Adrien Brody won his first Best Actor Oscar in 2003 for his leading performance in Roman Polanski's The Pianist. This put him in the record books, as Brody became the youngest Best Actor Oscar winner in history at 29 years old.

Here in the final stages of the 2025 Oscar season, several Academy Awards voters have revealed their ballots to Gold Derby, telling us who they voted for – and why. We promised to keep their identities confidential and their comments unfiltered.

The Brutalist used artificial intelligence to adjust Adrien Brody and co-star Felicity Jones’s Hungarian lines. As the roles the two played as Hungarian immigrants earned them best actor and supporting actress nominations,