Adrien Brody won the Best Actor Oscar in 2003 for playing a Holocaust survivor in “The Pianist” and now he’s expected to have his second Oscar nomination as a very different Holocaust survivor in

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

I accepted that role without my agents even reading the script,” Brody told me with a wry expression. “Night didn’t want anyone to read it, so I honored his request.” Brody had come up working with directors like Spike Lee,