Actor Robert Downey Jr won Best Supporting Male Actor – Motion Picture at the Golden Globes for his performance in the director Christopher Nolan’s biopic film Oppenheimer. This marks his fourth Golden Globe win after Short Cuts, Ally McBeal and Sherlock Holmes.
The Avengers actor received a standing ovation as he walked to the stage to receive his award.
Taking to the stage, he said, "Yeah, yeah, I took a beta blocker so this will be a breeze."
The actor said he's glad Universal "went all in" for Nolan and crew to "render a goddamn masterpiece". He called it a "most improved" award and thanked his wife Susan, who's "made an art out of extracting me from my comfort zone".
The other actors nominated in the Best Supporting Male - Motion Picture category at the 81st Golden Globes were William Dafoe for Poor Things, Robert De Niro for Killers of the Flower Moon, Charles Melton for May December, Mark Ruffalo for Poor Things, and Ryan Gosling for Barbie.
Robert Downey Jr played the role of Lewis Strauss in Nolan’s 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 Oppenheimer.
Apart from Cilian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr, the film also stars Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr, Gary Oldman, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh, among others.
Oppenheimer had clashed at the box office with the fantasy comedy Barbie on July 21 last year. The film was released to huge critical and commercial acclaim, becoming the highest-grossing biopic ever with more than $950 million worldwide gross.