Robert Downey Jr. simply included another prize to his collection. The Oppenheimer star took home the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars, finishing his awards-season sweep. (The star likewise won a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Critics' Choice Movie Award.) He vanquished some stiff competitors from his fellow candidates: Sterling K. Brown (American FictionRobert De Niro (Killers of the Flower MoonRyan Gosling (Barbieand Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things. Tonight's win likewise marks Downey Jr.'s first-ever Academy Award.
“I ‘d like to thank my horrible youth, and the Academy, because order,” Downey Jr. joked in his approval speech. “Here's my little trick: I required this task more than it required me.” He likewise thanked his partner of practically 20 years, Susan Downey Jr., for her assistance. Messi, our preferred canine from Anatomy of a Fall, put his paws together for the star.
In OppenheimerDowney Jr. played Lewis Strauss, who was an initial member of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and a political challenger of J. Robert Oppenheimer. In the movie, Strauss honestly challenges Oppenheimer's previous ties to Communism and continues to promote for the hydrogen bomb. “I had a previous reasonable understanding of Strauss due to the fact that I was amazed with the mechanics of warfare, especially in the Pacific theater in World War II,” Downey Jr. informed Vulture last summer season. “I challenged a bit the Mozart-Salieri of all of it. I stated, I'm unsure in some methods that Strauss isn't a bit the hero here, which sort of raised an eyebrow.”
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Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer
The previous Marvel star likewise was the butt of a couple of jokes throughout Jimmy Kimmel's opening monologue. “He's so good-looking and gifted, he's won every award there is to win,” Kimmel stated. “And is that an approval speech in your pocket or do you simply have an extremely rectangle-shaped penis?” Enthusiastically, the star was an excellent sport.
Downey Jr. was chosen for Best Supporting Actor in 2009, for his function as Kirk Lazarus in Tropic ThunderHe was likewise chosen for Best Actor in 1993 for Chaplin. Downey Jr. lastly took home the little golden guy tonight, thanks to Oppenheimer‘s awards-show supremacy. The Christopher Nolan-directed movie is likewise chosen for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), Best Supporting Actress (Emily Blunt), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup & & Hairstyling, Best Production Design, Best Sound, and Best Original Score.
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