He seems to tear it from his insides. Ledger doesn't just know how Ennis moves, speaks and listens; he knows how he breathes. To see him inhale the scent of a shirt hanging in Jack's closet is to take measure of the pain of love lost.[62]After Brokeback Mountain, Ledger costarred with fellow Australian Abbie Cornish in the 2006 Australian film Candy, an adaptation of the 1998 novel Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction, as young heroin addicts in love attempting to break free of their addiction, whose mentor is played by renowned Australian actor Geoffrey Rush; for his performance as sometime poet Dan, Ledger was nominated for three Best Actor awards, including one of the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards 2006, which both Cornish and Rush won in their categories. A couple of weeks after the release of Candy, Ledger was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[63]As one of six actors embodying different aspects of the life of Bob Dylan in the 2007 film I'm Not There, directed by Todd Haynes, Ledger won praise for his portrayal of 'Robbie [Clark],' a moody, counter-culture actor who represents the romanticist side of Dylan, but says accolades are never his motivation.[64] Posthumously, on 23 February 2008, he shared the 2007 Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award with the rest of the film's ensemble cast, its director, and its casting director.[3]In his penultimate film performance, Ledger plays the Joker in The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan, the sequel to the 2005 film Batman Begins, first released, in Australia, on 16 July 2008, nearly six months after his death. While still working on the film, in London, Ledger told Sarah Lyall, in their interview published in the New York Times on 4 November 2007, that he viewed The Dark Knight's Joker as a psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy.[65] To prepare for the role, Ledger told Empire, I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented with voices — it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh. I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath — someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts; after reiterating his view of the character as just an absolute sociopath, a cold-blooded, mass-murdering clown, he added that Nolan had given him free rein to create the role, which he found fun, because there are no real boundaries to what the Joker would say or do. Nothing intimidates him, and everything is a big joke.[66][67][68] For his work in The Dark Knight, Ledger won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, his family accepting it on his behalf, as well as numerous other posthumous awards including the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, which Christopher Nolan accepted for him.At the time of his death, on 22 January 2008, Ledger had completed about half of the work for his final film performance as Tony in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.[17][23][24]Directorial workLedger had aspirations to become a film director and had made some music videos, which director Todd Haynes praised highly in his tribute to Ledger upon accepting the ISP Robert Altman Award, which Ledger posthumously shared, on 23 February 2008.[3]In 2006 Ledger directed music videos for the title track on Australian artist N'fa's CD debut solo album Cause an Effect[69] and for the single Seduction Is Evil ( Hot).[70][71]Later that year, Ledger inaugurated a new record label, Masses Music, with singer Ben Harper and also directed a music video for Harper's song Morning Yearning.[65][72]At a news conference at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, Ledger spoke of his desire to make a documentary film about the British singer-songwriter Nick Drake, who died in 1974, at the age of 26, from an overdose of an antidepressant.[73] Ledger created and acted in a music video set to Drake's recording of the singer's 1974 song about depression Black Eyed Dog–a title inspired by Winston Churchill’s descriptive term for depression (black dog);[74] it was shown publicly only twice, first at the Bumbershoot Festival, in Seattle, Washington, held from 1 September to 3 September 2007; and secondly as part of A Place To Be: A Celebration of Nick Drake, with its screening of Their Place: Reflections On Nick Drake, a series of short filmed homages to Nick Drake (including Ledger's), sponsored by American Cinematheque, at the Grauman's Egyptian Theatre, in Hollywood, on 5 October 2007.[75] After Ledger's death, his music video for Black Eyed Dog was shown on the Internet and excerpted in news clips distributed via YouTube.[73][76][77][78]He was working with Scottish screenwriter and producer Allan Scott on an adaptation of the 1983 novel The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis, for which he was planning both to act and to direct, which would have been his first feature film as a director.[3][4][39][79]Ledger's final directorial work, in which he shot two music videos before his death, will be released in 2009.[80] The music videos were completed for Modest Mouse and Grace Woodroofe.[81] The videos include an animated feature for Modest Mouse's song, King Rat, and the Woodroofe video for her cover of David Bowie's Quicksand.[82]Press controversiesLedger's relationship with the press in Australia was sometimes turbulent, and it led to his relocating to New York City.[83][84] In 2004 he strongly denied press reports alleging that he spat at journalists on the Sydney set of the movie Candy, or that one of his relatives had done so later, outside Ledger's Sydney home.[83][84] On 13 January 2006, Several members of the paparazzi retaliated ... squirting Ledger and Williams with water pistols on the red carpet at the Sydney premiere of Brokeback Mountain.[85][86]After his performance on stage at the 2005 Screen Actors Guild Awards, when he had giggled in presenting Brokeback Mountain as a nominee for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, the Los Angeles Times referred to his presentation as an apparent gay spoof.[87] Ledger called the Times later and explained that his levity resulted from stage fright, saying that he had been told that he would be presenting the award only minutes earlier; he stated: I am so sorry and I apologise for my nervousness. I would be absolutely horrified if my stage fright was misinterpreted as a lack of respect for the film, the topic and for the amazing filmmakers.[88][89]Ledger was quoted in January 2006 in Melbourne's Herald Sun as saying that he heard that West Virginia had banned Brokeback Mountain, which it had not; actually, a cinema in Utah had banned the film.[84] He had also referred mistakenly to West Virginia's having had lynchings as recently as the 1980s, but state scholars disputed his statement, observing that, whereas lynchings did occur in Alabama as recently as 1981, according to the director of state archives and history quoted in The Charleston Gazette, The last documented lynching in West Virginia took place in Lewisburg in 1931.[90]Sleep difficulties and other work-related health issuesIn their New York Times interview, published on 4 November 2007, Ledger told Sarah Lyall that his recently-completed roles in I'm Not There (2007) and The Dark Knight (2008) had taken a toll on his ability to sleep: Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. ... I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.[65] At that time, he told Lyall that he had taken two Ambien pills, after taking just one had not sufficed, and those left him in a stupor, only to wake up an hour later, his mind still racing.[65]Prior to his return to New York from his last film assignment, in London, in January 2008, while he was apparently suffering from some kind of respiratory illness, he reportedly complained to his co-star Christopher Plummer that he was continuing to have difficulty sleeping and taking pills to help with that problem: Confirming earlier reports that Ledger hadn't been feeling well on set, Plummer says, 'we all caught colds because we were shooting outside on horrible, damp nights. But Heath's went on and I don't think he dealt with it immediately with the antibiotics.... [sic] I think what he did have was the walking pneumonia.' [...] On top of that, 'He was saying all the time, dammit, I can't sleep...[sic] and he was taking all these pills [to help him] [sic].' [91]In talking with Interview magazine after his death, Ledger's former fiancée Michelle Williams also confirmed reports the actor had experienced trouble sleeping. 'For as long as I'd known him, he had bouts with insomnia,' she said. 'He had too much energy. His mind was turning, turning turning always turning.' [92]DeathAt about 2:45 (EST), on 22 January 2008, Ledger was found unconscious in his bed by his housekeeper, Teresa Solomon, and his masseuse, Diana Wolozin, in his fourth-floor loft apartment at 421 Broome Street in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan.[5][6]According to the police, Wolozin, who had arrived early for a 3:00 appointment with Ledger, called Ledger's friend, actress , for help. , who was in California, directed a New York City private security guard to go to the scene. At 3:26 , [fewer] than 15 minutes after Wolozin first saw him in bed and only a few moments after first calling Olsen and then calling her a second time to express her fears that Ledger was dead, Wolozin telephoned 9-1-1 to say that Mr. Ledger was not breathing. At the urging of the 9-1-1 operator, Wolozin administered CPR, which was unsuccessful in reviving him.[93]Emergency medical technicians (EMT) arrived seven minutes later, at 3:33 p.m. (at almost exactly the same moment as a private security guard summoned by Ms. Olsen), but were also unable to revive him.[5][93][94] At 3:36 p.m., Ledger was pronounced dead and his body removed from the apartment.[5][93]
