Robert Downey Jr.wins the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor at the96th Academy Awards. Addressing the audience, the actor said:
I’d like to thank my terrible childood and the Academy — in that order.
He went on to thank his wife, Susan, of whom he noted, “She found me as a snarling rescue pet and loved me back to life. That’s why I’m here, thank you." He then continued:
“Here’s my little secret, I needed this job more than it needed me. Chris (Nolan) knew it, Emma (Thomas) made sure she surrounded me with one of the great casts and crews of all time — Emily, Cillian, Matt Damon, Blunt — it was fantastic and I stand here a before you a better man because of it. What we do is meaningful, and the stuff we decide to make is important.
“Back to my publicist, my agent Phillip Raskind, and Andrew Dunlap, and my den mother, Joy Fehily, thank you very much. I’m going to thank my stylist in case no one else does. Thanks, Erika, thank you very much. And I’m just going to say this, my entertainment lawyer, Tom Hansen, of 40 years, half of which he tried getting me insured and bailing me out of the hoosegow — thanks Bro!”
This year saw Downey Jr. up against several of his fellow Hollywood icons, including Robert De Niro for his performance as William King Hale in Martin Scorsese’sKillers of the Flower Moon; Ryan Gosling as Ken inBarbie; Mark Ruffalo for his performance as Duncan Wedderburn inPoor Things; and Sterling K. Brown for his role inAmerican Fictionas Clifford “Cliff” Ellison.
Oppenheimer
Written, directed, and produced by Christopher Nolan,Oppenheimerfeatures an all-star cast with Downey Jr. starring as Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Led by Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the rest of the stacked cast includes Emily Blunt as his wife, biologist and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, Oscar winner Matt Damon as General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, Academy Award nominee Florence Pugh as psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie plays theoretical physicist Edward Teller, Michael Angarano plays Robert Serber and Josh Hartnett as pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence.
Oppenheimeralso stars Oscar winner Rami Malek and reunites Nolan and eight-time Oscar nominated actor, writer, and filmmaker Kenneth Branagh. The rest of the cast includes Dane DeHaan (Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets), Dylan Arnold (Halloweenfranchise), David Krumholtz (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story), and Matthew Modine (The Dark Knight Rises).
Robert Downey Jr. Thanks Christopher Nolan for Resurrecting His Career After the MCU
Downey Jr., who has been nominated for Oscars twice before, is now best recognized as Tony Stark, aka Iron Man in the MCU. The actor has since heaped praise onOppenheimerdirector Christopher Nolan forresurrecting his careerfrom “dwindling credibility” after playing Stark for more than a decade.
Robert Downey Jr. Is Grateful He Didn’t Win The Oscar When Nominated At 27
Robert Downey Jr. is up for an Oscar for Oppenheimer and is reflecting on his first nomination for 1993’s Chaplin.
You can check out the official synopsis forOppenheimerbelow.
“During World War II, Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. appoints physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spend years developing and designing the atomic bomb. Their work comes to fruition on August 18, 2025, as they witness the world’s first nuclear explosion, forever changing the course of history.”
You can now purchaseOppenheimeron Ultra HD Blu-ray, regular Blu-ray and DVD, and stream on Peacock, or rent and buy the movie digitally on Prime Video or Apple TV.
