With the golden statuette, Brody, 51, culminates a successful season in which practically all the prizes for the best actor for his role as László Tóth, a survivor of the holocaust who seeks a new life in the United States.
He defeated Ralph Fiennes tonight (“conclave”), Sebastian Stan (“the apprentice”), Timothée Chalamet (“A complete stranger”) and Colman Domingo (“The lives of Sing Sing Sing”).
“There are so many people to thank,” Brody said.
“Acting is a very fragile profession. It seems very glamorous and, at certain times, it is,” Brody said when receiving the prize. “It doesn’t matter where you are in your career, no matter what you have achieved, everything can disappear.”
In “The Brutalist”, Toth, Hungarian and Jewish faith, he arrives only in New York after World War II, and is received by his cousin Attila (Alessandro Nivola) in Pennsylvania, where he will face his first attack at not fitting with the new reality of his only relative there, who is married to a Catholic woman.
Under the direction of Brady Corbet, Brody prints to those first moments in the United States an additional layer of sensitivity to his character: an artist tormented by a past he does not speak of, forced to practice with children’s tongue twisted a new language that limits him and navigates between the passion for his designs and the resignation about not being able to execute them.
His life will change when, for better and worse, he is crossed on the road The Millionaire Industrial Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce), with whom he develops a complicated relationship.
The family facet gains space in the three and a half -hour tape, with the arrival of his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones) and his niece Zsophia (Raffey Cassidy).
Multi-faceted
“The Brutalist”, with ten nominations, arrived as one of the great favorites at the 97th edition of the Academy Awards, including best direction for Corbet, and best film.
To get into Tóth’s skin, Brody took advantage of his family history.
Son of the Jewish professor Elliot Brody and the Hungarian photographer Sylvia Plachy, who emigrated to the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, Brody was born on April 14, 1973 in New York.
“The character of the character reminds me a lot of my mother’s and my ancestors who fled the horrors of the war and came to this great country,” he said upon receiving the Golden Globe.
Brody began taking acting classes in adolescence, and conquered small roles to land in “The murderer’s night” (1999), by Spike Lee, in which he won praise and shared a screen with John Leguizamo and Mira Sorvino.
In 2003, at 29, he became the youngest actor to win an Oscar with “the pianist”, directed by Roman Polanski, and in which he plays a Jewish musician who survives the Nazi occupation of Warsaw in World War II.
This work, Brody said, helped him more easily understanding Toth two decades later.
His stellar moment in the 2003 Oscar gala is also remembered because the actor planted a kiss to the presenter Halle Berry who would become controversial when she admitted that she took her by surprise.
After reaching the top of stardom, he accepted very different roles, such as a young man with intellectual disabilities in the horror tape “La Aldea”, by M. Night Shyamalan; and the writer Jack Driscoll in “King Kong” (2005), which with more than 500 million dollars at the box office, became his most successful commercially.
He was followed by participations in several productions by Wes Anderson, as well as his interpretation of the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí in “Midnight in Paris”, by Woody Allen.
Always active, he highlighted on television on several productions, including the fourth season of “Peaky Blinders” and the “Houdini” miniseries, in which the mythical magician gives life.
Multifaceted, ventured into the catwalks, hugged humanitarian causes, undertook as executive producer of several projects and acted in music videos such as “Let me enter”, by Reggaeton Rauw Alejandro last year.
Brody had a relationship with the Spanish actress and model Elsa Pataky, and since 2020 he is in a couple with the designer Georgina Chapman, ex -wife of the producer fallen in disgrace Harvey Weinstein.
