Oscars 2025: Kieran Culkin completes award sweep; WINS Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor after Golden Globe, BAFTA, SAG
Kieran Culkin won the Oscar for best supporting actor Sunday at the 97th Academy Awards, completing a sweep of the category that followed his dominance in television awards last season.
The award, for portraying the chaotic but endearing Benji in Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain,” marked his first win and nomination.
Culkin thanked his manager, his mom, Eisenberg and his wife, Jazz Charton – taking the moment to remind his wife that he wants more kids.
“About a year ago, I was on the stage like this, and I very stupidly, publicly, said that I want a third kid from her because she said if I won the award, she would give me the kid,” he said, recalling his speech at the Emmys last January. After the show, “She goes, oh, God, I did say that. I guess I owe you a third kid. And I turned to her and I said, really? I want four.”
“She said, I will give you four when you win an Oscar,” Culkin, who has two kids with Charlton, said to a chorus of laughs from the audience. “Jazz, love of my life. Ye of little faith. No pressure, I love you.”
Culkin triumphed over nominees Guy Pearce for “The Brutalist,” Edward Norton for “A Complete Unknown,” Yura Borisov for “Anora” and his fellow “Succession” alum Jeremy Strong for “The Apprentice.” The category was one of few with a clear favorite ahead of this year’s ceremony, after Culkin picked up the Golden Globe, BAFTA, Independent Spirit Award, SAG Award and a slew of critics awards earlier this month.