Adrien Brody cried for the victims of the L.A. fires whereas accepting the perfect actor prize on the New York Movie Critics Circle Awards Wednesday night time at Tao Downtown in Manhattan.

“My coronary heart goes out to all of the households and the animals and our colleagues,” Brody mentioned, who took residence the award for his efficiency as László Tóth in Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist.” “A lot of the properties on the west aspect, the seashore aspect of the [Pacific Coast Highway] are gone. From the Palisades on, that is our neighborhood. So I simply need to thank and commend the bravery of the primary responders, and their sacrifices and their significant work that deserves our recognition tonight.”

Though Brody had probably the most emotional response to the fires, host David Sims and Sean Baker, who took residence the perfect screenplay award for “Anora,” additionally acknowledged their ideas had been with the individuals of Los Angeles.

“The Brutalist” director Corbet additionally shared some phrases of help for Los Angeles when accepting the award for finest movie, noting his New York residence burned down a number of years earlier than he shot his 2018 movie “Vox Lux.”

Earlier in his acceptance speech, Brody took a second to acknowledge his “Brutalist” costar Man Pearce.

“I liked appearing with you every single day, and I assume a lot of you’ve seen the movie, however for these of you who haven’t, Man delivered such a fancy and nuanced illustration of Van Buren,” Brody mentioned. “I don’t really feel that I’d be standing right here tonight if he didn’t ship such an impressive efficiency.”

Beginning Jan. 7, a number of raging fires broke out throughout the larger Los Angeles space following a extreme wind storm, with the worst being within the Pacific Palisades and the Eaton Canyon. Simply earlier than 6 p.m. on Wednesday, one other inferno began within the Hollywood Hills, inflicting Los Angeles mainstays just like the TLC Chinese language Theater and the Magic Fortress to close their doorways.