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Adrien Brody just won his second Best Actor Oscar for his performance as Hungarian-Jewish architect László Tóth in The Brutalist. In his speech, Brody first thanked God for his blessed life. “I feel so fortunate. Acting is a very fragile profession. It looks very glamorous and in certain moments it is. But the one thing I’ve gained during the privilege to come back here is some perspective,” the actor said from the stage. “It can all go away. I think what makes this night most special is the awareness of that.” Brody then managed to convince the ceremony to stop playing him off, and continued to plow ahead with more speech, where he spoke against anti-Semitism and racism. “I believe if the past can teach us anything, it’s a reminder to not let hate go unchecked,” he said before actually getting played off.
In Brady Corbet’s VistaVision epic—which already won two other awards tonight—Brody paints a decades-long portrait of a Holocaust survivor whose life and family become intertwined with those of his wealthy client, Harrison Lee Van Buren (Best Supporting Actor nominee Guy Pearce). In one of the most unpredictable award seasons in recent memory, Brody’s win was a rare, semi-sure bet. The Brutalist actor won six of the nine major prizes he was nominated for this season, losing only the Gotham Award to Colman Domingo for Sing Sing and the Asta and Screen Actors Guild Awards to Timothée Chalamet for A Complete Unknown.
Predictability aside, Brody’s win is a major accomplishment. He joins a small circle of only 10 other actors who’ve won Best Actor in a Leading Role twice. (Other notable names include Jack Nicholson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Marlon Brando, Anthony Hopkins, Dustin Hoffman.) He also holds onto his record for youngest Best Actor winner ever, set in 2003 for his work in The Pianist when he was 29 years and 343 days old. Relative youngster Timothée Chalamet had a chance to beat it tonight at a mere 29 years and 65 days old, but the Bob Dylan actor will have to wait a bit longer for his first statue.
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