Timothée Chalamet openly shared his disappointment at not winning the Best Actor Oscar this year. The 29-year-old actor was nominated for his portrayal of Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown but lost to Adrien Brody, star of The Brutalist.
Timothée, previously nominated in 2017 for Call Me By Your Name, where he lost to Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour, told Vogue magazine:
“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.”
Although he did not take home the Oscar, Timothée won the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award for Best Leading Actor for the same role. During his acceptance speech, he expressed his ambition to become “one of the greats.” He said:
“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.”
Timothée Chalamet revealed his honest feelings of disappointment after missing the Oscar but celebrated his SAG win and remains determined to join acting’s elite.