Director Brady Corbet Says He Made 'Zero Money' From Oscar-Nominated 'Brutalist'

The film has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including best director and screenplay nods for Corbet, who says he hasn't "made any money" in years.

Brady Corbet says his Oscar-nominated film has earned him absolutely nothing.

While “The Brutalist” is critically acclaimed and earned 10 Academy Award nominations last month, including best director and screenplay nods for Corbet, he told Marc Maron on the “WTF” podcast Monday that he hasn’t seen a penny from the buzzed-about drama.

“I just directed three advertisements in Portugal,” he said. “It’s the first time that I had made any money, really, in years, because both my partner and I made zero dollars on the last two films that we made. … So we just had to live off of a paycheck from three years ago.”

Corbet’s previous film, “Vox Lux” (2018), which also was cowritten by his wife and creative partner, Mona Fastvold, was a critical misfire. “The Brutalist,” about a Hungarian immigrant fleeing Europe after World War II, earned actor Adrien Brody his first Oscar nod since 2002.

Corbet told Maron that despite the accolades, “having to travel every two or three days” as part of an awards push has been “less than ideal” — as he said he isn’t getting paid to do so. The filmmaker further noted that he isn’t the only one to live paycheck to paycheck.