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Robert Downey Jr. reflects on finally winning Oscar after his father thought he was 'robbed' in 1993 for Chaplin


The 58-year-old Iron Man alum lost to Al Pacino in 1993 for his performance as a blind and alcoholic Army veteran in Scent of a Woman

Robert Downey Jr. reflected on how it felt to finally win his first Oscar for best supporting actor last week for his scene-stealing turn as antagonist Rear Admiral Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer (pictured March 10) Robert frequently credits the 50-year-old producer (L, pictured March 10) with helping him overcome his drug and alcohol addiction in 2003 after meeting on the set of Gothika, and they're proud parents of 12-year-old son Exton and nine-year-old daughter Avri But first, audiences can catch the Manhattan-born high school drop-out executive producing and starring as four different characters in Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar's seven-episode spy thriller The Sympathizer, which premieres April 18 on Max.

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