Brad Pitt Finally Wins An Acting Oscar

HOLLYWOOD, CA — The third time was finally the charm for actor Brad Pitt. Though he’s been one the world’s most famous actors for decades and thrice nominated for an Academy Award for acting, he’d never won in that category before Sunday.

However, his luck changed Sunday as he took home the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in “Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood.”

Pitt opened the night's speeches with some politics, a joke and some emotion.

“Thank you to the Academy for this honor of honors," he said. "They told me I only have 45 seconds up here, which is 45 seconds more than the senate gave John Bolton this week. I am thinking maybe Quentin does a movie about it, and in the end, the adults do the right thing.”

Pitt went on to tank director "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" Director Quentin Tarantino and co-star Leonardo DiCaprio.

“Leo, I’ll ride on your coattails anyday, man,” he said.

He ended his speech on an emotional look back on his on start in Hollywood and all that it gave him.

“Once upon a time in Hollywood...ain’t that the truth," he said holding up his Oscar. "This is for my kids who color everything I do. I adore you."

Up until Sunday, Pitt’s only Oscar was for his producing work on “12 Years A Slave,” which won the Best Picture award in 2014. He was first nominated for an Oscar for his supporting role in “12 Monkeys” in 1995 and then again for lead actor in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” 11 years ago and in "Moneyball" but all three years, he went home empty handed.

Leading up to the 92nd Academy Awards, he won a Golden Globe, SAG, and a BAFTA award for his role as stuntman Cliff Booth in the Quentin Tarantino film. And in the pre-Oscars award season, Pitt has largely stolen the spotlight time and again with a series of self-deprecating and playful acceptance speeches.

“I’ve gotta add this to my Tinder profile,” he joked while accepting a supporting actor trophy from the Screen Actors Guild Award for his role “Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.”

“Let’s be honest, it was a difficult part: A guy who gets high, takes his shirt off and doesn’t get on with his wife. It’s a big stretch.”

In winning the Golden Globe award for supporting actor, he gave a shout out to his co-star Leonardo Dicaprio while playing off Dicaprio's role in the blockbuster “Titanic.”

“I would’ve shared the raft,” he joked.

Though he was the favorite heading into the Oscars, Pitt was pitted against some venerable actors. He faced a veritable powerhouse of some of the most revered actors of the last 50 years, including:

• Tom Hanks, "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood"
• Anthony Hopkins, "The Two Popes"
• Al Pacino, "The Irishman"
• Joe Pesci, "The Irishman"