Adrien Brody ignored the Academy’s 45-second limit and delivered one of the longest speeches in Oscar history after winning Best Actor for his role as a Holocaust survivor in The Brutalist. The star spoke for five minutes and 40 seconds,

Adrien Brody took home the Oscar for his performance in 'The Brutalist,' and spoke about how "we must learn from the past" in backstage interviews.

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.

Brody twice demanded that the orchestra stop trying to play him off so he could continue talking for a record-breaking 5-plus minutes.

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Adrien Brody won Best Actor at the 2025 Oscars, and broke an Oscar record while accepting the award by recording the longest speech ever. Brody's Oscar speech lasted five minutes and 40 seconds.

It is the second time he has triumphed in the category, this time for his performance in the epic “The Brutalist.”

Adrien Brody clinched his second Oscar for best actor, winning Sunday for his role as a visionary Hungarian architect in “ The Brutalist ” and solidifying his legacy as one of Hollywood's most compelling talents.

Long-viewed as the category's frontrunner, Adrien Brody picked up his second Oscar for Best Actor for his work in Brady Corbet's 'The Brutalist.'

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.

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