So Timothée Chalamet doesn’t win much, have you noticed? Well, in life he does. But at awards shows? Not so much. Chalamet didn’t win any awards for Call Me by Your Name, despite being nominated for all of them, and has thus far been blanked on television for A Complete Unknown. The trend abated at the 2025 SAG Awards, where he took home Outstanding Lead Actor in a surprise upset over Adrien Brody. And it turns out, as a speech-giver, he is … kinda kooky and extremely earnest. Who’da thunk? “I know the classiest thing would be to downplay the effort that went into this role and how much this means to me, but the truth is this was five years of my life,” he said. “I poured everything I had into playing this incomparable artist, Mr. Bob Dylan.” He then kind of negged his own movie while thanking “the entire cast, who, in a genre doin’ a biopic that could be perhaps tired, gave it their all.”
“I know we’re in a subjective business, but the truth is I’m really in pursuit of greatness,” Chalamet continued. “I know people don’t usually talk like that, but I’m inspired by the greats.” He already sounded like 2000s-era Kanye West writing a twinkier version of “Jesus Walks,” but then he decided to get even stranger. “I’m as inspired by Daniel Day-Lewis and Marlon Brando and Viola Davis,” he proclaimed, naming three great actors seemingly at random, “as I am by Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps.” Totally, dude. We also love the little twang you have goin’ right now, buddy.