Timothée Chalamet on Missing the Best Actor Oscar
Timothée Chalamet openly expressed his disappointment at not winning the Best Actor Oscar this year. The 29-year-old actor was nominated for his role as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, but the award went to Adrien Brody for The Brutalist.
Previous Nomination and Reflections
This was not Chalamet’s first close call; he was previously nominated in 2017 for Call Me By Your Name but lost to Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour. Speaking to America's Vogue, he shared his honest feelings:
“If there’s five people at an awards show, and four people go home losing you don’t think those four people are at the restaurant like, ‘Damn, we didn’t win’? I’ve been around some deeply generous, no-ego actors, and maybe some of them are going, ‘That was fun.’ But I know for a fact a lot of them are going, ‘F***’."
“People can call me a try-hard, and they can say whatever the f***. But I’m the one actually doing it here.”
SAG Award Recognition
Although he missed out on the Oscar, Chalamet won the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award for Best Leading Actor for the same role. During his acceptance speech, he expressed a strong ambition:
“I know the classiest thing would be to downplay the effort that went into this role and how much it means to me, but the truth is, this was five-and-a-half years of my life, I poured everything I had into playing this incomparable artist, Mr.”
Summary
Timothée Chalamet candidly reveals his true emotions about award losses, yet remains determined to cement his legacy among acting greats.