As January 22nd approaches, it will mark the one year anniversary of Heath Ledger's death and also ironically on the same day, the Academy Award nominations will be announced where in all likelihood, Ledger will get a posthumous Oscar nomination for his portrayal as the Joker in The Dark Knight. Entertainment Weekly has featured a 28 page spotlight with photos on Heath Ledger's career, along with a number of touching and interesting stories from some of the friends and colleagues that Ledger has worked with and known thoughout his short film career and life. Below are some excerpts and highlights from the EW tribute. The full EW article (http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20252991,00.html) also includes some interesting new details and never before known info about Ledger from his agent Steve Alexander. - - - - - - Heath Ledger: The Untold Story The surprising portrait that emerges offers new insight into this complicated artist, an actor who stayed true to his adventurous instincts while attempting to navigate the perilous waters of stardom. -- Entertainment Weekly Gil Junger, director, 10 Things: Heath came in to read, and he exuded a sexuality so uncommon for a man of that age. As soon as he left, I stood up and said, ''Ladies, I have never wanted to sleep with a man, but if I had to, that would be the man. Please hire him immediately.'' Agent, Steve Alexander: We were sitting in a marketing meeting at Sony, and they were talking about how they were going to build the campaign for the movie, how they're going to hit this city and that city, and they'd like him to go on a world tour. They had this whole campaign — ''He will rock you'' — because Heath looked like a rock star. Obviously it was a great opportunity, but Heath saw it as a lot of pressure. He was scared to death. He walked out of the meeting and ran into the bathroom. He was afraid he was being built up too quickly, and that if he was put on a pedestal there was nowhere to go. I don't think he was mature enough at that moment to understand what he wanted from his career, but that just didn't feel right to him. Sony asked me to come over and read the script for Spider-Man. It was going to be a really cool tentpole movie. But as soon as I said Spider-Man, Heath said, ''It's not for me. I would be taking someone else's dream away.'' He never second-guessed his decisions or said ''what if'' — which was amazing, because I certainly did! Monster's Ball definitely did some heavy lifting for him. A lot of important filmmakers and studio executives saw him in a different way after that movie. It achieved exactly what we wanted it to in terms of stripping away the shininess of a leading man.