The youngest Best Actor Oscar winners of all time include Adrien Brody, James Stewart, Marlon Brando, Nicolas Cage and Clark Gable.

Like the pirate code, that 45-second speech timer is really more of a guideline. After refraining from kissing Cillian Murphy ( hypocrite! ), Adrien Brody said he’d make his acceptance speech for Best Actor brief. Then he did not. Perhaps in honor of his 215-minute film, The Brutalist, Brody talked so long he broke a record.

Adrien Brody has won his second Oscar for best actor, for his role in Brady Corbet’s “ The Brutalist .” He beat out Timothée Chalamet (“A Complete Unknown”), Colman Domingo (“Sing Sing”), Ralph Fiennes (“Conclave”) and Sebastian Stan (“The Apprentice”) for the statuette.

Brody twice demanded that the orchestra stop trying to play him off so he could continue talking for a record-breaking 5-plus minutes.

The youngest Oscar winner at 29 for 'The Pianist,' Brody won best actor for 'The Brutalist' at 51 — a win for the AARP generations

Earning his second Best Actor Oscar 22 years after his first, Adrien Brody entered the history books as the first leading actor to win two statuettes on his first two attempts on Sunday.

Adrien Brody has clinched his second Oscar for best actor, winning at Sunday’s 97th Academy Awards for his role as a visionary Hungarian-Jewish architect in “The Brutalist.”

Brody, who owns a historical mansion in Vienna, N.Y., took home the Best Actor trophy for his performance in “The Brutalist.” It’s his second Oscar win, after previously becoming the youngest actor to win the category for “The Pianist,” another Holocaust film, in 2003.

Adrien Brody's second Best Actor Oscar has made history, and maybe now he will reach the same level of fame that he should have had in 2003.

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The Brutalist, a historical epic set in Doylestown, earns Adrien Brody his second Oscar for Best Actor, writes Nick Vadala for The Philadelphia Inquirer.