Robert Downey Jr. Wins Best Supporting Actor for 'Oppenheimer' | 96th Oscars (2024)

and the Oscar goes to Sam Rockwell Tim Robbins Kristoff Maha Ali we are honored to be here to honor

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nominees Sterling I know it's been a long journey to get to this night, I can relate and I'm so happy that you are finally being recognized by your peers. Your acting and American fiction are extraordinary and transformative and I'm in R. The magic you bring to the screen is only surpassed by the magic of who you are as a person, there are

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s and then there are actors who don't leave character until the comment of the DVD that talks about Robert Downey Jr. that guy.

Susan's husband could be Iron Man. He could be any man who always goes above and beyond 30 years ago and as a chaplain. he learned to play the violin left-handed whoever does that seriously is disgusting and now in Oppenheimer he steals scenes from Albert Einstein and the Atomic Bomb I love him you love him we couldn't be happier for his third Oscar nomination for his incredible performance as Leis Stuss in the Over the course of his brilliant career, Robert Dairo has teamed up with Martin Sces to bring us a wide range of uniquely complicated villains. His latest performance in Killers of the Flower Moon offers a different kind of evil, not that of a gangster or psychotic loner but of a man. businessman consumed by greed and his lust for power Mr.

Dairo in an Oscar-winning performance, worthy of an Oscar, gives us we should be winning gives us a reminder of the Heart of Darkness within our ancestral blood congratulations to a Legend acting, it's not really new that certain male behavior resembles the inferiority complex of a plastic doll in a cardboard box, well, it's something easy to ridicule, so why do we admire Ryan Gosling's Ken so much because the Ken's interpretation of Ryan allows us? Yes, I admit it, not to connect now. not because he's ridiculous but because he's funny, smart, wildly entertaining, and ultimately heartwarming and empathy-worthy to experience.

Experiencing all of that is exactly what we go to the movies for. Mark Ruffalo for three decades you have captivated us with your versatility from drama to comedy. to action you have defied categorization and we wouldn't have it any other way your appetite for challenge is unparalleled, exemplified by your performance as weirdo duncan in poor things which has rightly earned you this nomination and beyond your brand of talent. You are just a wonderful human being thank you and the Oscar goes to Rober Downey Jr. this is Robert Downey Jr's first Oscar and his third nomination thank you thank you uh thank you Sam thank you guys that's amazing you just made a mistake in one line I would like to thank you to my terrible childhood and academia in that order I would like to thank my I'm a veterinarian, my wife, uh, Susan Downey, there she found me a grumpy rescue pet and you love me back to life, that's why I'm here, thank you. um, here's my little secret.

I needed this job more than he needed me. Chris knew it. Emma made sure she surrounded me with one of the

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casts and crews of all time. Emily Killian Matt Damon blunt, it was fantastic and I'm here before you. a better man for it, you know what we do is meaningful and the things we decide to do are important, so let's go back to my publicist, my agent Philip Raskin is here and Andrew Dunlap, my DM mother, Joy, thank you very much. I have to thank my stylist in case no one else does, thank you Erica, thank you very much, um, and I'm just going to say this, um, my entertainment attorney, Tom Hansen, 40 years, half of which he spent trying to get me insured and getting me out of the HCA thanks brother Avery xon Indio this is for you