After his performance on stage at the 2005 Screen Actors Guild Awards , when he had giggled in presenting '' Brokeback Mountain '' as a nominee for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture , the '' Los Angeles Times '' referred to his presentation as an " apparent gay spoof " . Ledger called the '' Times '' later and explained that his levity resulted from stage fright , saying that he had been told that he would be presenting the award only minutes earlier ; he stated : " I am so sorry and I apologise for my nervousness . I would be absolutely horrified if my stage fright was misinterpreted as a lack of respect for the film , the topic and for the amazing filmmakers . " Ledger was quoted in January 2006 in Melbourne 's '' Herald Sun '' as saying that he heard that West Virginia had banned '' Brokeback Mountain '' , which it had not ; actually , a cinema in Utah had banned the film . He had also referred mistakenly to West Virginia 's having had lynchings as recently as the 1980s , but state scholars disputed his statement , observing that , whereas lynchings did occur in Alabama as recently as 1981 , according to " the director of state archives and history " quoted in '' The Charleston Gazette '' , " The last documented lynching in West Virginia took place in Lewisburg in 1931 . " In their '' New York Times '' interview , published on 4 November 2007 , Ledger told Sarah Lyall that his recently completed roles in '' I 'm Not There '' ( 2007 ) and '' The Dark Knight '' ( 2008 ) had taken a toll on his ability to sleep : " Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night . ... I could n't stop thinking . My body was exhausted , and my mind was still going . " At that time , he told Lyall that he had taken two Ambien pills , after taking just one had not sufficed , and those left him in " a stupor , only to wake up an hour later , his mind still racing "
2005 Screen Actors Guild Awards
12th Screen Actors Guild Awards
Heath Ledger