Director Brady Corbet sought to allay fears, clarifying, “The aim was to preserve the authenticity of Adrien and Felicity’s performances in another language, not to replace or

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,

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. He won for his role as an ingenious, haunted architect in Brady Corbet’s epic, following his win in 2003 for Roman Polanski’s biographical World War II drama “The Pianist.”