Timothée Chalamet’s fate at the Golden Globes 2025 is no longer unknown.
It appears that the fourth time wasn’t the charm for Chalamet, who was nominated for his performance as Bob Dylan in the biopic A Complete Unknown and lost best actor in a drama film to The Brutalist’s Adrien Brody—who even gave dear “Timmy” a shout-out at the top of his acceptance speech. Chalamet was previously nominated for his lead role in 2017’s Call Me by Your Name, his supporting performance opposite Steve Carell in 2018’s Beautiful Boy, and his showing as the titular Wonka in 2023’s musical comedy.
This year’s closely watched best-actor-in-a-drama-film category was populated by nominees including Brody, The Apprentice’s Sebastian Stan, Queer’s Daniel Craig, Sing Sing’s Colman Domingo, and Conclave’s Ralph Fiennes. But it was Brody who emerged victorious, telling the crowd that he would “cherish this moment forever.”
The award marked the first Golden Globe for the 51-year-old Brody. While he made his way to Oscar glory in 2003 with The Pianist, the actor actually lost the Globe that year to Jack Nicholson, who won for his performance in Alexander Payne’s About Schmidt. “At the core of The Brutalist, it’s really a story about the human capacity for creation,” said Brody, whose director, Brady Corbet, won earlier in the evening. He also took a moment to acknowledge his partner, Georgina Chapman, who taught him “how to be,” as well as his family: “To my mom and dad, who are here tonight—my goodness, you always hold me up.”
But Chalamet shouldn’t mark the night as a total sad song. In the weeks before the Golden Globes 2025, Chalamet’s costar Edward Norton, who was Globe-nominated in the supporting-actor category for his role as folk legend Pete Seeger, praised his film’s leading man, telling Vanity Fair, “Does this movie get made without Timothée being unusually right to play [Dylan]? Let’s forget whether Timothée has had some hit movies lately that helped them rationalize in making this movie, which is great. I think it’s so beautiful that he said, ‘This is what I want to do.’” And in early December, in the weeks before the film’s release, Dylan himself shared his support for A Complete Unknown, writing on X, “Timmy’s a brilliant actor so I’m sure he’s going to be completely believable as me. Or a younger me. Or some other me.”
A Complete Unknown tells Dylan’s career origin story, following the 19-year-old Minnesotan as he moves to New York to pursue music in the early 1960s, eventually finding himself at a crossroads between the genres of folk and rock music. Had he won, Chalamet, who attended the ceremony with girlfriend Kylie Jenner, would have joined the likes of Austin Butler (Elvis Presley in Elvis), Jamie Foxx (Ray Charles in Ray), and Joaquin Phoenix (Johnny Cash in Walk the Line) as an actor who won a Golden Globe for playing a beloved real-life musician.
Shortly after Brody’s best-actor win, the star’s The Brutalist won best drama film, making it a certified front-runner for the Oscars when nominations are announced on January 17.
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