Adrian Brody, Mikey Madison win best actor Oscars

Adrien Brody won his second best actor Oscar on Sunday for playing an immigrant architect in the epic postwar drama "The Brutalist," while Mikey Madison claimed her first Academy Award, winning best actress for her role in the drama "Anora."

Madison beat "The Substance" actor Demi Moore, Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, Cynthia Erivo of "Wicked" and "Emilia Perez" star Karla Sofia Gascon.

In "Anora," Madison played an exotic dancer named Ani who gets married on a whim to Ivan, a member of a wealthy Russian family. Ivan's family does not respond well to the marriage.

Madison grew up in the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles. At 16, she landed a role on FX television series "Better Things." She also had a small part in Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time ...in Hollywood" and starred in "Scream V."

Brody had previously won for "The Pianist," when he became the youngest best actor winner at age 29.

He joins an elite group of multiple winners in this category that includes Daniel Day-Lewis, Tom Hanks, Anthony Hopkins, Jack Nicholson and Spencer Tracy.

Brody has said his mother escaped from Hungary and moved across the Atlantic, echoing the journey of the character he plays, a modernist architect named Laszlo Toth.

"I understand a great deal about the repercussions of that on her life and her work as an artist," he told reporters at the Venice Film Festival. Brody's mother is the celebrated photographer Sylvia Plachy.

Brody, whose acting credits include numerous roles in Wes Anderson movies, has worked with a who's who of prestige directors including Woody Allen, Peter Jackson, Spike Lee, Barry Levinson, Terrence Malick, Roman Polanski and Steven Soderbergh.