Despite winning his second Oscar, actor Adrien Brody is being criticized by some American newspapers for his inappropriate behavior during the awards ceremony.

Adrien Brody threw chewing gum at his girlfriend before giving his Oscar acceptance speech – Photo: REUTERS

After the Oscars, actor Adrien Brody became a controversial name despite his great achievement of winning the Oscar for Best Actor twice.

Gum Throwing 

After hugging and sharing joy with the people around him, Brody walked up to the stage but suddenly remembered that he was chewing gum, he turned around and spit out the gum, throwing it at his girlfriend Georgina Chapman. His girlfriend ran out but couldn’t catch up, the gum fell to the floor.

“It was so rude of Adrien Brody to throw gum at his girlfriend like that”, “I want to know what was going through Adrien Brody’s mind when he decided to throw gum at his girlfriend in the front row”, “I hate this moment so much”… are some of the comments.

The moment was criticized by many netizens for being impolite – Photo: Cut from clip

Speaking backstage on Live with Kelly and Mark shortly after his Oscar win , Brody recalled the gum-throwing incident. “I could have swallowed it, but I didn’t think about it. I had to throw it away somehow,” he said.

Despite admiring Brody for his two Oscar wins for best actor, many viewers still couldn’t ignore the fact that he acted rudely on live television, in a show that was announced to have 1 billion viewers.

However, many people also have the opinion that they completely share Brody’s action of throwing the gum, because at that moment he was probably too happy and confused about how to deal with the gum.

Is the nearly 6 minute speech too self-indulgent?

After the Oscars, Brody became the center of controversy for giving the longest speech in the history of the awards ceremony, and according to The Daily Beast , the worst speech in history.

According to the site, in just 5 minutes and 40 seconds on stage, The Brutalist actor did everything an awards show should not do. “It was smug, rambling, and self-important without any real substance – and way too long,” the site commented on the speech.

When the orchestra played the time-out signal, Brody asked to “turn off the music” and added “I’ve done this before. Thanks” (referring to the fact that he had won an Oscar once).

Adrien Brody suddenly kissed Halle Berry when receiving the Oscar in 2003. Every time he receives an Oscar, he causes controversy – Photo: AFP

Brody thanked his colleagues and family like other winners, but his talking too much about himself made some viewers think he was arrogant.

“It’s not a bad thing to take your craft too seriously. It’s an admirable quality that your peers certainly respect (see Timothée Chalamet’s SAG acceptance speech when he talked about wanting to be “one of the greats”).

But it takes grace and preparation to convey that without falling into stuffy complacency. And who does that for nearly five minutes?” – The Daily Beast commented.

This site claims that there have been many self-satisfied Oscar speeches over the past 97 years, but Adrien Brody’s speech was the longest.

Because of this incident, many people recalled the situation where Adrien Brody suddenly kissed Halle Berry , the person presenting him with the award, when receiving the Best Actor award at the 2003 Oscars for his role in The Pianist. This situation was also considered offensive and controversial at the time.