Oscar Season’s Most Burning Question: Why Not Timothée?
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The 30-year-old superstar markets himself like nobody else. This has helped open his movies to major box-office success — but Oscar voters may take more convincing.
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Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment For his most visible Q&A during final Oscar voting, live on stage before an audience including Academy members, Timothée Chalamet sat for a taping of the basketball-focused podcast Mind the Game , hosted by NBA legends LeBron James and Steve Nash. For virtually any other nominee this year, the choice would seem out of character, inevitably distracting, ultimately baffling. For the Marty Supreme star, it was a natural culmination of another singular awards run. Chalamet does things his own way. The merits of his approach have drawn scrutiny for going on two years now, since he’s contending for the best actor Oscar for the second straight season. (Last year, he was up for A Complete Unknown and lost to The Brutalist ’s Adrien Brody.) He has kept things interesting. On the campaign trail, Chalamet has crashed his own lookalike contests and appeared in music videos to dispel — or inflame? — rumors of a rapper alter ego, EsDeeKid. He’s mostly eschewed typical awards press while giving lengthy interviews to the likes of Theo Von and Cody Rhodes. He’s played basketball with Adam Sandler and Los Angeles high schoolers; he’s hosted a town hall with Matthew McConaughey for Austin college students. He’s inundated us with real blimps and fake Zoom meetings and floods of orange. Related Stories Movies From 'Parasite' to 'Bugonia': How Korea's CJ ENM Became a Regular Oscars Contender Movies 'The Alabama Solution' Directors on Why Their Oscar-Nominated Film Is a Timely "Study of Complicity" As far as celebrity marketing goes, Chalamet demonstrates ingenuity. Along with his talent as an actor, his innovative, often meta promotional strategies have helped make him arguably the most bankable movie star of his generation — proving a range of risky films, whet...
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