Adrien Brody has won his second Oscar for best actor, for his role in Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist.” He beat out Timothée Chalamet (“A Complete Unknown”), Colman Domingo (“Sing Sing”), Ralph Fiennes (“Conclave”) and Sebastian Stan (“The Apprentice”) for the statuette.

It is the second time he has triumphed in the category, this time for his performance in the epic “The Brutalist.”

The film follows a firing-on-all-cylinders Adrien Brody as architect and Hungarian Jewish immigrant László Toth, who abandons post-World War II Europe for Pennsylvania circa 1947. There, he’s commissioned to work for the industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce),