The proud sibling admittedly only tuned in to his brother's category during the live telecast.Proud sibling Macaulay Culkin is not at all surprised that his younger brother, Kieran Culkin, won his first Oscar at the 2025 Academy Awards.

The 97th Academy Awards already have an upset win. “Flow,” the wordless Latvian film won best animated film, a surprise victory over DreamWorks Animations' “The Wild Robot.” The win for “Flow,” an ecological parable about a cat in a flooded world,

After sweeping through Oscar season and running the table — including last week at the SAG Awards and the Indie Spirits — Kieran Culkin was never going to lose the Academy Award for his performance as the spirited but tortured Benji Kaplan in Jesse Eisenberg's seriocomic buddy pic A Real Pain.