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‘Oppenheimer’ Caps Seven-Oscar Night With Best Picture Win; Film Came In As The Favorite With 13 Total Nominations – Update
Robert Downey Jr. got "Oppenheimer" on the Oscar-night board, taking home the award for Actor in a Supporting Role.
Downey, though, had long ago emerged as a heavy favorite, cementing his chances with a widely hailed speech at January’s Golden Globe Awards. [Producer Emma Thomas] made sure that she surrounded me with one of the great casts and crews of all time, Emily [Blunt], Cillian [Murphy], Matt Damon. Downey joked, alluding to his struggles with substance abuse and a reputation (since overcome) for erratic behavior that Hansen spent half of those years “trying to get me insured and bailing me out of the hoosegow,” a slang term for jail.
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