‘Awards Chatter’ Pod: Adrien Brody on ‘The Brutalist,’ His Historic Oscar Win for ‘The Pianist’ and the Roller-Coaster Years In-Between
- Adrien Brody won a Golden Globe for best actor in a motion picture drama for his role in The Brutalist, 22 years after winning an Oscar for The Pianist.
Back in 2003, Adrien Brody, at the age of 29, became — and to this day remains — the youngest-ever best actor Oscar winner, for his tour de force performance as a Jewish musician living in Poland during the rise of the Nazis in The Pianist . On Sunday night, 22 years and a lot of ups and downs later, he was back on top, winning a best actor in a motion picture drama Golden Globe for his portrayal of another Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, in this case a brilliant architect who then comes to America and discovers that the American dream is not all it's cracked up to be, in Brady Corbet's epic The Brutalist .
On this episode of The Hollywood Reporter 's Awards Chatter podcast, which was recorded at the London West Hollywood hotel, the 51-year-old reflects on his odds-defying, roller coaster of a life and career. He discusses early examples of luck, both great and terrible; how The Pianist came along, what it demanded of him and the pros and cons of his star-making night at the Oscars; why, as recently as 2016, he essentially walked away from his acting career, and what convinced him to return — on episodes of TV's Succession and Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty , in the film Blonde and in The Brutalist — and why The Brutalist has such great personal meaning to him; plus much more.
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