BAFTA 2024: Robert Downey Jr wins Best Supporting Actor award for 'Oppenheimer'

Hollywood actor Robert Downey Jr bagged the Best Supporting Actor award at the BAFTA Film Awards 2024 for his performance in the biopic film OppenheimerThe award ceremony is currently underway at Londons Royal Festival HallIn his acceptance speech Downey Jr took a walk down memory lane and shouted out that dude Christopher NolanWhen I was 15 I wanted to be Peter OToole When I was 25 I worked for Richard Attenbourgh and Anthony Hopkins When I was 35 I finally understood why Dickie thought Tony would be a better role model for me than Peter Downey Jr said When I was 42 I did two films for Guy Ritchie and learned how to make big Hollywood movies with a civil British flare I then played a guy named Tony in the MCU for about 12 years as per Variety a USbased media outletHe continued And then recently that dude Chris Nolan suggested I attempt an understated approach as a lastditch effort to perhaps resurrect my dwindling credibility So I share this with my fellow nominees this has been an exceptional yearOther nominees were Robert De Niro for Killers of the Flower Moon Jacob Elordi for Saltburn Ryan Gosling for Barbie Paul Mescal for All of Us Strangers and Dominic Sessa for The Holdovers as per VarietyIn the film Robert Downey Jr played the role of Lewis Strauss in Nolans biopic of the titular physicist played by Cillian Murphy Lewis Strauss played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb and later became a political rival of J Robert OppenheimerThe film was released on July 21The biopic set during World War II follows Oppenheimer known as the Father of the Atomic Bomb during a period in history when he understood that testing the atomic bomb would ignite the atmosphere and destroy the world yet he pushed the button anywayThe film received a lot of appreciation from the audienceDowney Jr had previously won the best actor BAFTA for Chaplin back in 1992 and was nominated for best supporting actor in 2009 for Tropic Thunder reported VarietyThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever