Adrien Brody, 51, was the big winner of the Oscar for “Best Actor in the lead role” in 2025. On this occasion, he also brought a record of over 80 years.
Adrien Brody won the prize for “best actor” photo: The Academy/X
Adrien Brody held on Sunday night while receiving the trophy, the longest speech in the History of Oscar, AFP informs. The protagonist of the movie “The Brutalist” has promised several times that his speech will be short, but eventually spent five minutes and 40 seconds on stage.
He spoke 10 seconds more than Greer Garson, the British actress whose record of 1943. Because of her, the American Film Academy created the time limits for speeches and introduced the habit of broadcasting a background to leaving the scene. But on Sunday night, Adrien Brody suddenly interrupted the first orchestra agreements. “Please turn off the music. I have done this before“, said the American actor, already rewarded with the award for best actor in 2003 due to his role in the movie” The Pianist “.
“I am not at my first attempt but i will be short“He promised, but without speaking. Adrien Brody thanked more than 12 people in his speech, especially director Brady Corbet, other stars in the cast – Guy Pecru and Felicity Jones -, parents and girlfriend, Georgina Chapman.
His monologue thus presented similarities to “The Brutalist”, a large film fresco whose duration is three hours and 30 minutes, being directed by Brady Corbet, an idealist filmmaker and devoid of compromises. Adrien Brody plays in this film a Hungarian architect of the Holocaust, who is trying to restore his life after the United States. Worldwide.
The actor stood out and through a controversial gesture
Adrien Brody is criticized for a “disgusting” gesture he did at the Sunday ceremony. Before climbing on stage, the actor threw his gum to chewing gum after he got up from the chair. During this time, Georgina Chapman ran to her partner and caught the gum, before he started the speech.
The actor commented on this controversial gesture in an interview that he granted on Monday to the television station ABC. “I forgot that we chewed gum. I had to get rid of it in one way or another!“he said.
Adrien Brody was rewarded on Sunday night, in Los Angeles, with the Oscar for “Best Actor in the lead role” at the 97th Gala to award the trophies attributed by the American Film Academy, thanks to its interpretation from the feature film “The Brutalist. Colman Domingo (“Sing alone”), Ralph Fiennes (“conclave”), and Sebastian Stan (“The Apprentice”).
Also, the prize for “Best Actress in the lead role” was won by Mikey Madison (“Anora”), while the prize for “best actor in the secondary role” returned to Kieran Culkin (“A Real Pain”), and the one for “The best actress in the secondary role” to Zoe Saldana (“Emilia Perez”).
The movie “Anora” was the big winner of the Oscar 2025 Awards Gala. Of the six nominations, Sean Baker’s film managed to win five prizes, including for best actress, best director and best movie.
