Keeping the predictions intact, Robert Downey Jr wins Best Supporting Actor for Oppenheimer at the 96th Academy Awards. Marking his first-ever Oscar win, in his acceptance speech, he said, "I'd like to thank my terrible childhood and the academy, in that order. I needed this job more than it needed me. Chris (Nolan) knows it, and I know it."

It is worth mentioning that Robert Downey Jr. previously secured a nomination in the Best Actor category in 1993 for Chaplin and the Best Supporting Actor for Tropic Thunder in 2009. The former he lost to Al Pacino for Scent of Women and later to Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight.

Other nominees in the category were Sterling K Brown for American Fiction, Robert De Niro for Killers of the Flower Moon, Ryan Gosling for Barbie, and Mark Ruffalo for Poor Things. It is to be noted that Oppenheimer received a total of 13 nominations at the 96th Academy Awards.