The Brutalist director Brady Corbet is pictured accepting the best picture - drama award at the 2025 Golden Globes on January 5, 2025.Photo:CBS
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The Brutalistwon the top dramatic spot at this year’sGolden Globe Awardsceremony.
Accepting the prize onstage at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Jan. 5 moments after starAdrien Brodywon the best actor prize was director Brady Corbet, who gave an uplifting speech to fellow filmmakers. Corbet also accepted the best director award earlier on.
“I’m incredibly moved. I prepared one speech, not two,” Corbet began. “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, you know, through thick and thin, really. So thanks to all of you. I really love you all very much. I’m very grateful. This is an extremely well produced film, so I’d like to thank my producers.”
From there, Corbet said, “I just want to leave everyone with something to think about. Final-cut tiebreak goes to the director. That’s sort of a controversial statement. It shouldn’t be controversial at all.”
“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. I don’t resent that, but I want to use this as an opportunity to lift up filmmakers — not just my fellow nominees but all of the extraordinary directors in this room. Films don’t exist without the filmmakers. Please, let’s support them. Let’s prop them up.”
Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones in ‘The Brutalist’.Lol Crawley
Lol Crawley
The Brutaliststars Adrien Brody as a Hungarian-born Jewish architect who emigrates to the U.S. following the Holocaust. It rolled into the Golden Globes ceremony with seven nods, including for Brody and supporting starsFelicity JonesandGuy Pearce.
Also nominated in the best motion picture – drama category wereA Complete Unknown,Conclave,Dune: Part Two,Nickel BoysandSeptember 5.
Edward Norton and Timothée Chalamet in ‘A Complete Unknown’.Macall Polay/Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures
Macall Polay/Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures
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Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci in ‘Conclave’.Courtesy of Focus Features
Courtesy of Focus Features
Director Edward Berger’sConclavecame into the Globes with six nods, including for lead actorRalph Fiennes, supporting actressIsabella Rossellini. Adapted from Robert Harris' novel about the papal conclave, the film imagines a series of twists in the modern-day Vatican City.
Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya in ‘Dune: Part Two’.Niko Tavernise/Warner Bros. Pictures
Niko Tavernise/Warner Bros. Pictures
The Chalamet-ledDune: Part Two, directorDenis Villeneuve’s epic adaptation of the Frank Herbert sci-fi classic, was nominated at the Globes only for motion picture drama and best original score. Hans Zimmer won the latter prize in 2022 forDune: Part One.
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Ethan Herisse in ‘Nickel Boys’.Courtesy of Orion Pictures
Courtesy of Orion Pictures
Nickel Boys, from director RaMell Ross, is a unique screen adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel based on real-life abusive reform schools in America. Nominated solely in the top category at this year’s Globes, the movie stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs andAunjanue Ellis-Taylor.
September 5, likeNickel Boysonly nominated in the best drama picture category, tells the story of the terrorist hostage situation at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich from the perspective of the ABC News team covering it live. The Tim Fehlbaum-directed film starsPeter Sarsgaardand John Magaro.
Peter Sarsgaard in ‘September 5’.Jürgen Olczyk/Paramount Pictures
Jürgen Olczyk/Paramount Pictures
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