Downey Jr. He received a nomination in 1993 for Best Male Role in a Leading Role “Chaplin” Richard Attenborough. The actor was one of the favorites, he even received a BAFTA award. Ultimately he lost to Al Pacinowhich was awarded for “Scent of a Woman”.
In retrospect, the actor is glad that he did not receive an Oscar more than thirty years ago. “I was young and crazy,” he recalled in an interview with “The View.” “If I won, I would feel like everything was going well.”
Downey Jr. he described the following years as a time of “dependence, depravity and despair.” He turned to Whoopi Goldberg, the co-host of the program, with whom he appeared in the comedy “The Lady with the Sore”. “Whoopi remembers (what condition I was in),” he joked. “We were on this road together,” Goldberg replied, pointing to her troubles at the time.
Due to addiction and legal troubles, Downey Jr. At some point he became an unwelcome person in Hollywood. Each attempt to return to the major league ended with only temporary success – like his performance in the series “Ally McBeal”, for which he received a Golden Globe. The actor appeared in the fourth season, but was fired before filming began on the fifth season.
Downey Jr. finally emerged from a destructive lifestyle in the first decade of the 21st century. Thanks “Iron Man” (2008) was a box office success, however “Eggs in the Tropics” (2008) earned him his second Oscar nomination in his career. In the following years, he became the highest-grossing actor in the world.
IN “Oppenheimer” Christopher Nolan played Lewis Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, who has a personal grudge against the title character. For his role, he received a Golden Globe and nominations for the most important awards, including an Oscar. Everything indicates that on March 10, 2024, he will receive the statuette for his work.
“I’m happy about all 13 nominations,” he said on “The View” about the Oscar success of “Oppenheimer.” He also added that he doesn’t believe this is “only Emily Blunt’s first nomination.”