Kieran Culkin Holds Wife Jazz Charton to Her Promise for More Kids as He Wins First Oscar: 'Let's Get Crackin'

Mar. 15, 2025

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Kieran Culkinhas won his first-everAcademy Award— and is holding his wifeJazz Chartonto her promise to grow their family!

During theOscars 2025ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 2, theA Real Painstar accepted the Best Supporting Actor statuette from presenterRobert Downey Jr.

After thankingA Real Paindirector Jesse Eisenberg and his family, he went on to give a special shoutout to his wife.

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“I love you Jazz,” he said. “I have to thank my wife Jazz for absolutely everything, for giving me my favorite people in the world."

“Please don’t play the music because I want to tell a really quick story about Jazz. About a year ago, I was on a stage like this, and I very stupidly publicly said that I want a third kid from her, because she said if I won the award, she would give me the kid,” he continued, referring to his 2023Emmy Awardsacceptance speech.

“It turns out she said that because she didn’t think I was gonna win,” he teased. “People came up to her and were like really annoying her. I think it got to her. But anyway, after the show, we’re walking through a parking lot. She’s holding the Emmy. We’re trying to find our car. Emily, you were there so you’re a witness, and she goes, ‘Oh, God, I did say that. I guess I owe you a third kid.’ And I turned to her, and I said, ‘Really, I want four.’"

“And she turned to me, I swear to God, this happened. It was just over a year ago. She said, ‘I will give you four when you win an Oscar.'"

“I held my hand out. She took it, and I have not brought it up once, until just now,” he concluded. “You remember that, honey, you do? Okay, then I just have this to say to you, Jazz, love of my life…No pressure. I love you. I’m really sorry I did this again, and let’s get cracking on those kids. What do you say?”

Also nominated in the Academy’s Best Supporting Actor category this year wereYura BorisovforAnora,Edward NortonforA Complete Unknown,Guy PearceforThe BrutalistandJeremy StrongforThe Apprentice.

Kieran Culkin in ‘A Real Pain’.Searchlight Pictures

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Culkin received his first-ever Oscar nomination and win for the role after also recently taking best supporting actor at theCritics Choice Awards,BAFTAsandSAG Awards, sweeping the season with aGolden Globewin, as well.

Yura Borisov inAnora(2024).Neon

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Borisov a classically trained Moscow-born actor, plays henchman Igor, who grows close toAnorathroughout the film. Baker wrote the role for Borisov, 32, after seeing him at theCannes Film Festivalin 2021 in the award-winning filmCompartment No. 6.

A Complete UnknowndepictsBob Dylanin the 1960s, with Norton’s fellow Oscar nomineeTimothée Chalametas the singer-songwriter.

Edward Norton inA Complete Unknown(2024).Searchlight Pictures

Norton, 55, costars as folk legendPete Seeger, withMonica BarbaroasJoan Baez,Elle Fanningas Sylvie Russo (based on the real-lifeSuze Rotolo) and more.

This marks Norton’s fourthOscar nod; he was previously nominated in 2015 forBirdman, in 1999 forAmerican History Xand in 1997 forPrimal Fear.

Adrien BrodyleadsThe Brutalistas László Tóth, a Hungarian-born Jewish architect who emigrates to the U.S. to flee the Holocaust. Pearce, 57, plays wealthy industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren andJoe Alwyncostars as Harrison’s son, withFelicity Jonesas László’s wife.

Guy Pearce inThe Brutalist(2024).A24

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Pearce’s role in the historic drama earned him his first Oscar nomination and landed multiple nods this awards season, including at the BAFTAs and Golden Globes.

Culkin’s formerSuccessioncostar Strong, 46, stars inThe Apprenticeas attorney Roy Cohn, the real-life mentor ofDonald Trump(Sebastian Stan).

Jeremy Strong inThe Apprentice(2024).Pief Weyman, Courtesy of Briarcliff Entertainment, Rich Spirit

Pief Weyman, Courtesy of Briarcliff Entertainment, Rich Spirit

The movie follows a young Trump, now 78, during the early days of his career in the ‘70s and ‘80s as he builds his real-estate business in New York City.

Stan, 42, is also nominated for Best Actor at the Oscars this year.

source: people.com