Like the pirate code, that 45-second speech timer is really more of a guideline. After refraining from kissing Cillian Murphy ( hypocrite! ), Adrien Brody said he’d make his acceptance speech for Best Actor brief. Then he did not. Perhaps in honor of his 215-minute film, The Brutalist, Brody talked so long he broke a record.

The youngest Oscar winner at 29 for 'The Pianist,' Brody won best actor for 'The Brutalist' at 51 — a win for the AARP generations

Actor Adrien Brody took home his second Academy Award for Best Actor at the 2025 Oscars. Brody won for his role in Brady Corbet's 'The Brutalist,' beating stiff competition from Timothee Chalamet, Colman Domingo,

Earning his second Best Actor Oscar 22 years after his first, Adrien Brody entered the history books as the first leading actor to win two statuettes on his first two attempts on Sunday.

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.

Brody's acceptance speech exceeded the typical time limit and the play-off music began to roll, except The Brutalist actor wasn't having any of it.

From first-time Oscar winner Mikey Madison to Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo’s surprise opening, there were several memorable moments from the 2025 Academy Awards. But if there’s one thing that will go down in the history books,

Adrien Brody's second Best Actor Oscar has made history, and maybe now he will reach the same level of fame that he should have had in 2003.