Timothée Chalamet will have to wait until at least his next supposed Sure Thing to collect his Oscar. Though the prodigious young actor was tipped early in the awards season as a near-lock for Best Actor, given his high-energy, irresistibly disagreeable performance in the fast-paced Josh Safdie film Marty Supreme, he wound up losing his third Best Actor nomination to first-time nominee (but longer-time actor) Michael B. Jordan, who won for his dual performance in Ryan Coogler’s vampire-crime-musical-drama-thriller Sinners.
Most of the time, it’s really easiest to assume that when a performance wins an Oscar, it’s because the Academy members voted for it, rather than against someone else. In other words, no one really gets Norbited, no matter how much fun it is to write about. That said, it’s possible that Chalamet’s relentless, Marty Mauser-ish, life-self-consciously-imitating-art campaign of terror-charm might have put off some voters, if they happened to be
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