---
name: "Brady Corbet"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/brady-corbet"
fi1m_id: "brady-corbet"
imdb_id: "nm1227232"
tmdb_id: 55493
wikidata_id: "Q897115"
roles: ["Actor","Director","Writer"]
born: "17 August 1988"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 8
average_fi1m_score: 83
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-24T09:06:30.781346+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Brady Corbet

## Identity

Brady Corbet

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/brady-corbet
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** brady-corbet
- **IMDb ID:** nm1227232
- **TMDB ID:** 55493
- **Wikidata ID:** Q897115
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brady_Corbet, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q897115, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1227232/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55493

Actor and director. Born 17 August 1988 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor, Director, Writer
- **Born:** 17 August 1988, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
- **Active:** 2011–present
- **Also known as:** Brady James Monson Corbet
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 8: 4 acting, 1 directing, 1 writing, 2 other
- **Frequently works with:** [Mona Fastvold](https://film.one/person/mona-fastvold.md), [Amanda Seyfried](https://film.one/person/amanda-seyfried.md)
- **BAFTA Film Awards:** 1 BAFTA (1 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 83, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 80 (5), 2020s 71 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 83 to 73 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 4 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Science Fiction 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $24m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brady_Corbet, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q897115, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1227232/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55493

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Force Majeure*](https://film.one/film/force-majeure.md) (84), [*Melancholia*](https://film.one/film/melancholia.md) (80)
- **HBO Max:** [*Olive Kitteridge*](https://film.one/tv/olive-kitteridge.md) (84), [*The Brutalist*](https://film.one/film/the-brutalist.md) (76)
- **Disney+:** [*The Testament of Ann Lee*](https://film.one/film/the-testament-of-ann-lee.md) (73)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Brady Corbet

> Brady Corbet’s move from acting to directing has produced films we recommend with reservations. He gives performers time to hold our attention, but too often repeats what a performance or an image has already made clear.

In *The Brutalist* (2024), Adrien Brody’s László Tóth comes out of a ship’s hold into daylight. The camera swings, leaving the Statue of Liberty upside down above him. We were caught off guard by how much that shot affected us, despite understanding it immediately. Corbet makes the image work without explanation, then struggles to stop explaining it for the rest of the film.

Corbet’s acting work took him through Sean Durkin’s *Martha Marcy May Marlene* (2011), Lars von Trier’s *Melancholia* (2011) and Ruben Östlund’s *Force Majeure* (2014). He largely left acting behind around 2014, making his directing debut with *The Childhood of a Leader* (2015), co-written with Mona Fastvold. *Vox Lux* (2018) followed, a film with a good idea that never found a coherent way to tell it.

Fastvold is his regular co-writer, and cinematographer Lol Crawley is another recurring collaborator. The first hundred minutes of *The Brutalist* justify Corbet’s taste for scale and patience: an émigré architect and his American patron become absorbing company before the film presses its point about money and art. Brody carries this stretch, with Corbet giving the performance time rather than hurrying towards the next explanation.

After the interval, however, Corbet keeps restating what the relationship has already shown us. Jancsó’s editing cuts on as though the film has settled a question that it has barely examined. Corbet has already made his point about what patrons do to the people they pay, and repeating it more forcefully does not make it more convincing.

The writing problem returns in *The Testament of Ann Lee* (2025), directed by Fastvold and co-written with Corbet. Its congregation sings, stamps and spins to Shaker hymns, and the film is at its most persuasive when it stops to watch them. Between those services, the narration explains too much, despite Amanda Seyfried’s remarkable performance. There is enough life in the singing to make the interruptions frustrating. Start with *The Brutalist*, but take the interval; Corbet’s demands are easier to meet after a pause.

## Biography

Brady James Monson Corbet (born 17 August 1988) is an American filmmaker and former actor. He began his career as a child actor with roles in films including *Thirteen* (2003), *Mysterious Skin* (2004) and *Funny Games* (2007), before retiring from acting in 2014 to concentrate on directing and writing.

Corbet made his feature directorial debut with *The Childhood of a Leader* (2015). He has since directed and co-written *Vox Lux* (2018) and *The Brutalist* (2024), the latter earning him the Silver Lion at Venice, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for Best Director, along with Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. He co-wrote *The Testament of Ann Lee* (2025) with his partner and frequent collaborator Mona Fastvold.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, variety.com, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (8)

### Performed in (4) — the average rests on these

- *Force Majeure* (2014), Fi1m 84, as The American — [page](https://film.one/film/force-majeure.md)
- *Olive Kitteridge* (2014), Fi1m 84, as Henry Thibodeau — [page](https://film.one/tv/olive-kitteridge.md)
- *Martha Marcy May Marlene* (2011), Fi1m 84, as Watts — [page](https://film.one/film/martha-marcy-may-marlene.md)
- *Melancholia* (2011), Fi1m 80, as Tim — [page](https://film.one/film/melancholia.md)

### Directed (1)

- *The Brutalist* (2024), Fi1m 76, Writer, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-brutalist.md)

### Wrote (1)

- *The Testament of Ann Lee* (2025), Fi1m 73, Writer, Second Unit Director, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-testament-of-ann-lee.md)

### Also credited (2) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Materialists* (2025), Fi1m 63, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/materialists.md)
- *Christine* (2016), Fi1m 68, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/christine.md)

## Complete filmography (54)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Testament of Ann Lee* (2025), Writer, Producer, Second Unit Director — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/the-testament-of-ann-lee.md)
- *Atropia* (2025), Thanks
- *Materialists* (2025), Thanks — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/materialists.md)
- *The Brutalist* (2024), Director, Writer, Producer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/the-brutalist.md)
- *The Crowded Room* (2023), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *CHEERUP* (2023), Director
- *On Our Way* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Triangle of Sadness* (2022), Thanks — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/triangle-of-sadness.md)
- *The World to Come* (2021), Associate Producer
- *The Devil All the Time* (2020), Second Unit Director
- *Homemade* (2020), series, Writer, Director of Photography
- *30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing* (2019), Director
- *The Day the “Conducator” Died* (2019), Director
- *The Mustang* (2019), Thanks
- *Vox Lux* (2018), Director, Story, Screenplay
- *Rosy* (2018), Editor
- *Christine* (2016), Thanks — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/christine.md)
- *The Childhood of a Leader* (2016), Director, Producer, Screenplay
- *While We're Young* (2015), as Kent Arlington
- *Portrait of the Artist* (2015), Actor
- *Eden* (2014), as Larry
- *Olive Kitteridge* (2014), series, as Henry Thibodeau — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/olive-kitteridge.md)
- *Yellowbird* (2014), as Willy (voice)
- *Escobar: Paradise Lost* (2014), as Dylan
- *Saint Laurent* (2014), as Business man Squibb
- *Clouds of Sils Maria* (2014), as Piers Roaldson
- *Force Majeure* (2014), as The American — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/force-majeure.md)
- *The Sleepwalker* (2014), as Ira · Writer
- *Karaoke!* (2013), as Christopher
- *All That I Am* (2013), as Bus Passenger (Uncredited) · Editor
- *Atlantic Avenue* (2013), as Jeremiah
- *Simon Killer* (2012), as Simon · Story
- *Martha Marcy May Marlene* (2011), as Watts — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/martha-marcy-may-marlene.md)
- *Melancholia* (2011), as Tim — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/melancholia.md)
- *Two Gates of Sleep* (2010), as Jack · Editor
- *Mary Last Seen* (2010), as Man
- *Dead Hands* (2010), as Ben
- *La dérive* (2009), as Sister's Boyfriend
- *Protect You + Me* (2008), Writer, Director
- *Funny Games* (2008), as Peter
- *Sunny and Share Love You* (2007), as Guy on the Street
- *Friendly Fire* (2006), as Saltimbanque
- *Mysterious Skin* (2005), as Brian Lackey
- *Thunderbirds* (2004), as Alan Tracy
- *Thirteen* (2003), as Mason
- *Oliver Beene* (2003), series, as Spencer
- *24* (2001), series, as Derek Huxley — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/24.md)
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, as Henry Christensen
- *The King of Queens* (1998), series, as Stu
- *Law & Order* (1990), series, as Patrick Friendly — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)
- *David Byrne: Who Is The Sky?*, Director, Producer
- *The Origin of the World*, Director, Writer, Producer
- *Untitled Cai Guo-Qiang Documentary*, Director
- *Self-Portrait*, Writer, Executive Producer

## Gallery

- ![Brady Corbet](https://film.one/media/person/7325/gallery-165d5e59af88.jpg) Brady Corbet — Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Brady_Corbet_at_Berlinale_2024.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Brady Corbet Presents Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar Mar. 8, 2013 at Tower Theater](https://film.one/media/person/7325/gallery-a543200408a7.jpg) Brady Corbet Presents Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar Mar. 8, 2013 at Tower Theater — MiamiFilmFestival, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Brady_Corbet%2C_Actor_Filmmaker_%288591526677%29.jpg/1280px-Brady_Corbet%2C_Actor_Filmmaker_%288591526677%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Brady Corbet Presents Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar Mar. 8, 2013 at Tower Theater](https://film.one/media/person/7325/gallery-9e3e6dc2c670.jpg) Brady Corbet Presents Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar Mar. 8, 2013 at Tower Theater — MiamiFilmFestival, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Brady_Corbet%2C_Actor_Filmmaker_%288591526677%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Brady Corbet Presents Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar Mar. 8, 2013 at Tower Theater](https://film.one/media/person/7325/gallery-755bf62ce82e.jpg) Brady Corbet Presents Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar Mar. 8, 2013 at Tower Theater — MiamiFilmFestival, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Brady_Corbet%2C_Actor_Filmmaker_%288592629766%29.jpg/1280px-Brady_Corbet%2C_Actor_Filmmaker_%288592629766%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Brady Corbet](https://film.one/media/person/7325/gallery-c75d021e3a3e.jpg) Brady Corbet — Image via TMDB
- ![Brady Corbet](https://film.one/media/person/7325/gallery-51c2493abfd0.jpg) Brady Corbet — Image via TMDB
- ![Brady Corbet](https://film.one/media/person/7325/gallery-89a8eaa9e8f4.jpg) Brady Corbet — Image via TMDB
- ![Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold et Amanda Seyfried à l'avant-première du "Testament d'Ann Lee" au Max Linder Panorama, le 17 février 2026.](https://film.one/media/person/7325/gallery-8e5ef73d78f2.jpg) Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold et Amanda Seyfried à l'avant-première du "Testament d'Ann Lee" au Max Linder Panorama, le 17 février 2026. — ManoSolo13241324, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Brady_Corbet%2C_Mona_Fastvold_et_Amanda_Seyfried_2026.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![IMG_13169.jpg (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/7325/gallery-a953a4bf3af2.jpg) IMG_13169.jpg (2011) — Tabercil from Canadian, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Brady_Corbet_%286143376366%29.jpg/1280px-Brady_Corbet_%286143376366%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Brady Corbet](https://film.one/media/person/7325/gallery-cd660e275156.jpg) Brady Corbet — Image via TMDB
- ![Brady Corbet](https://film.one/media/person/7325/gallery-9aa879fb2a43.jpg) Brady Corbet — Image via TMDB
- ![Brady Corbet](https://film.one/media/person/7325/gallery-8c0243997c61.jpg) Brady Corbet — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 3 nominated

- 2025: Best Picture (nominated), for *The Brutalist*
- 2025: Best Director (nominated), for *The Brutalist*
- 2025: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *The Brutalist*

### BAFTA Film Awards — 1 won

- 2025: Best Direction (won), for *The Brutalist*

### Golden Globes — 1 won

- 2025: Best Director (won), for *The Brutalist*

### Other awards — 2 won

- Satellite Award for Best Director 2025: Satellite Award for Best Director (won), for *The Brutalist*
- Silver Lion 2024: Silver Lion (won), for *The Brutalist*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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