Kieran Culkin Wins Oscar for Supporting Actor for ‘A Real Pain’
While his “Succession” character Roman Roy may not have ended up on top by the end of the HBO series, Kieran Culkin has proven a winner tonight after receiving the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor at the 97th Academy Awards.
Culkin’s first nomination and win come for his performance in Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain,” which features the two actors as cousins retracing their roots and rediscovering personal grievances while on a group trip to Poland. The actor takes home the prize over fellow nominee and former “Succession” co-star Jeremy Strong (“The Apprentice”), as well as Yura Borisov (“Anora”), Edward Norton (“A Complete Unknown”), and Guy Pearce (“The Brutalist”).
In his speech, on receiving the highest accolade of his industry Culkin said, “I’ve just been acting my whole life. It’s just been a part of what I do, so this is…I felt like this was never my trajectory.
Culkin’s first nomination and win come for his performance in Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain,” which features the two actors as cousins retracing their roots and rediscovering personal grievances while on a group trip to Poland. The actor takes home the prize over fellow nominee and former “Succession” co-star Jeremy Strong (“The Apprentice”), as well as Yura Borisov (“Anora”), Edward Norton (“A Complete Unknown”), and Guy Pearce (“The Brutalist”).
In his speech, on receiving the highest accolade of his industry Culkin said, “I’ve just been acting my whole life. It’s just been a part of what I do, so this is…I felt like this was never my trajectory.
- 3/3/2025
- by Harrison Richlin
- Indiewire
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