In “The Brutalist,” Adrien Brody bravely made his way back to the top of Hollywood’s A list on Sunday, earning him the second-best actor award for his searing portrayal of a Hungarian architect who immigrates to America after World War II.
Brody won both Oscars for Holocaust-related movies in 2003 with Roman Polanski’s “The Pianist,” making him the youngest man to do so at the age of 29.
He defeated Timothee Chalamet in the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” Ralph Fiennes in the papal thriller “Conclave,” Sebastian Stan in “The Apprentice,” and Colman Domingo as a wrongfully convicted inmate in “Sing Sing.”
Acting is a delicate profession, according to the author. It appears very glamorous, and it occasionally does, Brody emotionally addressed the audience.
It can all go away, no matter where you are in your career or what you have accomplished. And I believe that the awareness of that and the gratitude I have for continuing to do the work I love make this night so special.
The 51-year-old Brody won almost every major award for his role as Jewish architect Laszlo Toth, a Bauhaus-trained Holocaust survivor, as he celebrates an extraordinary awards season with the golden Oscar statuette.
Toth relocates to Pennsylvania where his cousin Attila (Alessandro Nivola) lives after arriving alone in New York. Toth doesn’t fit in with Attila’s new life because of the short-lived nature of the arrangement, which is broken by Catholic women.
Toth battles the demons of his past and the difficulties of trying to work in his adopted country as he tries to adjust to life in the United States.
When he meets industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren (Oscar nominee Guy Pearce), who orders him to construct a monolithic memorial to his mother but also demands control over his designs, everything changes.
With the arrival of his niece Zsofia (Raffey Cassidy), his family also changes.
The Brutalist, which runs for three and a half hours, won 10 Oscar nominations, including two for Brady Corbet and one for best picture.
It’s a reminder to not let hate go unchecked, Brody said on Sunday, if the past can teach us anything.
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Brody drew inspiration from his own family history to put himself in Toth’s shoes.
On April 14, 1973, Brody was the child of professor Elliot Brody, a Jew with Polish roots and photographer of Hungarian descent Sylvia Plachy. In the 1950s, Pláchy relocated from Budapest to New York.
As he accepted a Golden Globe award in January, Brody remarked, “The character’s journey is very reminiscent of my mother’s and my ancestral journey of fleeing the horrors of war and coming to this great country.”
“I owe my mother and my grandparents so much for the sacrifice they made,” said one.
As a teenager, Brody began taking acting lessons at both a prestigious high school for the arts in New York and a special arts summer camp.
His breakthrough came in Spike Lee’s 1970s crime thriller “Summer of Sam” (1999), which he played in a number of small roles.
Just a few years later, “The Pianist” was released in theaters. Brody studied piano for hours to portray Polish Jew Wladyslaw Szpilman, a real-life Polish musician who survived World War II’s Nazi occupation.
His 2003 Oscar nomination heralded his lavish kiss on Halle Berry, which became content when she later admitted it surprised her.
According to Brody, his portrayal of Toth twenty-six years later was informed by his work on “The Pianist.”
After “The Pianist,” Brody took on a variety of roles, starting with the M. Night Shyamalan horror film “The Village” adaptation, and then writing for Jack Driscoll in the 2005 King Kong remake, which was his biggest commercial success.
He appeared in Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and “The French Dispatch,” and he even had a small role in the popular British television series “Peaky Blinders.”
He embraced humanitarian causes, walked the Prada catwalk, and even appeared in the music video for reggaeton singer Rauw Alejandro.
After falling in love with Spanish actress Elsa Pataky, Brody has been dating fashion designer Georgina Chapman, the former wife of a disgraced producer and the ex-wife of Harvey Weinstein’s ex-wife, since 2020.
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