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Look out kid: ecstatic reactions to Bob Dylan biopic mean Timothée Chalamet may break Oscars record
The actor gives ‘the performance of the year’ in A Complete Unknown according to one early reviewer. If Academy voters agree, he would be the youngest leading actor winner in Oscars history
The musical biopic genre has long been a favourite of Academy voters; other winners this century include Renée Zellweger for her performance as Judy Garland, Jamie Foxx (as Ray Charles), Marion Cotillard (Édith Piaf) and Rami Malek (Freddie Mercury). This year, Angelina Jolie is in the running for the best actress prize for her role as Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s biopic, and there has been considerable praise for the Robbie Williams film Better Man, in which the pop star is played by actor Jonno Davies, albeit rendered as a CGI chimpanzee. As with the Springsteen film, A Complete Unknown is adapted from a nonfiction book about a pivotal moment in its subject’s career: in Dylan’s case, his switch to the electric guitar at the Newport folk festival in 1965, risking the ire of his Greenwich Village friends and peers.
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