Guy Pearce Declares He's 'Not Gonna Win' at the Oscars for The Brutalist: 'Kieran Culkin Will Win, Again'

Guy Pearce is making a big prediction about the 2025 Academy Awards.

The Brutalist star, who is nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the upcoming ceremony for his performance in Brady Corbet's epic period drama, told The Guardian in an interview published Monday, Feb. 24, that he has a hunch about who will actually take home the prize.

“I’ve been nominated for a few of these awards, and I haven’t won any!” Pearce, 57, said with a laugh. “I’m not gonna win! Kieran [Culkin] will win, again.”

Admittedly, a loss for A Real Pain star Culkin, 42, would be a substantial upset at the Oscars, considering he has swept the season with victories at the Golden Globe Awards, Critics Choice Awards, BAFTA Awards and, most recently, SAG Awards.

As for whether Pearce has a speech handy in the event he does win, he told The Guardian, “I’ve had one I’ve thought about for the last three months now — haven’t used it once! Nah, I’ll just forget it.”

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Pearce was also nominated at the BAFTA Awards, Golden Globes and SAG Awards alongside Culkin for his role as wealthy industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren in The Brutalist opposite awards-season favorite Adrien Brody in the lead role of László Tóth, a Hungarian-born Jewish architect who emigrates to the U.S. to flee the Holocaust.

At the SAG Awards on Sunday, Feb. 23, Culkin won outstanding performance by a male actor in a supporting role for A Real Pain, in which he stars with the movie's writer/director Jesse Eisenberg.

During his acceptance speech, Culkin noted how "incredibly heavy" the trophy was (and later joked that it was "funny" how his "heaviest of all awards is the one given by actors"), before reminding Brody, 51, of the 45-second "allotted time" for acceptance speeches.

"There was no reason to take that shot; I love you, it's a joke. You take your time," Culkin continued, as Brody laughed from his seat in the audience. "Lord knows I will, 'cause I didn't think of anything."

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In a surprise win, Timothée Chalamet ended up taking the trophy for outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role as a young Bob Dylan in the biopic A Complete Unknown at the SAG Awards, after Brody clinched the lead-actor prize at the previously mentioned ceremonies.