Main actor Oscars: Prices for Mikey Madison and Adrien Brody

At the 97th edition of the Academy Awards on the night of March 3, controversies in both main actor categories caused an exciting Oscar race in advance. In the women, “Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofía Gascón (52) literally shot himself with the highly questionable tweets. And for men, the men had reacted to the use of AI to perfect Hungarian spoken by Adrien Brody (51) in “the brutalist”. Two very different circumstances that should also have a different effect on the award ceremony.

First, the question was answered who can receive the price in the “Best main actor” category. “Oppenheimer” star Cillian Murphy (48) entered the stage for this and finally read Brody as the now two-time award winner. During the acceptance speech, he felt like he was based on the length of his almost four -hour film “The Brutalist”. In the meantime, attempts have been made to choke Brody with an orchestra. But he simply waved this off with a casual hand movement and, as the only person in the evening, managed to put the orchestra into his place.

“Best main actor” – the other nominees

Timothée Chalamet, “A Complete Unknown”

Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing”

Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave”

Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice”

There was a much greater surprise among the main actresses. Demi Moore (62) for “The Substance” was ahead with many bookmakers, but ultimately the prize was snapped away by the youngest: last year’s winner Emma Stone (36), Mikey Madison (25) read as the winner. She received the Oscar for her performance as a young sex worker in “Anora” and thus contributed to the fact that the film by Sean Baker (54) became the clearer of the evening with a total of five awards.

“Best main actress” – the other nominees

Demi Moore, “The Substance”

Karla Sofía Gascón, “Emilia Pérez”

Fernanda Torres, “Forever here”