Oscars 2025: Adrien Brody becomes first star to win ‘Best Actor’ twice with only two nominations
Adrien Brody has made history at the Oscars 2025 by becoming the first actor to ever win ‘Best Actor’ with their first two Oscar nominations.
Brody was already an Academy Award history maker, having become the youngest star to win ‘Best Actor’ when he won for The Pianist at the age of 29. However, he is now a double record holder thanks to his amazing performance in The Brutalist.
Amazingly, Brody is only the eighth actor in the Academy Award history to boast a 100% track record of success at the Oscars from two nominations or more. That exclusive club includes Vivien Leigh, Hilary Swank, Kevin Spacey, Luise Rainer, Christoph Waltz, Helen Hayes, and Mahershala Ali.
In his emotional speech, which went on so long that Brody actually dismissed the producers trying to play him off stage, he gushed, “Acting is a very fragile profession. It looks very glamorous, and in certain moments it is.”
He continued: “One thing I have gained and am privileged to come back here, is to have some perspective. No matter where you are in your career, it can all go away. What makes this night special is to witness the now. Winning an award like this signifies a destination to me.”
Having already won the Golden Globe and Bafta, Brody was the bookie’s favourite going into the Oscars.
However, he did have a late challenge when the Screen Actors Guild Awards gave their biggest acting honour to Timothée Chalamet’s performance as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown.
In Far Out’s review of the film, Emily Ruuskanen wrote: “The Brutalist starts off unbelievably strong – it’s a dazzling visual feat that captures the sheer wonder and magnitude of this daunting new world, heightening Tóth’s alienation and desperate yearning to begin his own chapter of the American dream, with a devastating performance from Adrien Brody as a proud yet deeply angry architect, forced to maintain a dehumanising level of gratitude despite being disrespected by everyone around him.
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