The Brutalist
2024 film by Brady Corbet
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| 2025 | Yorgos Lanthimos films 'Bugonia' using the VistaVision format, following the cinematographic influence of 'The Brutalist'. |
| 2025 | Paul Thomas Anderson uses VistaVision format to film 'One Battle After Another', inspired by the revival of interest triggered by 'The Brutalist'. |
| April 2025 | Urban List included The Brutalist on its list of '14 of The Best Cinematography Movies Ever Made'. |
| March 2025 | The New York Times listed The Brutalist among 'The Movies We've Loved Since 2000'. |
| 2025 | The film won three Academy Awards at the 97th Academy Awards: Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, and Best Actor for Adrien Brody. |
| 2025 | The film won three awards at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama. |
| February 2025 | The film was featured in the Limelight section of the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam. |
| January 2025 | Named 'One of the Best Films of the 21st Century' by Coachella Valley Independent. |
| January 24 2025 | Film was released in the United Kingdom by Focus Features through Universal Pictures International. |
| January 23 2025 | Film was released in Hungary by UIP-DunaFilm. |
| January 2025 | The film was screened in IMAX theaters nationwide throughout January. |
| 2024 | The Brutalist received ten nominations at the 97th Academy Awards. |
| 2024 | Included in NPR's list of the best movies and TV of 2024. |
| 2024 | The film grossed $50.1 million against a $9.6 million net budget, becoming Brady Corbet's highest grossing film. |
| 2024 | Nominated for nine awards at the 30th Critics' Choice Awards. |
| 2024 | RogerEbert.com ranked The Brutalist in the top slot of their Ten Best Films of 2024, determined by Borda count of the site's writers. |
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Multiple notable filmmakers including Tim Fehlbaum, Drew Goddard, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Don Hertzfeldt, Matt Johnson, Karyn Kusama, David Lowery, Lance Oppenheim, Paul Schrader, Celine Song, Oliver Stone, and Malcolm Washington cited The Brutalist as among their favorite films of the year.
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| 2024 | NPR included The Brutalist in their list of the best movies and TV of the year, with critic Bob Mondello praising it as 'Gorgeous, conceptually stunning, and dizzying in its savagery about cracks in the foundation of the American dream'. |
| 2024 | The film won three awards at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama. |
| 2024 | Film received ten nominations at the 97th Academy Awards, winning three for Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, and Best Actor for Adrien Brody. |
| 2024 | Named one of the top ten films of 2024 by the American Film Institute. |
| December 2024 | Topped Collider's list of the '10 Best Drama Movies of the Last 25 Years'. |
| December 20 2024 | The Brutalist was released in the United States by A24. |
| December 20 2024 | Film was released in the United States by A24. |
| September 2024 | A24 acquired U.S. distribution rights to the film for $10–15 million in a competitive situation. |
| September 6 2024 | The film was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. |
| September 1 2024 | The Brutalist premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, where director Brady Corbet was awarded the Silver Lion for Best Direction. |
| 2023 | Architectural historian Jean-Louis Cohen passed away during the research phase for the film 'The Brutalist', after consulting with the filmmakers about the historical context of architects in the post-war period. |
| May 5 2023 | Principal photography concluded after 34 days, with a small camera unit having also filmed exteriors in New York City, including the Statue of Liberty reveal in the opening scene. |
| April 29 2023 | Production moved to Carrara, Tuscany, with filming taking place in the Bettogli and Bombarda quarries in unexpected thick fog, as well as in the town of Carrara itself. |
| April 11 2023 | Major cast changes were announced, with Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Jonathan Hyde, Emma Laird, and Peter Polycarpou replacing the previous cast. The film's production companies were also updated, with new co-producers and financiers confirmed. |
| March 16 2023 | Principal photography began in Budapest, Hungary, with the city and surrounding countryside serving as a stand-in for 1950s Philadelphia and rural Pennsylvania. |
| March 9 2023 | Key crew members were announced: Lol Crawley as director of photography, Dávid Jancsó as editor, and Kate Forbes as costume designer. |
| 2022 | Director Brady Corbet denied AI usage for architectural renderings, stating all images were hand-drawn by artists. |
| 2022 | Production designer Judy Becker claimed that the film's architecture consultant used Midjourney AI to create three brutalist buildings quickly. |
| 2022 | Filmmaker article discusses use of AI-generated architectural blueprints by the film's production design team, which was later contested by the director. |
| September 2020 | Director Corbet shot the film's epilogue in Venice. |
| September 2 2020 | Deadline announced the initial cast, including Joel Edgerton and Marion Cotillard as leads László and Erzsébet Tóth, with Mark Rylance cast as László's mysterious client. Additional cast members included Sebastian Stan, Vanessa Kirby, Isaach De Bankolé, Alessandro Nivola, Raffey Cassidy, and Stacy Martin. |
| 2019 | Director Brady Corbet dedicated the film to Scott Walker, who died this year and had previously scored Corbet's films. |
| September 2018 | Deadline reported that director Brady Corbet had chosen 'The Brutalist' as his next film project after the world premiere of his second feature film, Vox Lux. The film was initially developed by New York-based Andrew Lauren Productions with Corbet and co-written with his partner Mona Fastvold. |
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