Timothée Chalamet in close-up looking down intensely in Marty Supreme
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Alex is the Senior Movies Editor, managing the New Movies team, as well as one of ScreenRant's Rotten Tomatoes-approved critics. After graduating from Brown University with a B.A. in English, he spent a locked-down year in Scotland completing a Master's in Film Studies from the University of Edinburgh, which he hears is a nice, lively city. He now lives in and works from Milan, Italy, conveniently a short train ride from the Venice Film Festival, which he first covered for SR in 2024.
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Timothée Chalamet has been the defining movie star of his generation for some time now. After breaking out in a big way in 2017, which saw him lead Call Me by Your Name and play a key supporting role in Lady Bird, the young actor has been on an ascendant trajectory, carving out the kind of career and presence hardly considered possible in the social media era. That the Academy would eventually anoint him with his first Oscar has seemed inevitable for some time now.
He's been nominated twice so far, both times for Best Actor. The first, for Call Me by Your Name, felt like him being acknowledged as a major new talent; the nomination itself was the reward, and he was never really a threat to win. But his second, for playing Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown just this past award cycle, felt like it nearly broke his way. Had he won, he would've taken the record for the youngest-ever Best Actor recipient from Adrien Brody, his fellow nominee. Instead, Brody won his second, and Chalamet left an impression that his conquest of Hollywood was about to enter a new chapter.
Now, just a few months after the SAG awards speech in which he declared he wanted to be one of the greats, he's already back in the Academy Awards race. This time, he's going to win.
Marty Supreme's Reviews Put Timothée Chalamet On A Direct Path To Best Actor
Heading into awards season, Oscars-watchers had Marty Supreme circled on their calendar as a question mark of note. The A24 film directed Josh Safdie was dated for Christmas Day and destined to skip the fall festivals, leaving the door open for it to be a late-breaking contender to disrupt races that might already feel solidified by then. Instead, the film appeared as a surprise screening at the New York Film Festival on October 6, and has felt like a key player ever since.
More specifically, this started to feel like Chalamet's moment after those rapturous first reactions to his performance. He has been at the center of Marty Supreme's unconventional (and hilarious) marketing, even winkingly calling back to his SAG speech in one video of him hijacking a promotional strategy meeting. The movie is about an intensely driven athlete striving for greatness, and Chalamet has weaponized this persona to promote both Marty Supreme and himself. He makes naked ambition feel like a winsome quality.
Yesterday, December 1, the film's review embargo lifted, and it was cemented as a major Best Picture contender. (Screen Rant's own Todd Gilchrist rated Marty Supreme a full 10/10.) It seems destined to appear in multiple places on nominations day. But Timothée Chalamet is the story. His performance as Marty Mauser is earning raves, with more than one critic invoking young Al Pacino – there may be no higher praise for a young male star. He's clearly going for gold this year.
And, unlike last time, there's no one currently in the running capable of stopping him. Adrien Brody gave a career-defining performance in The Brutalist and held the frontrunner position for the entire season, even with Chalamet's strong challenge. This time, there are a number of great actors in the running, from Leonardo DiCaprio and Ethan Hawke to Michael B. Jordan and Wagner Moura, but none who have been able to establish themselves as firmly ahead of the pack. After these reviews and with his marketing ubiquity, his momentum will put him in the pole position and make this his Oscar to lose.
Ironically, the one likely closest to being able to catch him is DiCaprio, who famously gave him advice on movie stardom when the two appeared in Don't Look Up together. But even if DiCaprio gives one of his best performances in One Battle After Another, the conversation around that movie isn't orbiting him the same way that Marty Supreme's does Chalamet. PTA's film may be in the lead for Best Picture, but it's hard to imagine looking back on this Best Actor race as anything but a passing of the torch.
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