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, and elect to instead reward someone with a larger body of work. Could Chalamet be derailed by DiCaprio, even though DiCaprio already has a best actor Oscar to his name, because One Battle seems to have been more widely embraced by Oscar voters than Marty Supreme? Or by Moura, on the back of significant international support? Or by Jordan, who had as challenging an assignment as anyone, playing twins? Or by Hawke, who has been around for a long time and never been recognized? Time will tell.
Palm Springs also recognized Chalamet (Spotlight Award), Jordan (Icon Award-Actor), Hawke (Career Achievement Award), Isaac (Visionary Award, shared with his Frankenstein writer/director Guillermo del Toro and costars) and, in absentia, DiCaprio (Desert Palm Achievement Award-Actor), all of whom delivered impressive acceptance speeches.
Frontrunners
1. Timothée Chalamet for Marty Supreme (A24) — podcast
2. Leonardo DiCaprio for One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
3. Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent (Neon)
4. Michael B. Jordan for Sinners (Warner Bros.) — podcast
5. Joel Edgerton for Train Dreams (Netflix) — podcast
Major Threats
6. Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon (Sony Classics) — podcast
7. George Clooney for Jay Kelly (Netflix) — podcast 1 and 2
8. Dwayne Johnson for The Smashing Machine (A24) — podcast
9. Jeremy Allen White for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (20th Century) — podcast
10. Oscar Isaac for Frankenstein (Netflix) — podcast
Possibilities
11. Jesse Plemons for Bugonia (Focus) — podcast
12. Lee Byung-hun for No Other Choice (Neon)
13. Hugh Jackman for Song Sung Blue (Focus) — podcast
14. Will Arnett for Is This Thing On? (Searchlight)
Long Shots
15. Brendan Fraser for Rental Family (Searchlight) — podcast
16. Channing Tatum for Roofman (Paramount) — podcast
17. Russell Crowe for Nuremberg (Sony Classics)
18. Bill Skarsgård for Dead Man’s Wire (Row K)
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