In 2003, Adrian Brody won the 75th Academy Award for his role as Holocaust survivor Valadisrow Spielman in The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski, becoming the youngest actor to become emperor to date at the age of 29 and 343 days. In recent years, he has always liked to try new things, he has starred in two Chinese films, "1942" and "Tianjiang Xiongshi", and won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 16th Huading Awards for "Tianjiang Xiongshi".
Born on April 14, 1973 in New York, USA, Brody aspired to be an actor since childhood. His mother, the famous photographer Sylvia Pleci, saw Brody's talent for acting and encouraged him to take various acting classes, sending him to the High School of Performing Arts and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In 1993, Browdy participated in "King of the Hills" directed by the famous director Steven Soderberg, and his outstanding performance won acclaim and many new opportunities.
In the next 5 years, it became his pleasure to try different roles, including athletes, addicts, gamblers, poets and other different characters. Even the big directors Spike Lee, Terrence Malik, and Ken Roach noticed him. "Thin Red Line" is the first "blockbuster" he starred in, he himself played very hard, but became the biggest unlucky egg, after the film was cut, almost no role for him.
In 2003, Brody played Holocaust survivor Valadisrow Spitman in The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski. In order to play this role, he sold his house and car and went to France to shoot films. During the seven or eight weeks of filming, I had to practice the piano for four hours a day.
In order to meet the role image and diet, he is 1.83 meters tall and weighs only 61 kilograms. With this role, he was nominated for an Oscar for the first time and succeeded, becoming the youngest film emperor in oscar history.
The victory was really hard won, because the other four nominees in that year, Jack Nicholson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Michael Kane and Nicolas Cage, were all past movie stars.
When he heard his name, his eyes widened in disbelief, and after he took the stage, he more excitedly hugged the award presenter Harley Berry Bear and kissed him passionately, causing the woman to be "frightened" too much and her legs were weak and almost spread on the ground.
He also won the American Film Critics Association Best Actor Award, the Boston Film Critics Association Award, the British Academy Award, the Screen Actors Guild Award, and the Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor for this role, known as the "French Oscar" César Film Award, and also awarded the film emperor laurel to a foreign actor for the first time.
A film that makes an actor can be both a good thing and a bad thing at the same time. From then on, it seems that he will have to carry the reputation of "pianist" for the rest of his life. As he himself puts it: "A lot of people mistake me for a European actor, which is funny and in a way can be seen as a compliment." It's just that the role of pianist doesn't represent who I am, and certainly not my abilities. ”
After the age of 35, Brody showed a strong interest in horror films, taking over films such as "The Messenger", "Human-Beast Hybrid", "Predator", "Death Experiment" and so on, and the taste seemed to be getting heavier and heavier. Among them, he challenged the Role of Schwarzenegger in "Predator", seemingly to prove to the world that he could be an action star who looked thin, "People often say that I am too thin, in fact I am not thin at all, if the comments are always entangled in this, then I will feel that as an actor I am fully capable of presenting myself to people." 」 ”
In recent years, he has successively filmed "1942" directed by Feng Xiaogang and Jackie Chan action film "Tianjiangxiongshi", and also won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 16th Huading Awards for "Tianjiangxiongshi". After winning the award, he expressed his gratitude to Jackie Chan for teaching him kung fu in the film, and thanked the first director Feng Xiaogang to lead him to the Chinese film market.