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Adrien Brody: Pianist Brody
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Though his success is only beginning, Adrien Brody has accomplished what no other person has: He won the Oscar for Best Actor when the other four nominees were past award recipients. The Pianist turned his world around, and now the people he once admired are approaching him to tell him that they are fans of him.
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Maybe taking Adrien Brody to an Eastern European-esque restaurant wasn't such a great idea. "A cup of borscht and I'll have a total emotional recall and breakdown," he says, referring to his role as a man who escapes the Warsaw Ghetto scarcely intact in Roman Polanski's The Pianist, a film that has already made him a star overseas and has put his name on critics' shortlists of Academy Award contenders. "You'll say, 'He's so crazy! He's so emotional!'"
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In 2003, Adrien Brody became the youngest winner in history of the Best Actor Oscar for his powerful performance in “The Pianist”. The Roman Polanski-directed war drama launched Brody onto Hollywood’s A-list, and since that film’s success he has impressed in a variety of high-impact roles.
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At the age of 29, in 2003, Adrien Brody became the youngest actor ever to win the Best Actor Academy Award, for his role in The Pianist. He won for his portrayal of Polish-Jewish pianist Wladislaw Szpilman who survived the Holocaust.
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Adrien Brody is an Oscar winner for his role in The Pianist. To promote this movie, Adrien guest-hosted SNL on May/10/2003, but has never returned to host again. See below for a reason.
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Adrien Brody wears silvery sneakers with his black suit. He looks slightly weary, and awaits his pancakes. Aside from time out for making a music video with Tori Amos, for "A Sorta Fairytale" (in which he spends most of his onscreen time as his head attached to a hand, only), Brody has been traveling during the past year, promoting The Pianist.
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