Oscars 2025: Adrien Brody Wins Best Actor for 'The Brutalist'
This was Brody's second Best Actor Oscar win after the Roman Polanski-directed feature 'The Pianist' in 2003, when he became the youngest ever winner of the same award
Adrien Brody has won Best Actor at the 97th Academy Awards, bagging the honour for his portrayal of a Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor who immigrates to the United States in the epic-period drama The Brutalist, directed by Brady Corbet.
This was Brody's second best actor Oscar win after the Roman Polanski-directed feature The Pianist in 2003, when he became the youngest Best Actor award winner at the age of 29.
Other nominees for the category included Timothée Chalamet for A Complete Unknown in which he played Bob Dylan, Colman Domingo for Sing Sing, Ralph Fiennes for Conclave, and Sebastian Stan as US President Donald Trump in The Apprentice.
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Brody said, “I feel so fortunate. Acting is a very fragile profession. It looks very glamorous and in certain moments it is, but the one thing that I’ve gained having the privilege to come back here is to have some perspective. No matter where you are in your career, no matter what you’ve accomplished, it can all go away.”
As he accepted the award, presented by last year's winner, Oppenheimer actor Cillian Murphy, Brody thanked his cast, crew, family and added, "I am here once again to represent the lingering traumas of war and systematic oppression and anti-Semitism and racism, and othering. I pray for a healthier and a happier and a more inclusive world, and I believe if the past can teach us anything, it’s a reminder to not let hate go unchecked. Let’s fight for what’s right, keep smiling, keep loving one another. Let’s rebuild together. Thank you.”
In The Brutalist, Brody plays László Tóth, a fictional Hungarian modernist architect who survives the Second World War, via its concentration camps, and ends up in the US.
The Brutalist also bagged two other honours—Best Cinematography for Lol Crawley and Best Original Score for Daniel Blumberg.