Robert Downey Jr. has just won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role!
The huge achievement marks the legendary actor's first-ever Academy Award win, as he took home the prize for his role in the 2023 blockbuster Oppenheimer.
Downey Jr. emerged victorious in a fierce battle, triumphing over formidable contenders such as Robert De Niro for Killers of the Flower Moon, Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things, Sterling K. Brown in American Fiction, and his fellow "Barbenheimer" star, Ryan Gosling, for Barbie.
However, the win wasn't quite the result many viewers were hoping for.
Taking to X, several viewers fumed that it should have been Ryan Gosling taking home the Oscar for his role as Ken.
"Ryan Gosling was robbed! You will always be Kenough," one person wrote. A second added: "I love Robert Downey Jr as much as anyone else but come on! Ryan Gosling was robbed. RDJ's character was in #Oppenheimer for 5 minutes while in #Barbie Ken was a vital character. This'll be viewed as a historic mistake by the #Oscars".
A third added: "RDJ is a great actor but Ryan Gosling was robbed #Oscars".
"Robert Downey Jr is a great actor, but he did not deserve that award. He was only in that film for an hour and didn't do much. Ryan Gosling got robbed big time," a fourth vented.
Earlier in the night, viewers flocked to Downey Jr.'s defense after host Jimmy Kimmel made jokes about his past addiction battles.
Kimmel was slammed for "scraping the barrel" with the "uncomfortable" jokes, which left the room void of laughs.
"This is the highest point of Robert Downey Jr.'s long and illustrious career. Well, one of the highest points," Kimmel teased. Check out the moment he fell flat below:
"That Robert Downey Jr joke was unnecessary," one X user wrote, with a second adding: "@JimmyKimmelLive horrible at hosting the Oscars, the Robert Downey Jr joke was not funny at all."
Another livid viewer tweeted: "Kimmel scraping the bottom of the barrel with Robert Downey Jr drug 'jokes'. Rehashing old news because he can’t come up with any new material. Deafening silence from the audience was so uncomfortable and embarrassing!"
A fourth added: "The Robert Downey Jr jokes are the most distasteful jokes I got so uncomfortable."
Maybe, in the future, the focus can be on the actor's successes - such as his long-awaited Oscars win.
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