SYDNEY (Reuters) – The emotional parents of the late Heath Ledger welcomed his best supporting actor Golden Globe with bittersweet pride, and the actor's mother said the award was likely to be given to his daughter Matilda.
Ledger's father, Kim, told Australian media that he felt "elated, fantastic" as he watched Monday's awards ceremony from his home in Perth, Australia.
"Absolutely fantastic, bittersweet but feeling great," Kim Ledger said.
"A standing ovation breaks you up," he said, referring to the ovation Ledger's win received from the star-studded audience. "That really goes to the heart, you know."
In an interview with People magazine, Ledger's mother, Sally Bell, also said the family was "bursting with pride" over the critical recognition of her son's performance as the Joker in Batman thriller "The Dark Knight."
"I should imagine that eventually it will be going to Matilda," Bell said of the award. "At this stage she is only so young, but down the track she will have all these things. It will belong to her because she is part of him."
Ledger's Globe expected to go to daughter Matilda
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