By winning Best Actor at the 2025 the Academy Awards, Brody was nominated for Best Actor alongside Timothée Chalamet, Ralph Fiennes, Colman Domingo, and Sebastian Stan. However, it was Brody and Chalamet who were seen as the two favorites to win the award. If he won, Chalamet actually would have dethroned Brody as the youngest Best Actor Oscar winner ever, but Brody ultimately ended up taking home the award.
Brody's second Oscar win is not at all surprising, since winning Best Actor at the 2025 Academy Awards, Brody is the first actor in Oscars history to win two Best Actor awards for his first two nominations.
Adrien Brody Is The First Person To Win Their First 2 Best Actor Oscar Nominations
Brody Previously Won Best Actor In 2003
It's not necessarily rare for someone to have a perfect record at the Oscars. In fact, other artists have won for their first two Academy Award nominations, but Brody is the first leading actor to do so. This makes Brody one of a kind when it comes to finding Oscars success in acting categories. In 2003, 22 years before winning the Oscar for his work in The Brutalist, Brody won his first Best Actor Academy Award. After starring in Roman Polanski's critically acclaimed film The Pianist, Brody became the youngest Best Actor Oscar winner ever.
Adrien Brody's 10 Best Movies, Ranked
Adrien Brody has starred in many successful films throughout his career, but certain projects and performances stand out from the crowd.
It is interesting that Brody got nominated for and won Oscars for The Brutalist and The Pianist, as the films share many similarities. Both films are about Jewish people and the Holocaust. While The Brutalist focuses more on the immigrant experience, both movies explore the grief and hopelessness that Jewish people felt because of the horrors of the Holocaust. Even though it took Brody many years to be nominated for his second Oscar, setting this record proves that his win for The Brutalist won't be forgotten anytime soon.
Adrien Brody Is Only The 11th Actor To Win Multiple Best Actor Oscars
Brody Has ed An Elite Group Of Actors
In addition to accomplishing this impressive Oscars feat, Brody has ed an elite group of actors who have won Best Actor more than once. For years, Brody has been seen as an incredibly gifted actor. After all, it is no small feat to be the youngest Best Actor winner in history. However, I think Brody's second Best Actor win puts him in the conversation of one of the best actors of all time.
Actors With Multiple Best Actor Oscars |
Movies |
|---|---|
Daniel Day-Lewis |
My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood, Lincoln |
Adrien Brody |
The Pianist, The Brutalist |
Jack Nicholson |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, As Good as It Gets |
Spencer Tracy |
Captains Courageous, Boys Town |
Marlon Brando |
On the Waterfront, The Godfather |
Dustin Hoffman |
Kramer vs. Kramer, Rain Man |
Tom Hanks |
Philadelphia, Forrest Gump |
Anthony Hopkins |
The Silence of the Lambs, The Father |
Fredric March |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Best Years of Our Lives |
Gary Cooper |
Sergeant York, High Noon |
Sean Penn |
Mystic River, Milk |
As seen in the table above, ten actors, including Brody, have won two Best Actor Oscars. However, Daniel Day-Lewis is the only actor who has been awarded Best Actor three times. After his win for The Brutalist, Brody will likely have a lot of momentum in the coming years, which could lead to more Best Actor nominations. Therefore, there's a chance that Brody could find even more Oscars success and win a third Best Actor award. Time will tell, but for now, check out Screen Rant's list of all the 2025 Oscar winners.
The Brutalist
- Release Date
- December 20, 2024
- Runtime
- 215 Minutes
- Director
- Brady Corbet
Cast
László Tóth
Harrison Lee Van Buren
WHERE TO WATCH
- Writers
- Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold
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