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Robert Downey Jr has won his first ever Oscars award

Robert Downey Jr has won his first ever Oscars award

It was third time lucky after his appearance in Oppenheimer

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.

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.

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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."

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.

It's no surprise that he won.
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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.

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:

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

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

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Topics: Oscars, Robert Downey Jr, TV and Film