Timothée Chalamet knows what it’s like to lose at awards ceremonies; after all, he’s had a lot of practice. The actor has lost ten times now over the Oscars, Golden Globes, and BAFTAs, including, most recently, the Best Actor Oscar this year for “A Complete Unknown” (he did, however, win a SAG Award for the role).
Chalamet’s lousy win percentage won’t keep him from trying, though, even if it makes him look like a “try-hard” to his fellow thespians. Variety reports (via Vogue’s new cover story) that the actor no longer fears being candid about his desire to win a big prize like an Academy Award. “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?’” Chalamet told the publication. “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*ck!’ ”
“People can call me a try-hard, and they can say whatever the f*ck,” the actor added. “But I’m the one actually doing it here.” Right, Tim, but so are the rest of your actors and fellow moviemakers. And while several of them also lose at awards ceremonies ever year, they’re able to temper their disappointment with graciousness for getting nominated in the first place. It’s called modesty: maybe Chalamet should familiarize himself with that quality before he runs his mouth about stuff like this.
Chalamet’s comment to Vogue echoes a similar sentiment he made during an interview on SiriusXM last year. The actor described losing at an awards show as a “uniquely hilarious” experience, including having to rip up an unused victory speech. “You think to yourself, ‘You narcissistic arrogant prick. On what planet did you think you were gonna use this?'” Again, Tim, at any given awards ceremony, there are more losers in the room than winners, every single time. Every other actor and crew member who loses at these things knows how to take it in stride; why can’t you do the same?
With the buzz around Chalamet’s next film, “Marty Supreme,” there’s little doubt that the actor will be in the mix again for an Oscar Best Actor nomination this awards season. And an Oscar victory is no doubt what the actor considers the end game of his “pursuit of victory,” the phrase Chalamet used in the speech he made after winning his SAG Award earlier this year. “You don’t want to risk being too declarative,” the actor told Vogue, but, in this case, Chalamet certainly is being just that. Attempting to speak something into existence is one thing, but not recognizing that one’s ambitions are amidst any number of other people’s at a ceremony is another. Learn to read the room, Tim: not every awards season competition is solely about you and your aspirations.
Is part of Chalamet’s aspiration also challenging himself as an artist? Sure. “I also don’t want to look back on life and things I’ve put out and go, ‘Oh, little old me. Hey, see the movie if you want. It is what it is,'” the actor continued to Vogue. “No. At worst, you’ve rubbed people the wrong way. And at best, someone will get pulled in and go, ‘Hey, this guy really thinks this thing’s worthy.’” Maybe that’s what Chalamet should focus on more at this stage of his career than getting that big Oscar victory he’s searching for. Make more movies that test his abilities as an actor, grow as a person in the process, and maybe, eventually, down the line, he’ll be rewarded for his efforts; if not with an Oscar, then with the process of becoming a better creator and a human being.
So, if Chalamet loses again this coming awards season for “Marty Supreme,” don’t sweat it, kid. There will be other chances, like “Dune: Part Three,” or the motocross movie Chalamet is developing with James Mangold. Or another project on the horizon that the actor doesn’t even know about yet. As his career continues, maybe what’s more important than a trophy and recognition from his peers will manifest for Chalamet: humility, a trait, from the sounds of things, this actor desperately needs.
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