Adrien Brody Also Has a Record to Break If He Wins an Oscar
As the award’s frontrunner for his role in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, he’s very likely to do so after all.
This year’s upcoming Oscar ceremony holds a lot of its records to be potentially broken, and in the Best Actor category this doesn’t only concern Timothée Chalamet.
The latter, nominated for his role of Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, currently shares his high chances to win the award with Adrien Brody who also might take the statuette home thanks to the leading role in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist.
The actor has so far swept all the major awards in the category (except for the latest SAG Awards that went to Chalamet) and is getting even closer to the big win, also with a potential to break yet another record in the Academy Awards history.
Adrien Brody Has One of the Longest Screentime Among Best Actor Nominees
Ahead of the ceremony that will take place this Sunday, a new exciting update about Brody’s nomination emerged as, according to Matthew Stewart’s post on X, the actor’s screen time in The Brutalist reaches 2 hours 8 minutes 30 seconds in total, which is almost 60% of the entire movie.
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Brody’s performance joins the not so long list of Oscar-nominated actors with the longest screen time which includes Denzel Washington in Malcolm X (2 hours 21 minutes 58 seconds), Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street (2 hours 21 minutes 7 seconds), Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia (2 hours 13 minutes 13 seconds) and Anthony Hopkins in Nixon (2 hours 4 minutes).
Additionally, Brody is now one of only 10 Oscar nominees that received their Academy nods for movies with over 2 hours of those actors’ screen time.
This Won’t Be the First Record Break for Adrien Brody
If the stars do align for the actor’s win in the Best Actor category, he will break yet another Oscar record after his first win back in 2003.
At the age of 29, Brody received his first Oscar for Best Actor for the role of Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski’s 2002 musical drama The Pianist, becoming the youngest actor to win in the category.
This year, however, things might still shift if the Academy chooses Timothée Chalamet as its ultimate winner; in this case, the latter will be the one to break his co-nominee’s record by becoming the new youngest actor to receive the statuette.
The Oscars ceremony is now scheduled to take place on March 2.