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Monday, January 6, 2025
Golden Globes: Adrien Brody wins best actor for Jewish role in ‘The Brutalist,’ Kieran Culkin nabs best supporting actor for ‘A Real Pain’
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US actor Adrien Brody wins a Golden Globe for best actor in a drama for his role as a Hungarian Jewish architect who survives the Holocaust and emigrates to the United States in period epic “The Brutalist,” which also wins best drama film and best director for Brady Corbet, in a successful evening for the movie as one of the night’s top winners.
Brody beats Timothee Chalamet for his role in “A Complete Unknown,” Daniel Craig for “Queer,” Colman Domingo in “Sing Sing,” Ralph Fiennes for papal thriller “Conclave,” and Sebastian Stan for Donald Trump biopic “The Apprentice.”
In winning best drama film, “The Brutalist,” which clocks in at more than 3.5 hours, bests Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” papal intrigue “Conclave,” sci-fi epic “Dune: Part Two,” race-infused reform school piece “Nickel Boys” and “September 5,” which charts the massacre of Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Kieran Culkin wins best supporting actor for Jesse Eisenberg’s awkward road trip comedy “A Real Pain,” about mismatched American cousins retracing their family’s Holocaust history.
In the best comedy or musical film, the winner is surreal narco-musical “Emilia Perez,” about a Mexican drug lord who undergoes surgery to live life as a woman, beating “Anora,” “Challengers,” “A Real Pain,” “The Substance,” and “Wicked.” Jacques Audiard’s genre-defying work wins four trophies overall.
The gala features Gal Gadot, who presents an award shortly after posting on Instagram about the plight of Liri Albag and the other hostages. There are several minor pro-Palestinian gestures in an Artists4Ceasefire pin worn by Australian actor Guy Pearce and American screenwriter Justin Halpern.
The Times of Israel Community.