Halle Berry made headlines at the Oscars 2025 as she planted a surprise kiss on Best Actor winner Adrien Brody 's lips - but the real reason behind the shocking moment goes back over two decades.

Adrien Brody entered Oscars infamy in 2003, when he pulled Halle Berry into an impromptu kiss onstage. On the Oscars red carpet on Sunday, Halle Berry had her revenge. In jest, of course.

The actors first shared a kiss during the Academy Awards in 2003 TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty; The Academy/Instagram Halle Berry is giving Adrien Brody a taste of his own medicine on the Oscars ...

In a puckered-up reunion, Oscar-winning actor Adrien Brody greeted Halle Berry on the red carpet with a deep kiss and a hug. The move was a callback to 2003 when, after winning his first Oscar for ...

Adrien Brody and Halle Berry recreated their controversial 2003 Academy Awards kiss on the 2025 Oscars red carpet on Sunday. Brody, 51, won Best Actor at this year’s Academy Awards for his ...

Berry surprised Brody with a kiss on the Oscars red carpet on March 2, 2025. Oscar winner Halle Berry brought back an infamous Oscars memory at this year's awards when she ran into Adrien Brody on ...

Halle spotted Adrien on the carpet with his girlfriend Marchesa, the co-founder Georgina Chapman, and playfully acknowledged her before planting a big kiss on Adrien. It was all in good fun ...

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In 2003, when Adrien Brody won Best Actor for The Piano, he took the stage at the Oscars and laid a very impromptu smooch on an unsuspecting Halle ... Berry then grabbed Brody and gave him a long ...

WASHINGTON — Twenty two years after their shocking kiss at the 2003 Oscars, Halle Berry got her "payback" on Adrien Brody. While walking the Oscars 2025 red carpet on Sunday, Berry approached ...

Oscar winner Halle Berry brought back an infamous Oscars ... callback to a 2003 Oscars memory when Brody surprised Berry with a kiss while accepting his best actor award for "The Pianist." ...