In a career that has experienced meteoric highs (GOOD NIGHT & GOOD LUCK, CHAPLIN and ZODIAC) and prolific lows (drug busts, jail time) 2008 must be a pretty nice place for ROBERT DOWNEY JR. to be.

His work in the box-office hit IRON MAN and his hilarious turn as an Aussie actor trying to play a black man in TROPIC THUNDER have been getting the best reviews of his career.

DOWNEY talked to HOLLYWOOD OUTBREAK about his success this year. Check it out: