Amy Madigan’s historic Oscars 2026 win echoes Heath Ledger’s Joker

On Sunday night, Weapons star Amy Madigan won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at the 2026 Academy Awards. The 75-year-old actor — long celebrated for films like Love Child, Alamo Bay, Field of Dreams, and Gone Baby Gone, not to mention the best HBO show ever according to me, Carnivàle — won her first Oscar for a performance that few would have predicted could go all the way even last August: the magic-wielding, makeup-abusing villainess Aunt Gladys.