Oscars 2025 | Adrien Brody wins Best Actor for ‘The Brutalist’-OxBig News Network

Adrien Brody wins the Oscar for Best Actor for “The Brutalist” during the Oscars show at the 97th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 2, 2025.
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Actor Adrien Brody on Monday bagged the Best Actor Oscar at the 97th Academy Awards, for his scintillating turn in the post-war epic, The Brutalist. This is Brody’s second Oscar, after winning in the same category in 2003 for Roman Polanski’s The Pianist, another Holocaust drama.

Brody competed in the category withRalph Fiennes (Conclave), Timothee Chalamet (A Complete Unknown), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice).

“Acting is a fragile profession,” Brody said in his acceptance speech. “It looks very glamorous, and in certain moments it is, but the one thing that I have gained, having the privilege to come back here, is to have some perspective. And… no matter where you are in your career, no matter what you have accomplished, it can all go away. And I think what makes this night most special is the awareness of that and the gratitude I have to still do the work that I love.”

The Brutalist, which is nominated for 10 Oscars including best picture, is Brady Corbet’s three-and-a-half-hour postwar American epic filmed in VistaVision. Brody starred in the film alongside Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce.

The Brutalist stars Brody as László Tóth, a Jewish architect rebuilding his life after World War II. Joining Brody is Jones as Erzsébet, Tóth’s wife, as the couple immigrates to the United States in search of a fresh start. Their journey takes a turn when Tóth encounters a wealthy and mysterious client, played by Pearce, who becomes pivotal to the architect’s career.

Brody won an Academy Award for best actor in 2003 for his role in The Pianist. His gap of 22 years would be the second-longest between best actor wins. It was 29 years between wins for Silence of the Lambs and The Father for Anthony Hopkins.

(With inputs from AP)