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Topics: Oscars, Robert Downey Jr, TV and Film
Joe Harker
Topics: Oscars, Robert Downey Jr, TV and Film
Robert Downey Jr has picked up the Best Supporting Actor award at tonight's Oscars.
It's a case of third time lucky for the actor after he was first nominated for Best Actor all the way back in 1993 for his leading role in the film Chaplin about the legendary filmmaker.
He then picked up a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance as a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude in Tropic Thunder, though that year when Heath Ledger posthumously took the award for his role as The Joker in The Dark Knight.
This time around his casting as Lewis Strauss for Oppenheimer has earned him a nomination and finally that win more than 30 years after his first Oscar nomination.
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His performance in Oppenheimer, as the antagonistic politician who ultimately comes to feud with the scientist, was hailed by many as a career high, not least his fellow stars.
Cillian Murphy said it was an 'extraordinary experience' to work with Downey Jr and called him 'the most unpredictably brilliant actor' he'd worked with.
Murphy said: "A lot of the scenes I have with Downey, it was quite loose and quite improvisational. I mean, acting with him was just extraordinary.
"He's just electrifying, the most available engaged, present, unpredictably brilliant actor I've ever worked with."
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The actor paid that compliment right back to his co-star by saying he'd 'never witnessed a greater sacrifice by a lead actor in my career' than the one Murphy gave for Oppenheimer.
There have been compliments all round for the performances in Oppenheimer, but it's really no surprise that that Downey Jr has finally ended up walking away with an Academy Award for his turn in the film.
Throughout the film we follow Strauss almost as much as we do Oppenheimer as their relationship falls apart and Downey Jr portrays the man's obsession with discovering what Oppenheimer and Einstein might have said about him.
While Cillian Murphy leads the cast of Oppenheimer, Robert Downey Jr gives as good as he gets in their scenes together, with the audience coming away as the true winner.
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Downey Jr's win could herald a slew of awards for Oppenheimer, as the movie has been nominated for plenty of Oscars but until now has not picked up any gongs in its many categories.
That's not to say it won't win many more tonight, but there are plenty of Oscars to go around.
Here are all the winners so far and all the nominations:
Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer
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Danielle Brooks - The Color Purple
America Ferrera - Barbie
Jodie Foster - Nyad
Da'Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers - WINNER
Letter to a Pig
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Ninety-Five Senses
Our Uniform
Pachyderme
War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko - WINNER
The Boy and the Heron - WINNER
Elemental
Nimona
Robot Dreams
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Anatomy of a Fall - WINNER
The Holdovers
Maestro
May December
Past Lives
American Fiction - WINNER
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Golda
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things - WINNER
Society of the Snow
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things - WINNER
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things - WINNER
Io Capitano
Perfect Days
Society of the Snow
The Teachers' Lounge
The Zone of Interest - WINNER
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
The Creator
Godzilla Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The ABCs of Book Banning
The Barber of Little Rock
Island In Between
The Last Repair Shop
Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó
Bobi Wine: The People's President
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
To Kill a Tiger
20 Days in Mariupol
The After
Invincible
Knight of Fortune
Red, White and Blue
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
El Conde
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Creator
Maestro
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest
American Fiction
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
'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)
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
Bradley Cooper - Maestro
Colman Domingo - Rustin
Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction
Annette Bening - Nyad
Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Huller - Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan - Maestro
Emma Stone - Poor Things
American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest