The Brutalist bags awards in best drama film, lead actor and director categories at the 2025 Golden Globes

Brady Corbet's The Brutalist emerged as a winner against all odds after its big wins at the 82nd Golden Globes on January 5, 2025.

The period drama, classified as an 'epic movie' by critics when it opened at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on September 1, 2024, was released in theatres on December 20, 2024.

While The Brutalist suffered many obstacles in production and did not have enough distributors on its initial release, the movie stood by against all these difficulties and emerged as a winner at last night's Golden Globes.

The period drama took home 3 out of seven awards it was nominated for, including Best Actor in a Motion Picture—Drama for Adrien Brody, Best Director for Brady Corbet, and the most important award for 2025 Best Motion Picture—Drama.

Here is how Corbet accepted this big win for The Brutalist with all his cast and crew.

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The Brutalist celebrated big wins at the 82nd Golden Globes

Corbet was awarded the Silver Lion for Best Direction when The Brutalist opened at the Venice Film Festival. This was the first of the many awards that the movie would then go on to receive, which was proved at last night's Globes.

Brady Corbet, the movie's director, was visibly touched when he accepted this award with the film's producers and cast,

“I have to thank everyone up here who, over and over again, bet on this film that kept falling apart, and they stuck with it through thick and thin. I was told that this film was un-distributable. I was told that no one would come out and see it. I was told the film wouldn’t work.”

He added:

“And I don’t resent that, but I want to use this as an opportunity to lift up filmmakers…Films don’t exist without the filmmakers. Please, let’s support them; let’s prop them up. No one was asking for a three-and-a-half-hour film about a mid-century designer on 70 mm [film]. But it works.”

The movie emerged triumphant after beating James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, Edward Berger’s Conclave, RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys, Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5, and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two, who were all nominated for Best Picture.

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Adrien Brody won his first Golden Globe for The Brutalist

Adrien Brody, the star protagonist of the movie, also bagged his first Golden Globe for his role as László Tóth. His character is a Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor who emigrates to the States to achieve the American Dream.

While Brody is highly recognized as a talented actor, who also won an Oscar for his 2002 movie, The Pianist, he discussed how it is a challenge to find such works after a career of many years,

“I’ve had a long life and career and lot of peaks and lot of valleys, it’s given me perspective, it’s given me great appreciation for this moment because it can go away. I’m very grateful. I’ve had a very blessed career, but it’s still a challenge to find work such as this.''

He added:

''You can have a triumph in your life again is healing and rewarding and what it speaks to of my family struggles and the hardships that they faced that have given me firm footing as an American actor.”

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