Given Kieran Culkin's winning streak during awards season, he's being touted as a likely victor at the 97th Academy Awards.
Kieran Culkin took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor at the 2025 Academy Awards for his role as Benji Kaplan in Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain. In A Real Pain, Culkin and Eisenberg play an odd-couple cousin pairing on a trip around their grandmother's native Poland.
Kieran Culkin is no stranger to awards show acceptance speeches — so he isn’t afraid to call out fellow actors for taking too much time on the podium. “Thank you for this incredibly heavy award,” Culkin said while accepting the SAG Award for male actor in a supporting role for “A Real Pain.