Adrien Brody Thanks Girlfriend Georgina Chapman and Her 2 Kids While Accepting His Second Oscar

Mar. 15, 2025

Adrien Brody on March 2, 2025.Photo:Kevin Winter/Getty

Kevin Winter/Getty

Adrien Brodyis this year’s Best Actor at theAcademy Awards!

“You know, acting is a very fragile profession. It looks very glamorous, and in certain moments it is, but the one thing I’ve gained with having the privilege to come back here is some perspective. No matter where you are in your career and what you’ve accomplished, it can all go away,” he added. “And I think what makes this night most special is the awareness of that and the gratitude that I have to still do the work that I love.”

After Brody thanked his management team andThe Brutalist’s writer-director Brady Corbet and writer-producer Mona Fastvold, as well as the rest of the movie’s cast, he said he shared the award “with my amazing partner [Georgina Chapman], who has not only reinvigorated my own self worth but my sense of value and my values and her beautiful children, Dash and India, I know this as been a roller coaster but thank you for accepting me into your life and Popsie’s coming home a winner.”

‘The Brutalist’.Lol Crawley

Lol Crawley

Brody, the only actor nominated this year with a previous Oscar win to his name, dominated awards season with wins at theGolden Globes,Critics Choice Awards,British Academy Film Awardsand more for his work leadingThe Brutalist, which follows a Hungarian immigrant and architect fleeing to the U.S. in the wake of the Holocaust.

Also in the running for the Best Actor prize wereTimothée ChalametforA Complete Unknown,Colman DomingoforSing Sing,Ralph FiennesforConclaveandSebastian StanforThe Apprentice.

‘A Complete Unknown’.Macall Polay/Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures

Macall Polay/Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures

‘Sing Sing’.A24

A24

Domingo, 55, pulled off a rare back-to-back Best Actor nomination feat with his nod forSing Singearned only one year after his first nod forRustin. InSing Sing, he plays the formerly incarcerated John “Divine G” Whitfield, dramatizing the real-life theater programRehabilitation Through the Arts, a performance that has earned him recognition from theGotham Awards, Golden Globes, Film IndependentSpirit Awardsand more.

‘Conclave’.Courtesy of Focus Features

Courtesy of Focus Features

Stan, 42, had not one but two critically acclaimed performances in contention this awards season; forA Different Man, hewonhis first Golden Globe, while playing Donald Trump in the Ali Abbasi-directed biopicThe Apprenticehas earned the Marvel star debuts at the BAFTAs, Spirit Awards and Oscars.

‘The Apprentice’.Courtesy of Briarcliff Entertainment & Rich Spirit

Courtesy of Briarcliff Entertainment & Rich Spirit

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