Timothée Chalamet is quickly cementing his place among the greats.
On Friday morning, the 29-year-old actor received his first Grammy nomination in the category of Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media, for his portrayal of Bob Dylan in last year’s A Complete Unknown. He is nominated alongside F1 The Album, KPop Demon Hunters, Sinners and Wicked. However, unlike his fellow nominees, who are listed under “various artists”, Chalamet is the only individual to receive a nomination under his own name.
To embody the Like a Rolling Stone singer, Chalamet trained extensively over five years, learning to sing, play guitar and harmonica, and working with dialect and movement coaches to make his performance feel authentic. His dedication earned him his second Oscar nomination for Best Actor, in addition to nominations at the Golden Globes, BAFTAs, Critics’ Choice Awards, and SAG Awards, where he won the latter.
At the SAG Awards earlier this year, Chalamet delivered a headline-making speech while accepting the Best Actor award for A Complete Unknown. “I can downplay the significance of this award because it means the most to me. And I know we’re in a subjective business, but the truth is I’m really in pursuit of greatness. I know people don’t usually talk like that, but I want to be one of the greats. I’m inspired by the greats,” he said. “I’m as inspired by Daniel Day-Lewis, Marlon Brando and Viola Davis as I am by Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps, and I want to be up there.”
While he won the SAG Award, the Oscar went to Adrien Brody for The Brutalist. Chalamet had previously been nominated for Best Actor for Call Me by Your Name in 2018. He recently told Vogue that he was disappointed to have missed out on the Oscar for his Bob Dylan performance.
“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 said. “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, ‘Fuck!’ People can call me a try-hard, and they can say whatever the fuck. But I’m the one actually doing it here.”
As 2026 approaches, Chalamet is already generating Oscar buzz for his upcoming role as a ping-pong player in Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme. He is not the first high-profile actor to receive a Grammy nomination despite not being a traditional musician. Twelve-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper, for example, has won three Grammys for music-led films such as A Star Is Born and Maestro, in which he trained extensively—including six years preparing to portray legendary conductor Leonard Bernstein.
While Cooper has yet to win an Oscar, he has claimed multiple accolades on music’s biggest stage, suggesting that Chalamet may well follow a similar path.
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