More than 30 years after first being nominated for Chaplin, Robert Downey Jr. has brought home his very first Oscar
After what’s been a very long and winding road, Robert Downey Jr. has just won his first Oscar—more than 30 years after picking up his first nomination for the honor. Tonight, Downey won in the Best Supporting Actor category for his work in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, where he played Rear Admiral Lewis Strauss—eventually revealed to be the closest thing Nolan’s biopic has to a conventional villain.
Downey—who was previously nominated for Best Actor for Chaplin in 1993, and Best Supporting Actor for the Ben Stiller comedy Tropic Thunder in 2009— won out over a pretty stacked field of competitors: Sterling K. Brown, Ryan Gosling, Robert De Niro, and Mark Ruffalo were all in contention, giving performances that ranged from deeply hilarious to deeply chilling. In his speech, Downey joked about Tim Robbins’ presentation flub and about his strange upbringing.
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