The actor's mother and father were in the audience and shown applauding as Brody gave them his heartfelt thanks.

“It has been decades,” Adrien Brody said backstage at Sunday’s Golden Globes, reflecting on his career from his Oscar win for The Pianist in 2003 to his first Golden Globe drama actor win tonight for The Brutalist.

For his second Globe nomination and first win, Brody prevailed over fellow nominees Ralph Fiennes (“Conclave”), Colman Domingo (“Sing Sing”), Timothée Chalamet (“A Complete Unknown”), Daniel Craig (“Queer”) and Sebastian Stan (“The Apprentice”).