Actor Adrien Brody slammed for throwing half-chewed gum to girlfriend before Best Actor Oscar acceptance speech

Adrien Brody has been pilloried by fans after the Oscar-winning actor took a piece of chewed gum out of his mouth and threw it to girlfriend Georgina Chapman before accepting his award for Best Actor.

Brody, 51, caught the ire of millions of people watching the prestigious awards show in Los Angeles on Sunday, local time, when he received the award for his role in epic, The Brutalist.

The talented actor plays the role of a Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor, who immigrates to the United States, only to struggle to be accepted and achieve the American dream.

Brody previously won the Oscar for best actor in 2003 for The Pianist.

When Brody’s name was called for the award, he got up out of his seat and made his way to the stage steps, only to swiftly turn around and remove chewing gum.

He then threw it at Chapman.

Chapman, who is the former wife of disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein, caught it in her hands.

The Brutalist actor then proceeded to make the longest acceptance speech in history.

Fans were taken aback by the move from the Hollywood actor.

“Adrien Brody .... Threw gum as he entered the stage and cued to music off. Then proceeded to virtue signal. Lost all respect for him,” one person wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

“Arrest Adrien Brody for hurling his gum at his wife at the Oscars,” another wrote.

On Tuesday, 7NEWS Melbourne’s Nick McCallum and founding member of Western Sydney Women, Amanda Rose, joined Nat Barr on Sunrise to speak about the move.

“He was chewing gum before it was revealed he won and then disposed it by throwing it to his girlfriend, who seemed more than happy to catch it. Some say it’s gross, others say it’s love,” Barr said.

Rose: “If that is love, the bar has dropped so low we just might as well give up now. How about swallow the gum, buddy? You don’t throw it at someone at an awards ceremony. At your girlfriend, in front of everyone.

“My rule is if they’re doing that in public God only knows what they’re like in private and I think it’s horrific.”

Barr: “Nick, we have lots of different opinions. Someone says, ‘who even does that, gross, what a pig’, another person says, ‘the most romantic thing I’ve seen, the sign of a solid marriage’. Would you do think?”

McCallum: “I’m no expert on romance. I’m not going to tell a Hollywood superstar about affairs of the heart but let me tell you, if I’d taken gum out of my gob and thrown it at my wife, it would have been hurled back at me one million miles an hour.

“She wouldn’t have cared if there were hundreds of millions of people on live television watching, I would have copped an earful.”

Barr: “I like her already. Chapman seemed to have just gone after it and didn’t care. Is it between them?”

Rose: “Obviously not because the entire world was watching.

“Just swallow it. This tells me he didn’t have a hard childhood where our parents said, ‘swallow it right now before you see your grandparents.’”