Phoenix is the second man to win an Oscar for playing the Joker; Heath Ledger received the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his work in The Dark Knight.
Phoenix won the 2020 Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Joker as Arthur Fleck, a frustrated clown who slowly loses his tenuous grip on his sanity.
This is not a joke: Joaquin Phoenix is now an Oscar winner.
He’s previously been nominated for Best Actor for his turn as Johnny Cash in Walk the Line and as the deeply troubled Freddie Quell in Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master.