Richard Brody Presents the 2025 Brody Awards

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🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Oscar who? The film critic—a true believer in the art of cinema—picks the winners of the most coveted award of all: The Brodys.

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0:00.0	Listener supported WNYC Studios.
0:07.0	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:16.0	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour.
0:24.7	I'm David Remnick, and it is that time of year again.
0:27.8	It's awards season, and I'm joined by two of the New Yorkers critics,
0:31.7	Alexandra Schwartz, co-host of our podcast, Critics at Large, and film critic Richard Brody.
0:39.3	We're going to talk about the past year at the movies and the prospects for the Academy Awards, but much more importantly,
0:43.9	Richard Brody will pick the winners of the award we call the Brody. The Brodies are far more
0:50.2	exclusive and more coveted than the Oscars, of course, though they don't have the little
0:54.0	statue guy to go with it. This is an annual tradition here at the New Yorker Radio Hour. Richard,
0:59.4	how many years have we been doing the Brodies?
1:01.7	Seven, eight? Seven or eight years? My God. We're getting close to a decade. It's true.
1:07.4	Now, first, let's talk about the other award show, the Oscars. So let's let's have Alex talk to the Brutelist. Why would the Brutalist be a favorite? Because you've written about it quite wonderfully for The New Yorker. Yes, I profile the director Brady Corbe. I mean, it's a small movie comparatively. It was on a $10 million budget, but it is a huge movie both thematically and in its form. It is close to four hours when you include its 15-minute intermission. And rather than scare away audiences, this seems to have enticed people. You know, it's an immigration story. It's the story of a Jewish architect following World War II. So it has a lot of themes that Hollywood might like or consider certainly to be serious.
1:48.8	And it's really being hailed as a filmmaker's film.
1:53.9	So.
1:54.2	Uh-oh.
1:55.8	As opposed to a shoemaker's film?
1:58.2	Well, as opposed to, as opposed to, you know, Brady Corbe, both in his profile to me and more
2:03.8	generally has talked quite a lot about how much importance he gives to creative control to having
2:08.5	final cut.
2:09.2	This was a theme of his speech at the Golden Globes, where he won for Best Director, for instance.
2:13.3	He does not wish to, you know, compromise his filmmaking ideals to make a movie that might be more palatable to studios or to audiences.
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