Fans Shocked by Adrien Brody’s Gross Gum Toss at Oscars

Viewers were shocked to see two-time Oscar winner Adrien Brody spit his chewing gum into his hand and toss it to partner Georgina Chapman on his way to accept his second-ever Academy Award on Sunday. After Brody, 51, was announced as the Best Actor winner for his starring turn in The Brutalist, he kissed Chapman and began walking toward the stage—before apparently realizing he was still chewing his gum. He took it out of his mouth and made a throwing gesture, and Chapman then rushed forward and he tossed it to her. “Adrien Brody THROWING his gum at Georgina Chapman while on the stairs to accept his award [is] honestly more shocking to me than Will Smith slapping Chris Rock,” one user wrote on the social media platform X, referring the infamous 2022 Oscars moment that got Smith banned from the awards show for 10 years. “Adrien Brody’s wife just won the award for Best Supportive Significant Other and her statuette is a wad of her husband’s chewed gum that he tossed at her on his way up the stairs to accept the Oscar,” said another post. During his speech, Brody thanked Chapman for “reinvigorating” his self-worth, although, based on her reaction to the toss, she doesn’t seem to have actually caught Brody’s gum. The camera stayed on Brody as he took the stage, denying us the chance to see who heroically picked Oscar winner Adrien Brody’s gum up off the floor of the 97th annual Academy Awards.