Adrien Brody has won the Best Actor Oscar for his turn in A24’s The Brutalist, clinching the statuette two decades after his first win for Roman Polanski’s The Pianist. “I’m here once again to represent the lingering traumas and the repercussions of war and systematic oppression and of antisemitism and racism and othering,

Adrien Brody just won his second Best Actor Oscar for his performance as Hungarian-Jewish architect László Tóth in The Brutalist. In his speech, Brody first thanked God for his blessed life. “I feel so fortunate.