Adrien Brody won his second Oscar at the 2025 Academy Awards, where his leading turn in Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” won the best actor prize. His buzzy acceptance speech was proceeded by one of the ceremony’s most viral moments: Brody was chewing gum when his name was called,

Brody's speech clocked in at five minutes and forty seconds—which, according to Guinness World Records, makes it the longest speech given in the history of the ceremony.