The Big Picture: Robert Downey Jr. Career & Biographical Notes: Made film debut playing a puppy in his father's 1970 movie Pound Spent one year as a cast member of Saturday Night Live Frequently plagued by drugs from latter half of 1990's through early 2000's Was the human inspiration for Spuds McKenzie.

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Robert Downey Jr. Trivia Quizzes
at HowWellDoYouKnow.com:

• 10/14/11-10/20/11
• 3/9/12-3/15/12
• 8/26/11-9/1/11
• Avengers (Easy Version), The
• Avengers (Hard Version), The
• Avengers: Age of Ultron, The
• Back to School
• Cast of The Avengers Trivia, The
• Chef
• Home for the Holidays
• Iron Man
• Iron Man 2
• Natural Born Killers
• Path to The Avengers, The
• Robert Downey, Jr. Movie Roles
• Sherlock Holmes
• Tropic Thunder

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Recent Movies:

Film	Date	Rating	Screens	Opening	Total	Box Office
Due Date	11/5/10	N/A
Iron Man 2	5/7/10	N/A
Sherlock Holmes	12/25/09				93.57	Info
The Soloist	4/24/09	N/A
Tropic Thunder	8/13/08	R			87.84	Info
Iron Man	5/2/08				306.38	Info
Charlie Bartlett	2/22/08	N/A
Zodiac	3/2/07	R	10	0.02	0.04	Info
Zodiac	3/2/07	R	2362	13.40	33.05	Info
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus	11/10/06	R	4	0.03	0.19	Info
A Scanner Darkly	7/7/06	R	17	0.39	5.16	Info
The Shaggy Dog	3/10/06	PG	3501	16.31	60.17	Info
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang	10/21/05	R	8	0.18	4.24	Info
Good Night, and Good Luck	10/7/05	PG	11	0.42	29.48	Info
Eros	4/8/05	R	12	0.05	0.19	Info
Gothika	11/21/03	R	2382	19.29	59.59	Info
The Singing Detective	10/24/03	R	5	0.03	0.34	Info

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Awards:

2008
Tropic Thunder

• Runner-up: Best Supporting Actor, Academy Awards
• Runner-up: Best Supporting Actor, Southeastern Film Critics Association
• Nominee: Best Supporting Actor, Screen Actors' Guild
• Nominee: Best Supporting Actor, Chicago Film Critics
• Nominee: Best Supporting Actor, Broadcast Film Critics Association
• Nominee: Best Supporting Actor, Golden Globes
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actor, Online Film Critics Association
• Runner-up: Best Supporting Actor, Golden Satellites
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actor, Dallas Fort Worth Critics

2005
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

• Runner-Up: Best Actor - Musical or Comedy, Golden Satellites

2003
The Singing Detective

• Runner-Up: Best Actor - Musical or Comedy, Golden Satellites

1997
One Night Stand

• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actor, Boston Film Critics

1992
Chaplin

• Runner-Up: Best Actor, Academy Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Actor - Drama, Golden Globes

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