Adrien Brody won the Academy Award for Best Actor for “Revenge Kiss” and “Throwing Gum at Girlfriend”.
The longest speech in Academy Award history at 5 minutes and 40 seconds.
Brody also “got his ass handed to him” on his way up the stairs to the stage after his name was called for Best Actor. He turned around, took a piece of gum out of his mouth, and threw it to his girlfriend Georgina, who caught it on the TV broadcast. The scene caused a firestorm on the Internet and elsewhere.
In addition, Brody caused a stir during his acceptance speech for the Best Actor award, which lasted 5 minutes and 40 seconds, the longest speech in the history of the past 97 Academy Awards. The previous record was said to be 5 minutes and 30 seconds when Greer Garson won the Best Actress award for “Mrs. Miniver” in 1943.
In her speech, Brody also thanked her partner Georgina and her two children with her imprisoned ex-boyfriend Harvey Weinstein,
He said, “I know it’s been a roller coaster ride. Thank you for letting me into your life.”
He stated. He then discussed racism against Jews and others, which is a theme of “The Brutalist,
If the past can teach us anything, it is that we must not let hate go unchecked.
He appealed to the audience.
This year’s Academy Awards did not have a major contender like last year’s “Oppenheimer,” which won a record seven awards. However, “ANORA,” which won five awards, including Best Picture, for the tumultuous love romance between a New York stripper and the prodigal son of a Russian billionaire, and “Emilia Perez,” in which a drug lord has a sex change and becomes a woman. A COMPLETE UNKNOWN,” in which Timothée Chalamet plays a young Bob Dylan; “Papal Election,” a fishy behind-the-scenes look at the papal election after the death of the Pope; “Substance,” starring Demi Moore; and Ariana Grande’s operatic singing of another dimension in ” Wicked: Two Witches,” and many others were unique and full of charm.
Among them, “The Brutalist” is a blockbuster of 3 hours and 35 minutes with an intermission. Brody passionately plays a genius Hungarian-Jewish architect with a deadly passion for grand architecture in a foreign land. He was the sole winner of this year’s Academy Awards for his role in the revenge kiss fiasco with Hal, the gum-throwing and the longest speech in history.
Text: Ryo Sakamoto (Former head of Culture and Society Department, Tokyo Sports Newspaper) PHOTO: REX/Afro