Robert Downey Jr. has won his first Oscar. It comes three decades after his first Academy Award nomination. Downey won on Sunday for best supporting actor for “Oppenheimer,” the lead Academy Awards nominee with 13 nods. It was his third career Oscar nomination and second in the supporting actor category. Downey won for his performance as Rear Adm.
It was the third career Oscar nomination for a veteran actor known as one of Hollywood’s most versatile performers but before Sunday had never won an Academy Award. He was nominated in 1993 for best actor for “Chaplin” and in 2008 for best supporting actor in “Tropic Thunder.”dive into the development and fallout of the atomic bomb during World War II, led the Academy Awards with 13 nominations.
Downey beat Sterling K. Brown for “American Fiction,” Ryan Gosling for “Barbie,” Mark Ruffalo for “Poor Things” and Robert De Niro for “Killers of the Flower Moon.” The win solidified Downey’s frontrunner status this awards season. He also took home the top honor for supporting actor at the Golden Globes, BAFTA Film Awards, SAG Awards and Critics Choice Awards.At 83, filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki earns historic Oscar for ‘The Boy and the Heron’
Downey has been open about his past struggles with drug addiction. He revealed in his 2022 documentary “Sr.,” which pays tribute to his filmmaker father, that he was addicted to drugs by age 8. A series of arrests for drug-related charges and a year in prison followed Downey’s first Oscar nod 30 years ago, when he was 28.“I was young and crazy,” he said on “The View.” “It would have put me under the impression that I was on the right track.”
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