Another trophy has recently been added to Robert Downey Jr.‘s collection. The Oppenheimer actor finished his awards season sweep with the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. (The actor also received awards from the Screen Actors Guild, Critics’ Choice Movie Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe.)
His fellow nominees, Ryan Gosling (Barbie), Robert De Niro (Killers of the Flower Moon), Sterling K. Brown (American Fiction), and Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things), put up a fierce fight. With this victory, Downey Jr. also wins his first Academy Award.
“In that order, I’d like to thank the Academy and my horrible childhood,” Downey Jr. said during his acceptance speech. “Here’s my little secret: I needed this job more than it needed me.” He also expressed gratitude to Susan Downey Jr., his wife of nearly 20 years, for her assistance. Our favorite canine from Anatomy of a Fall, Messi, also got his paws together for the actor.
Downey Jr. portrayed Lewis Strauss, an original member of the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and J. Robert Oppenheimer’s political adversary, in the film Oppenheimer. Strauss openly confronts Oppenheimer’s previous associations with communism and maintains his support for the hydrogen weapon throughout the film.
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“I had a previous fair understanding of Strauss because I was fascinated with the mechanics of warfare, particularly in the Pacific theater in World War II,” Downey Jr. disclosed to Vulture last summer. “I somewhat challenged the Mozart-Salieri of the matter.” “I expressed uncertainty as to whether Strauss is not, in some respects, the hero in this situation, which caused some surprise.”
Robert Downey Jr. Dedicated his Oscars Win to His Wife
Robert Downey Jr. is not afraid to admit that Susan Downey, his wife, has been a major contributor to his success. The “Oppenheimer” actor would often mention his wife, a film producer when taking the stage to claim his awards during award season.
It was no different on Oscars night, the year the actor won his first Academy Award. After playfully thanking “my terrible childhood and the Academy, in that order,” he remarked, “I’d like to thank my veterinarian, I meant wife, Susan Downey over there.”
As a snarling rescue pet, she discovered me and gave me life again. I’m here for that reason,” he stated. Since 2005, Downey Jr. and Susan Downey have been wed. He’s long credited her with helping him overcome his difficulties with substance misuse and get back on track.
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The proverb “There’s an amazing woman behind every good man” is genuine. I owe Susan a great deal, if not all, of my achievement,” he stated in an interview with the Irish Independent in 2010. “We work well together, and Susan is the source of all that luck I mentioned.”
He also revealed to People after his victory on Sunday: “We just decided to check in [with each other] tonight because it was like, you know what this feels like? Like the night of our wedding.
In the Dolby Theater on Sunday, there was hearty applause for Downey, who took up the Best Supporting Actor trophy. However, he confessed that a silent time was truly his favorite.
He went on, “But the best part of the night, er, the world, was when we just touched heads during a commercial break like two dinosaurs announcing to each other that we were a couple.” “And it was excellent.” Together, the couple has two children: a son named Exton and a girl named Avri. Along with Deborah Falconer, his ex-wife, Downey Jr. has a son named Indio.