While Jesse Eisenberg's David is perhaps the "everyman" and the audience's entry point into the story, Benji is the heart of A Real Pain. Watching his layers of trauma and emotionality unfold throughout the film's 90-minute runtime is deeply moving, especially his devastated reaction to visiting a former Nazi concentration camp.

For the past dozen years, the eventual Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actor has hailed from a Best Picture nominee. But that streak could finally end this year, based on Gold Derby’s predictions. Kieran Culkin is the odds-on frontrunner to win Best Supporting Actor for his performance in A Real Pain.

The works explore a process familiar to Jewish visitors to the death camps and the former homes of vanished loved ones: an occasion to face the enormity of the Holocaust, the inheritance of family

In ‘A Real Pain,’ Jewish cousins tour Poland, cracking jokes and confronting the past In this almost perfect little film, Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin play cousins who reconnect in Poland to honor the memory of their grandmother, a Holocaust survivor.

Culkin, 42, is nominated for his role as cousin Benji in Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain,” while Strong, 46, earned his after portraying Roy Cohn in the polarizing Donald Trump biopic, “The Apprentice.”

It’s part comedy, part tragedy. It’s part road-trip saga, part odd couple-buddy flick, and part Holocaust film. What could possibly have gone wrong? Yup – everything could have gone wrong. So the first miracle about “A Real Pain,

Here's what the bittersweet ending of A Real Pain starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin really means. Jesse Eisenberg, best known for The Social Network, made his directorial debut with When You Finish Saving the World.

Kieran Culkin has just earned his first Oscar nomination for his performance in 'A Real Pain' by Jesse Eisenberg. He is nominated for 'Best Supporting Actor'.

Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain has emerged as one of the most acclaimed films of recent times, grossing $16 million against a modest $3 million budget. Despite strong word of mouth and a successful limited release worldwide,

Succession stars Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Strong both scored Oscar nominations in the Best Supporting Actor category on Thursday morning, with Culkin earning one for his turn as chaotic cousin Benji in Jesse Eisenberg ’s A Real Pain and Strong for his stern portrayal of Roy Cohn in the polarizing Donald Trump biopic, The Apprentice, respectively.

The best way to play a free-spirited man who gets under his cousin’s skin is not to prepare at all, says Kieran Culkin. “You never quite know what’s gonna come out of him and I didn’t want to plan that ahead of time,

Kieran Culkin won the 2025 Golden Globe award for best supporting actor for his performance as Benji in this cousins-on-a-Holocaust tour drama