Adrien Brody and Halle Berry reunite on the Oscars 2025 red carpet years after controversial kiss

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the 2025 Oscars on Sunday over two decades after their controversial kiss onstage at the Academy Awards.Brody, 51, is nominated for Best Actor at this year’s Academy Awards for his performance in “The Brutalist,” his second nomination ever.However, it was Brody’s first Oscars win that was on the mind of many as Berry, 58, was arriving.The pair reunited on the red carpet ahead of Sunday’s ceremony, both smiling as they chatted.

Dressed in a sparkling Christian Siriano gown, Berry patted Brody on the back, saying, “He’s gonna do it.”Brody famously kissed the “Never Let Go” actress in 2003 as he accepted his Oscar for Roman Polanski’s “The Pianist” at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood (then the Kodak Theater), which also played host to the 2025 Academy Awards.Halle Berry and Adrien Brody reunite on the red carpet at the #Oscars pic.twitter.com/rAuzq7YwbWBerry presented the Best Actor award, keeping with Oscars tradition in which the previous year’s acting winners return to present the category for the opposite sex.

Berry made history in 2002 when she took home the Best Actress Oscar for “Monster’s Ball,” becoming the first Black actress to take home that trophy.“If you’re known by the company you keep, tonight’s recipient of the Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor will be known as a major, major player,” Berry said before introducing the 2003 nominees.After Berry announced Brody as the winner, the actor rushed onstage, embraced Berry and kissed her passionately for several seconds, even dipping the star as they locked lips. “I bet they didn’t tell you that was in the gift bag,” he told Berry, who looked shocked as she wiped her lips.At just 29, Brody became the youngest Best Actor winner in Oscars history.