Robert Downey Jr. wins his first ever Oscar as he's awarded Best Supporting Actor
Robert Downey Jr. was able to beat out some very stiff competition to go home with his first ever Oscar.
You can watch his acceptance speech below:
For anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock the past 20 years, you will likely have seen Robert Downey Jr. being a playboy, philanthropist and billionaire genius on our screens as Iron Man/Tony Stark.
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However, following his death in Endgame (no spoiler alert because, well, it was five years ago), the actor has shown he is still able to produce captivating performances in other films.
Sure, he has had some duds... looking at you Dolittle, but the man has been dedicated to his craft for over 40 years and has finally won one of the most coveted awards.
Beating out Mark Ruffallo, Robert De Niro, Sterling K. Brown and Ryan Gosling, Downey Jr. was able to leave the Oscars with the Best Supporting Actor award for his work in Christopher Nolan’s intense biopic, Oppenheimer.
During his acceptance speech, Downey Jr. filled it with jokes and jibes and even poked fun at himself in true charismatic fashion.
Playing former Atomic Energy Commission chairman Lewis Strauss, Downey Jr. brought an intensity that matched Cillian Murphy’s Robert Oppenheimer, a very difficult job considering his track record for brilliant performances as a lead.
Talking about playing the role, Downey Jr has said he became obsessed with the character and it is no question this obsession played into how well he played Strauss.
Speaking to W Magazine, he said: “There have been three times in my career when I became completely obsessed with the possibility of playing a role.
“First time was Chaplin. Second time was Tony Stark, in Iron Man.
“And the third time - I got the trifecta, and you're lucky if this happens a couple of times - was with Lewis Strauss, for Oppenheimer.
“I knew a little bit about my character because I'm kind of a Cold War enthusiast. I don't know why I've been obsessed with it.
“I think that, sadly, that period informs where we are nowadays in the world. I knew that Strauss was involved in the development of the proximity fuse and that he headed up the Atomic Energy Commission.
“I didn't really know about [his] rivalry with Oppenheimer. But clearly, after 20 minutes into reading the script, I realized that [it] would be thematic."
And that performance is one of the reasons why the film was so highly rated by both fans and critics.
The film maintains a score of 8.4/10 on IMDB and an even better Tomatoemeter score of 93 percent and audience score of 91 percent.
Here are all the winners so far:
Best supporting actress
Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks - The Color Purple
America Ferrera - Barbie
Jodie Foster - Nyad
Da'Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers - WINNER
Best animated short
Letter to a Pig
Ninety-Five Senses
Our Uniform
Pachyderme
War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko - WINNER
Best animated feature
The Boy and the Heron - WINNER
Elemental
Nimona
Robot Dreams
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best original screenplay
Anatomy of a Fall - WINNER
The Holdovers
Maestro
May December
Past Lives
Best adapted screenplay
American Fiction - WINNER
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Best make-up and hairstyling
Golda
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things - WINNER
Society of the Snow
Best production design
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things - WINNER
Best costume design
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things - WINNER
Best international feature
Io Capitano
Perfect Days
Society of the Snow
The Teachers' Lounge
The Zone of Interest - WINNER
Best supporting actor
Sterling K Brown - American Fiction
Robert De Niro - Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr - Oppenheimer - WINNER
Ryan Gosling - Barbie
Mark Ruffalo - Poor Things
Best visual effects
The Creator
Godzilla Minus One - WINNER
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon
Best film editing
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best documentary short
The ABCs of Book Banning
The Barber of Little Rock
Island In Between
The Last Repair Shop
Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó
Best documentary feature
Bobi Wine: The People's President
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
To Kill a Tiger
20 Days in Mariupol
Best live action short
The After
Invincible
Knight of Fortune
Red, White and Blue
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Best cinematography
El Conde
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best sound
The Creator
Maestro
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest
Best original score
American Fiction
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best original song
'The Fire Inside' - Flamin' Hot (Diane Warren)
'I'm Just Ken' - Barbie (Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt)
'It Never Went Away' - American Symphony (Jon Batiste, Dan Wilson)
'Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)' - Killers of the Flower Moon (Scott George)
'What Was I Made For?' - Barbie (Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell)
Best director
Anatomy of a Fall - Justine Triet
Killers of the Flower Moon - Martin Scorsese
Oppenheimer - Christopher Nolan
Poor Things - Yorgos Lanthimos
The Zone of Interest - Jonathan Glazer
Best actor
Bradley Cooper - Maestro
Colman Domingo - Rustin
Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction
Best actress
Annette Bening - Nyad
Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Huller - Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan - Maestro
Emma Stone - Poor Things
Best picture
American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Topics: Robert Downey Jr, Celebrity, Film and TV, Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan
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