Timothée Chalamet Is Youngest 2-Time Best Actor Oscar Nominee Since James Dean

Not bad, kid: Timothée Chalamet, who earned an Oscar nomination for playing Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, hit a major milestone today.

The 29-year-old is the youngest actor to become a two-time Best Actor Oscar nominee since James Dean. Chalamet’s last nomination was in 2018 for Call Me By Your Name.

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Dean was posthumously nominated in 1956 for East of Eden and for Giant a year later. He was only 24. (He died in a car accident at 24 in 1955).

Chalamet will have an opportunity to crow on Saturday when he hosts SNL. He’s also serving as musical guest and is likely to perform at least a Dylan song or two, given his singing for the role in A Complete Unknown.

In a promo released Wednesday, Chalamet played off the recent craze for Chalamet look-a-like contests by recruiting some of the kinda-sorta lookalikes to help with his duties. One lucky faux-Timmy gets to appear on the Tonight Show, much to the apparent concern of host Jimmy Fallon.

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“I’ve never done this before,” Chalamet says at the start of the promo, chatting with his stand-ins (one in Wonka drag, a Dylan, a couple of red carpets looks). “You know, I’m having to be SNL host and musical guest in the same week, so it’s a lot of work and I want to focus on the songs.”

Following the December 18 release of A Complete Unknown, streams of the following tracks saw an increase in streams on Spotify in the U.S.:

• “I Was Young When I Left Home” by Bob Dylan +505% vs. average

• “Highway 61 Revisited” by Bob Dylan +440% vs. average

• “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry” by Bob Dylan +405% vs. average

• “Song to Woody” by Bob Dylan +270% vs. average

• “Maggie’s Farm” by Bob Dylan +215% vs. average

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