Since Oppenheimer was released last July, the name of Robert Downey Jr has already begun to be heard as one of the favorites for the Oscar in the category of best supporting actor for his magnificent role as Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan's film . And so it has been. Playing the conservative politician who accused the father of the atomic bomb of being a communist and spy has earned him the well-deserved statuette after sweeping the awards season.
This was his third nomination after being nominated as best actor for Chaplin (1993) and as supporting actor in Tropic Thunder (2008). "Thank you colleagues. I would like to thank my horrible childhood and then the Academy." "It's no secret that I needed this job more than this job needed me. Chris knew it and surrounded me with the best cast he could have," he began to say in a fun and sincere speech in which he thanked from his wife, his deceased mother, to his stylist and his lawyer, "who has spent half his career trying to get me insured and get me out of jail," he commented.
A great recognition for this 58-year-old New York performer who hit rock bottom with drugs in the mid-nineties - his father, director Robert Downey Sr. invited him to his first joint at the age of six - and had several problems with the law that It led him to spend several times in prison. His resurrection came years later, in 2005, thanks to producer Susan Levin, who became his second wife, whom he met on the set of the film Gothika. In 2007, the actor signed the contract that linked him to what is probably his most popular character: Iron Man in the Marvel universe. And then he too became Sherlock Holmes under Guy Ritchie.
