Last night, when Heath Ledger won Best Supporting Actor for The Dark Knight, a callous part of my inner monologue thought: well, now I can shut down the Heath Ledger specialty category.

Also this weekend, I was Twittered the good news: The Dark Knight has cross the $1 Billion dollar threshold for total gross last Friday, making it the fourth highest-grossing film of all time, behind Titanic ($1.84 billion), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ($1.12 billion) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest ($1.07 billion). Eating Batman’s dust is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone with $974.7 million.

Heath Ledger brought Oscar-caliber work to the franchise, and Christopher Nolan delivered one of the superhero movies we’ll be talking about for a decade.