Brady Corbet Uses The Brutalist Best Picture Golden Globe Win to 'Lift Up' Others: 'I Was Told My Film Wouldn't Work'

The Brutalist won the top dramatic spot at this year’s Golden Globe Awards ceremony.

Accepting the prize onstage at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Jan. 5 moments after star Adrien Brodywon the best actor prize was director Brady Corbet, who gave an uplifting speech to fellow filmmakers. Corbet also accepted the best director award earlier on.

"I'm incredibly moved. I prepared one speech, not two," Corbet began. "I have to thank everyone up here who, over and over again, bet on this film that kept falling apart and they stuck with it, you know, through thick and thin, really. So thanks to all of you. I really love you all very much. I'm very grateful. This is an extremely well produced film, so I'd like to thank my producers."

From there, Corbet said, "I just want to leave everyone with something to think about. Final-cut tiebreak goes to the director. That's sort of a controversial statement. It shouldn't be controversial at all."

"I was told that this film was un-distributable. I was told that no one would come out and see it. I was told the film wouldn’t work. I don’t resent that, but I want to use this as an opportunity to lift up filmmakers — not just my fellow nominees but all of the extraordinary directors in this room. Films don’t exist without the filmmakers. Please, let’s support them. Let’s prop them up.”

The Brutalist stars Adrien Brody as a Hungarian-born Jewish architect who emigrates to the U.S. following the Holocaust. It rolled into the Golden Globes ceremony with seven nods, including for Brody and supporting stars Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce. 

Also nominated in the best motion picture – drama category were A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Dune: Part Two, Nickel Boys and September 5.

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Music biopic A Complete Unknown stars Timothée Chalamet as 1960s-era Bob Dylan. Golden Globe-nominated for Chalamet and supporter Edward Norton’s performance as Pete Seeger, the film is helmed by director and co-writer James Mangold (Walk the Line).

Director Edward Berger’s Conclave came into the Globes with six nods, including for lead actor Ralph Fiennes, supporting actress Isabella Rossellini. Adapted from Robert Harris' novel about the papal conclave, the film imagines a series of twists in the modern-day Vatican City.

The Chalamet-led Dune: Part Two, director Denis Villeneuve’s epic adaptation of the Frank Herbert sci-fi classic, was nominated at the Globes only for motion picture drama and best original score. Hans Zimmer won the latter prize in 2022 for Dune: Part One.

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Nickel Boys, from director RaMell Ross, is a unique screen adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel based on real-life abusive reform schools in America. Nominated solely in the top category at this year’s Globes, the movie stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor.

September 5, like Nickel Boys only nominated in the best drama picture category, tells the story of the terrorist hostage situation at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich from the perspective of the ABC News team covering it live. The Tim Fehlbaum-directed film stars Peter Sarsgaard and John Magaro.

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