A New Year and a New Landscape
FYI Marty Supreme’s Timothée Chalamet returned to the Critics Choice Awards as a best actor nominee — a year being nominated in the category for A Complete Unknown, but ultimately coming up short to The Brutalist’s Adrien Brody — and this time took home the prize, fending off formidable competition: Leonardo DiCaprio for One Battle After Another, Joel Edgerton for Train Dreams, Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon, Michael B. Jordan for Sinners and Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent. He could well be on his way to a win at the Oscars, too — I don’t think that one can make a stronger argument for the prospects of anyone else at this time — but I would just caution that the Academy has only once, in nearly a century of the Oscars, given its best actor prize to someone as young as Chalamet, who just turned 30 (the aforementioned Adrien Brody, who was 29 when he won for The Pianist). Fairly or not, many Academy members feel that someone that young will have other chances in the future, …
