Robert Downey Jr. is finally an Oscar winner. The 58-year-old “Oppenheimer” star took home the Best Supporting Actor Oscar at the 96th Academy Awardslive from the Dolby Theater in LA on Sunday.
Downey portrayed Lewis Strauss in the Christopher Nolan-directed film: a businessman who played a big role in the development of the atomic bomb and later became a political rival of J.
Robert Oppenheimer (played by Cillian Murphy).“Oppenheimer” led the 2024 Oscar nominations with 13 nods, followed by “Poor Things” with 11.
The film’s box office rival, “Barbie,” was up for eight golden statues. Downey is a two-time Oscar nominee, losing his first Best Actor nod for “Chaplin” to Al Pacino for “Scent of a Woman” in 1993.
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