Adrien Brody wins second Best Actor Oscar for The Brutalist
In his second win for Best Actor, Brody managed to be played off the stage twice.
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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.
