Talk about being a brutalist.
Adrien Brody won the Oscar for Best Actor at the2025 Academy Awards Sunday night and used the opportunity to display behavior some viewers found pretty bothersome.
Although the “Brutalist” star did a few annoying things before he even got on the stage — like spending a full minute hugging everyone who approached him and grossing out viewers by spitting out a wad of gum he was chewing and throwing it to his partner to hold — these irritating acts were just the tip of the iceberg.
Once Brody got on stage, he launched into a pretty standard — albeit long-winded — acceptance speech. It should be noted that the suggested time limit for acceptance speeches at the Oscars was about 45 seconds. Yet, when Brody’s speech hit the 3:43 mark and the orchestra began playing him off, things took an ugly turn.
Initially Brody just ignored the music signaling for him to leave the stage, but he then decided to confront the situation.
“And I’m wrapping up, please, please, please. I’m wrapping up. I will wrap up. Please turn the music off,” Brody said, while making a “cut” gesture with his hands.
“I’ve done this before. Thank you. It’s not my first rodeo,” he added, a reference to this being the second time he has won a Best Actor Oscar. His first was in 2003 for “The Pianist.”
“But I will be brief,” Brody said after the music stopped playing. “I will not be egregious, I promise.”
But Brody continued to ramble on for nearly two more minutes.
Brody’s speech was so bloated that The Hollywood Reporter pointed out his dialogue broke a world record for the longest acceptance speech in Oscars history. Not counting the time Brody took to actually get on the stage, THR clocked his speech at a whopping five minutes and 40 seconds. That means Brody’s speech beat the Guinness World Record of five minutes and 30 seconds held by Greer Garson, when she won for “Mrs. Miniver” in 1943.
Funnily enough, it seems that some actors who have been on the award circuit this season had a feeling Brody may eat up a lot of time while delivering his acceptance speech.
At the Screen Actors Guild Awards last month, Kieran Culkin even made a crack about Brody’s tendency to hog the spotlight.
Kieran Culkin making fun of Adrien Brody during his SAG Award speech:
“Thank you for this incredibly heavy award. I don’t think there’s any way anyone can hold this for 45 seconds…..which is the allotted time, Adrien Brody!” pic.twitter.com/RUQHFNOAbW
— Spencer Althouse (@SpencerAlthouse) February 24, 2025
While remarking how heavy the trophy was at the SAG Awards, Culkin said, “I don’t think there’s any way anyone can hold this for 45 seconds. Which is the allotted time, Adrien Brody. Forty-five seconds.”
Over on X, formerly Twitter, users expressed their distaste for Brody’s behavior:
they needed to get a giant hook for adrien brody’s ass like it was the apollo
— Sydney Battle (@SydneyBattle) March 3, 2025
adrien brody taking 1 whole minute to get on the stage, throwing his gum on the floor, and proceeding to have a 6.5 minute speech where he demands the orchestra to stop playing so he can keep yapping pic.twitter.com/0BKD7jKgp4
— chlo (@2dchloe) March 3, 2025
why is adrien brody allowed to talk for so long but others were rushed off the stage???? please play the music.
— ً (@drivenbyfilms) March 3, 2025
being held hostage by adrien brody
— sarah hagi (@KindaHagi) March 3, 2025
Adrien Brody saying “I’ve done this before shut the music off”…. but Timothee was getting slammed for saying he wanted to be one of the greats… hmmm…. Okay #Oscarspic.twitter.com/GkR5a1CHgS
— Jihyo #1 Fan (@feelsspecial) March 3, 2025
hmm so i do not like how adrien brody was all “i’ve done this before” lol. there is a huge difference between this speech and timothée’s SAG speech and this one was full of arrogance
— lina (@evermoresivy) March 3, 2025
of course a man like adrien brody can’t respect the boundaries of the oscars and take up all the time in the world pic.twitter.com/BgH0wjtIbr
— the corpse of brvhznetsov (@bruhvechkin) March 3, 2025
