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    Robert Downey Jr completes awards season sweep with Oscar win

    by Laura Harding Mar 11, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: AP

    Robert Downey Jr completed his clean sweep of awards season as he was named best supporting actor at the Oscars for his role in Oppenheimer.

    The Iron Man star won for his performance as Lewis Strauss, head of the Atomic Energy Commission in the epic biopic about J Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist described as the father of the atomic bomb.

    It follows wins at the Baftas, Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild and Critics’ Choice awards.

    Collecting the prize, he said: “I want to thank my terrible childhood and the in that

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