‘The Brutalist’s Brady Corbet Pays Tribute To Jeff Baena, Kevin Turen After Winning Best Director Golden Globe
deadline.comBrady Corbet, whose post-World War II epic The Brutalist has been racking up wins on the awards circuit since its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, won Best Director on Sunday at the Golden Globes.
Corbet, who won the same honor at Venice, beat out a stacked nominees list tonight that included Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez), Sean Baker (Anora), Edward Berger (Conclave), Coralie Fargeat (The Substance) and Payal Kapadia (All We Imagine as Light).
In his acceptance speech, Corbet thanked the Globes for the win that gives his film additional visibility, which “is extraordinarily meaningful for a film like this that once, a few short months ago, had the odds very much stacked against it.” The pic from A24, Corbet’s third feature, centers on Adrien Brody’s László Toth ( Adrien Brody), a Brutalist architect from Hungary attempting to rebuild his life in postwar America.
Initially forced to toil in poverty, he soon wins a contract that will change the course of the next 30 years of his life.The pic, which is 3 hours and 35 minutes, hit theaters December 20 and has grossed $1.77 million globally to date.
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