Adrien Brody delivered the longest speech in the history of the Oscar on Sunday, breaking a record for more than 80 years with his monologue by accepting the statuette of the best actor.
The star of The brutalist It promised several times to be brief, but spent five minutes and 40 seconds on stage. Ten more than Gerer Garson, British actress whose record dates from 1943.
It is for her that the academy had created time limits for the speeches of the winners, and established the custom that consists of throwing music to invite them to leave the scene.
But on Sunday, Adrien Brody interrupted the orchestra.
“Please stop the music. I have already done that,” the actor launched, already rewarded with the price of the best actor in 2003 for The pianist.
“I will be shortly”
“I am not in my first attempt, but I will be brief,” he promised, before continuing his diatribe for 90 seconds.
His monologue has shown similarities with The brutalistA large 3:30 am fresco with entrance, produced by Brady Corbet, an idealistic and uncompromising filmmaker.
The actor plays a Hungarian architect surviving the Holocaust, who tries to reconstruct his life in the United States after World War II.
Adrien Brody thanked more than a dozen people in his speech, even in particular Brady Corbet, the other star of the film Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones, his parents and his partner Georgina Chapman and even their children (whom he had with Harvey Weinstein).
The chewing chewing issue
Before taking the stage, the actor told him his gum at the last moment, leaving him after getting up. A strange moment, which he returned on Monday during an interview on the ABC channel.
“I forgot that I chewed gum,” he said. “I had to get rid of that in one way or another!”
This did not prevent him from concluding his diatribe in a political note, with a barely veiled allusion to the anti-immigration offensive directed by Donald Trump from his return to power.
“If the past can teach us something, it is to remind us that we do not let hate be expressed without control,” he said.
Presented for the first time by Conan O’Brien, the 97th Oscar ceremony extended for almost four hours and aroused mixed criticism. Variety discovered that the humorist had “succeeded in his debut”, while The Hollywood Reporter judged the “unequal” show.
The number of fashion people in front of their screen to see the ceremony decreases slightly compared to last year, with 18.1 million American viewers according to ABC, against 19.5 million in 2024.
Audate had fallen up to 10.4 million during the pandemia, while the Oscars gathered more than 40 million viewers.
Another sequence has aroused many comments. After the ceremony, actress Halle Berry came to kiss Adrien Brody in her mouth. A kiss in the form of revenge: 22 years ago, when Adrien Brody won his first Oscar, it was Halle Berry who had given it. The actor had hugged him by surprise.
Source: BFM TV
