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Kieran Culkin Wins Oscar and Reminds Wife of Her Promise About More Kids After the Emmys: ‘She Said, “I Will Give You Four When You Win an Oscar”‘
Kieran Culkin won the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his performance in “A Real Pain."
Winning the Oscar caps off an auspicious few years for Culkin, who also won multiple leading actor awards, including the aforementioned Emmy, for his performance as Roman Roy in the final season of “Succession.” He began his acting career as a small child, making his feature film debut alongside his older brother Macaulay Culkin in the 1990 comedy “Home Alone.” He played Steve Martin and Diane Keaton’s young son in 1991’s “Father of the Bride” and its 1995 sequel, and he played Meryl Streep’s youngest son in 1999’s “Music of the Heart.” But it wasn’t until his first leading performance, in 2002’s coming-of-age dramedy “Igby Goes Down,” that Culkin was able to showcase his ability to mix deft comic timing with a wounded melancholy — which he deployed to devastating effect in “A Real Pain.” Famously, Culkin nearly dropped out of making “A Real Pain” just weeks before he was due to start shooting because he couldn’t bear to be away from his wife and two kids for a month while on location in Europe. The other supporting actor nominees were Yura Borisov (“Anora”), Edward Norton (“A Complete Unknown”), Guy Pearce (“The Brutalist”) and Culkin’s “Succession” co-star, Jeremy Strong (“The Apprentice”).
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