Brody, who won best actor for his role in “The Brutalist,” broke a record set by actor Greer Garson in 1943 at a non-televised Oscars.
Adrien Brody, who in 2003 became the youngest person to collect a best actor Oscar, broke another record while accepting his second statuette Sunday.
The actor, who won for his role in Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist,” spoke onstage for five minutes and 40 seconds, making the longest acceptance speech in academy history.
British actor Greer Garson previously held the title, according to the Guinness World Records. She gave an acceptance speech lasting five minutes and 30 seconds during the 1943 Oscars after winning for her performance in “Mrs. Miniver.” The Oscars were not televised at that time. (The ceremony was first televised in 1953, according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.)
Guinness World Records has not updated its online entry for “Longest speech accepting an Oscar award,” but many Oscars viewers pointed out that Brody’s lengthy speech likely surpassed others in recent awards show history.
The academy does not publicly share an official cutoff time for speeches. A spokesperson for the academy did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for Guinness World Records also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Typically, however, Oscars winners are given about 45 seconds to speak before a signature swell of music begins to play, encouraging them to wrap up and make their way off the stage.
But when the music started playing during Brody’s speech, it appeared he had no intention of letting it drown out his celebration.
“I’m wrapping up. I will wrap up; turn the music off. I’ve done this before,” Brody said as the music began playing during his speech. “Thank you. It’s not my first rodeo, but I will be brief. I will not be egregious, I promise.”
This wasn’t the first time Brody went into overtime during an acceptance speech.
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While accepting the best actor award for his performance in “The Pianist” in 2003, Brody responded to the traditional music cutoff by saying, “One second, please. One second. Cut it out. I got one shot at this. I didn’t say more than five names, I don’t think.”
This awards season, the actor’s peers have also poked fun at him for his tendency to go over the allotted speech time.
Kieran Culkin, who took home the Academy Award for best supporting actor Sunday for his performance in “A Real Pain,” had nodded to Brody’s tendency during his own acceptance speech at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Feb. 23.
As Culkin accepted the award for outstanding performance by a male actor in a supporting role, he joked about the weight of the award, saying, “Thank you for this incredibly heavy award.”
“I don’t think there’s any way anyone can hold this for 45 seconds … which is the allotted time, Adrien Brody — 45 seconds,” Culkin said.
The cameras cut to Brody in the crowd, who was laughing and smiling at the quip.
On Sunday, Brody used his acceptance speech as an opportunity to recognize the two-decade gap in his Academy Awards success, calling acting “a fragile profession.”
“One thing I’ve gained, having the privilege to come back here is to have some perspective and no matter where you are in your career, no matter what you’ve accomplished, it can all go away,” Brody said. “I think what makes this night most special is the awareness of that and the gratitude that I have to still to do the work that I love.”
“The Brutalist,” a sweeping epic about a (fictional) Hungarian Jewish architect who attempts to rebuild his life in the United States after World War II, took home three Oscars.
