Oscars 2025: Adrien Brody wins best actor award second time

Adrien Brody made an epic return to the top of Hollywood’s A-list, winning the second best actor Oscar of his career for playing Hungarian architect in the Brutalist.

Both of Brody’s Academy Awards have come for Holocaust-related films.

He bagged his first Oscar in the category for Roman Polanski’s The Pianist on 2003. He became the youngest man ever to triumph in the category at age 29.

This time, he bested Timothee Chalamet in Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, Ralph Fiennes in papal thriller Conclave, Sebastian Stan as a young Donald Trump in The Apprentice and Colman Domingo as a wrongfully convicted inmate in Sing Sing.