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Ledger was never comfortable with the idea of stardom; he was the first choice to play "Spider-Man" but he turned it down. And now we're celebrating his role in another comic-book adaptation that he did not live to see become the second highest-grossing film of all time. He also had mixed feelings about acting awards. According to his friends, he was relieved when he did not win the Oscar in 2005 for "Brokeback Mountain" because he felt encumbered by the expectations that come with success. Still, it seems only right to pay tribute to what the young actor was able to accomplish in such a tragically short period of time.