{"id":390601,"date":"2026-01-06T06:27:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/390601\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T06:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:27:05","slug":"a-new-year-and-a-new-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/390601\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Year and a New Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFYI Marty Supreme\u2019s Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet returned to the Critics Choice Awards as a best actor nominee \u2014\u00a0a year being nominated in the category for A Complete Unknown, but ultimately coming up short to The Brutalist\u2019s Adrien Brody \u2014\u00a0and 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.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe could well be on his way to a win at the Oscars, too \u2014\u00a0I don\u2019t think that one can make a stronger argument for the prospects of anyone else at this time \u2014 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).<\/p>\n

\n\tFairly 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.<\/p>\n

\n\tPalm 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.<\/p>\n

\n\tFrontrunners
1. Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet for Marty Supreme (A24) \u2014\u00a0podcast<\/a>
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.) \u2014\u00a0podcast<\/a>
5. Joel Edgerton for Train Dreams (Netflix) \u2014\u00a0podcast<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tMajor Threats
6. Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon (Sony Classics) \u2014\u00a0podcast<\/a>
7. George Clooney for Jay Kelly (Netflix) \u2014\u00a0podcast 1<\/a> and 2<\/a>
8. Dwayne Johnson for The Smashing Machine (A24) \u2014 podcast<\/a>
9. Jeremy Allen White for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (20th Century) \u2014 podcast<\/a>
10. Oscar Isaac for Frankenstein (Netflix) \u2014\u00a0podcast<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tPossibilities
11. Jesse Plemons for Bugonia (Focus) \u2014\u00a0podcast<\/a>
12. Lee Byung-hun for No Other Choice (Neon)
13. Hugh Jackman for Song Sung Blue (Focus) \u2014\u00a0podcast<\/a>
14. Will Arnett for Is This Thing On? (Searchlight)<\/p>\n

\n\tLong Shots
15. Brendan Fraser for Rental Family (Searchlight) \u2014\u00a0podcast<\/a>
16. Channing Tatum for Roofman (Paramount) \u2014\u00a0podcast<\/a>
17. Russell Crowe for Nuremberg (Sony Classics)
18. Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd for Dead Man\u2019s Wire (Row K)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FYI Marty Supreme\u2019s Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet returned to the Critics Choice Awards as a best actor nominee \u2014\u00a0a year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[47403,189604,88,98283,29506,136207],"class_list":{"0":"post-390601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-academy-awards","9":"tag-academy-awards-2025","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-feinberg-forecast","12":"tag-oscars","13":"tag-oscars-2025"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}