In 2014, Brody collaborated again with Wes Anderson in the Academy Award-winning "The Grand Budapest Hotel", where he played Dmitri. He received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or in a Movie for portraying the titular character in "Houdini", a History channel miniseries. The same year Brody was cast as the title role of Lee Tamahori's action epic "Emperor", about a young woman seeking revenge for the execution of her father by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, opposite Sophie Cookson. The movie was finished and screened at Cannes in 2017 but its release has been by legal challenges.