The backstory of Brady Corbet's remarks about creative freedom during his acceptance speech for best dramatic film: "You give me that number, but don't tell me how to spend it."

"No one was asking for a three and a half hour film about a mid-century designer, on 70mm, but it works," the filmmaker said.

Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce are brilliant in Brady Corbet's epic masterpiece "The Brutalist," about a Holocaust survivor making his way in America.