US actor Adrien Brody accepts the award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for "The Brutalist" during the 97th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 2, 2025.—AFP photo

Adrien Brody on Sunday completed his return to the top of Hollywood`s A-list, winning the second best-actor Oscar of his career for his searing portrayal of a Hungarian architect who emigrates to America after World War II in "The Brutalist."

Both of Brody`s Academy Awards have come for Holocaust-related films; he won in 2003 for Roman Polanski`s "The Pianist," becoming the youngest man ever to triumph in the category at age 29.

This time, he bested Timothee Chalamet in Bob Dylan biopic "A Complete Unknown," Ralph Fiennes in papal thriller "Conclave," Sebastian Stan as a young Donald Trump in "The Apprentice" and Colman Domingo as a wrongfully convicted inmate in "Sing Sing."

Source: AFP