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Macaulay Culkin ‘Cried’ Over Brother Kieran’s Oscar Win and Only Watched His Category: ‘There Was No Way He Was Not Going to Win’


Macaulay Culkin knew his brother Kieran Culkin would win the Oscar for best supporting actor.

It turns out that category was the only part of the Oscars telecast that Culkin and his wife, fellow actor Brenda Strong, watched. Culkin won the Oscar for best supporting actor thanks to his acclaimed performance in Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain.” He was nominated opposite Yura Borisov (“Anora”), Edward Norton (“A Complete Unknown”) and Guy Pearce (“The Brutalist”). Macaulay and Kieran both got their starts as child actors and appeared together in films such as “Home Alone.” Kieran showed his family love during his Oscars acceptance speech, most notably when he brought up the infamous moment when, after winning the 2024 Emmy Award for best actor for HBO’s “Succession,” he asked his wife, Jazz Charton, to have a third child — which he did only because she’d promised to have another kid if he won the Emmy, not thinking he would.

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