Christopher Nolan honored his “dear friend,” the late Heath Ledger, when he accepted the award for Best Director — Motion Picture on the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday.
The “Oppenheimer” director, in a shifting second throughout his acceptance speech, started by noting that the one time he’d been on the ceremony’s stage earlier than was when he accepted Ledger’s posthumous award win within the Best Supporting Actor — Motion Picture class.
Ledger, who died from an unintended overdose in 2008, gained the award for his function as Joker within the Nolan-directed movie “The Dark Knight.”
Nolan, who mirrored on the late actor’s “incredible place” within the historical past of cinema in his speech on the time, informed the gang at this yr’s ceremony that the speech was “complicated and challenging” for him.
“And in the middle of speaking, I glanced up and Robert Downey Jr. caught my eye and gave me a look of love and support,” mentioned Nolan as he pointed to Downey within the crowd.
“[It’s] the same look he’s giving me now, the same love and support he’s shown so many people in our community after so many years.”
Nolan added that he thought it could be “simpler” to simply accept the Best Director award for himself earlier than realizing that he may solely settle for the accolade on behalf of others.
“As directors, we bring people together and we try to get them to give their best,” mentioned the director earlier than giving shoutouts to others concerned in “Oppenheimer,” the highest-grossing biopic of all time.
You can take a look at extra of Nolan’s speech under.
