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The Big Picture Winning an Academy Award is undoubtedly the highest honor any actor, director, or craftsperson can receive in their career. For Robert Downey Jr., an Oscar is the ultimate capstone of a career defined by highs and lows. The Oscar statuette often recognizes not just a performance, in Downey's case, his against-type turn as the vindictive Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer, but an entire career, and his career is a dramatic arc worthy of a Shakespearean drama.
Release Date July 21, 2023 Director Christopher Nolan Cast Cillian Murphy , Matt Damon , Robert Downey Jr. , Emily Blunt , Alden Ehrenreich , Scott Grimes , Jason Clarke , Tony Goldwyn Runtime 180 minutes Robert Downey Jr.'s Career is Defined by Highs and Lows Robert Downey Jr.'s win for Best Supporting Actor for Oppenheimer was not much of a surprise heading into Oscar night, but it does not lessen the credibility and significance of his accomplishment.
How Have Other 'Saturday Night Live' Cast Members Fared at the Academy Awards? Close Most actors revere the art of comedic performance. Making someone laugh is arguably the most difficult task that any actor can be assigned, yet rarely does the most prestigious artistic awards body in the world, the Academy, honor the work of comic actors.
Additionally, Saturday Night Live talent was represented by the Academy in three other instances besides acting. The inaugural season of SNL is packed with legendary icons, including Murray, Aykroyd, Chase, John Belushi, and Gilda Radner, but the most forgotten cast member is George Coe, who only primarily appeared uncredited throughout his lone season. Pre-SNL, Coe received an Oscar nomination for Best Live Action Short for co-directing The Dove, a 1968 parody of the films of Ingmar Bergman.
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