Adrien Brody has clinched his second Oscar for best actor, winning at Sunday’s 97th Academy Awards for his role as a visionary Hungarian-Jewish architect in “The Brutalist.”

Adrien Brody is walking away with the coveted Best Actor trophy. The star, 51, took home the award for his role as László Tóth in “The Brutalist” at the 2025 Oscars on Sunday night. He beat out Ralph Fiennes (“Conclave”), Timothée Chalamet (“A Complete Unknown”), Sebastian Stan (“The Apprentice”) and Colman Domingo (“Sing Sing”).

The film follows a firing-on-all-cylinders Adrien Brody as architect and Hungarian Jewish immigrant László Toth, who abandons post-World War II Europe for Pennsylvania circa 1947. There, he’s commissioned to work for the industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce),