Adrien Brody shouted out his girlfriend Georgina Chapman and his parents at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards!
As Brody, 51, accepted the Sunday, Jan. 5 ceremony’s award for best dramatic movie actor for his performance in The Brutalist, the actor took the stage at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles and thanked Chapman, 48, as well as his parents for their impact on his life.
“To my beautiful and amazing partner Georgina, your generosity of spirit, your own resilience, your immense creativity are a daily reminder of how to be,” Brody said in his speech as he appeared to tear up. “I would not be standing here before you if it wasn’t for you. There was a time not too long ago that I felt that this may never be a moment afforded to me again, so thank you.”
Adrien Brody on Jan. 5, 2025. CBS
Brody and Chapman were first linked romantically in 2019; PEOPLE confirmed the pair were in a relationship in February 2020. The romance made for Chapman’s first since she split from disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein in 2017 after he was accused of sexual assault by multiple women. The former couple — who share two children — wed in 2007 and finalized their divorce in 2021.
Elsewhere in Brody’s speech, the actor credited his parents as they looked on in the room, saying, “Oh my goodness, you always hold me up.” “I often credit my mother for her influence on me as an artist but dad, you are the foundation of this family, and all the love I receive flows back to you,” he said.
“This story is really the character’s journey is very reminiscent of my mother’s and my ancestral journey of fleeing the horrors of war coming to this great country and you know, I owe so much to my mother and my grandparents for their sacrifice,” he added. “Although I do not know fully how to express all of the challenges that you have faced and experienced and the many people who have struggled immigrating to this country, I hope that this work stands to lift you up and to give you a voice. I’m so grateful. I will cherish this moment forever, thank you.”
Alessandro Nivola and Adrien Brody in ‘The Brutalist’. A24/Lol Crawley
Also nominated in the category by were Timothée Chalamet for A Complete Unknown, Daniel Craig for Queer, Colman Domingo for Sing Sing, Ralph Fiennes for Conclave and Sebastian Stan for The Apprentice.
Before its Nikki Glaser-hosted ceremony, which aired on CBS and Paramount+, the 82nd annual Golden Globes announced its nominations on Dec. 9, with Emilia Pérez topping the movies list and Hulu comedy The Bear topping TV categories.
Brody, 51, leads The Brutalist as László Tóth, a Hungarian-born Jewish architect who emigrates to the U.S. to flee the Holocaust. Last nominated for a Golden Globe for 2002’s The Pianist, he also won the Best Actor Oscar for that film. His new historical drama, from director and co-writer Brady Corbet, came into the Golden Globes ceremony with seven nods, including for supporting stars Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce.
Timothée Chalamet in ‘A Complete Unknown’. Searchlight Pictures/Youtube
Capping off a busy year for Chalamet, 29, who led both A Complete Unknown and Dune: Part Two, the actor earned his fourth Golden Globe nod for his performance as Bob Dylan in the former. Directed by James Mangold (Walk the Line), the music biopic depicts the singer-songwriter in the 1960s, alongside fellow Globe nominee Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo and more.
Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey in ‘Queer’. Yannis Drakoulidis
Craig, 56, starred in Luca Guadagnino’s William S. Burroughs adaptation Queer opposite Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman and Lesley Manville. Filmed in between Knives Out installments, the dramatic period piece marked Craig’s third nomination from the Golden Globes, plus a Critics Choice nomination and win from the National Board of Review.
Colman Domingo in ‘Sing Sing’. A24
Appearing at the Golden Globes for the second year in a row following his nominated work as Bayard Rustin in Rustin, Domingo, 55, is wracking up awards recognition for his work as the formerly incarcerated John “Divine G” Whitfield in Sing Sing. The Emmy winner and Oscar nominee’s performance has earned love from the Gotham Awards, Critics Choice Awards, and Film Independent Spirit Awards in addition to the Globe nod.
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Ralph Fiennes in ‘Conclave’. Courtesy of Focus Features
The Globe recognition for Fiennes, 62, is one of many for the papal drama Conclave, which earned six nods including for director Edward Berger and supporting actress Isabella Rossellini. Adapted from Robert Harris’ hit novel, the film imagines a series of twists in the modern-day Vatican City. Fiennes, a two-time Oscar nominee, now has seven total acting nods from the Golden Globes — with still no wins.
Stan, 42, went into this year’s Golden Globes a leading man nominee two times over, for playing both an actor undergoing transformation in A Different Man and a young Donald Trump in director Ali Abbasi’s biopic The Apprentice. Both constitute the Marvel star’s second and third nods from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Sebastian Stan in ‘The Apprentice’. Briarcliff Entertainment
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