{"id":396638,"date":"2026-01-09T05:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396638\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T05:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:29:09","slug":"timothee-chalamets-marty-supreme-campaign-energizes-awards-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396638\/","title":{"rendered":"Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet’s ‘Marty Supreme’ Campaign Energizes Awards Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tKudos season is upon us with its ever-evolving rules and rituals. The various filmgoing juries<\/a> are delivering their lists of favorites, while the media weighs in on the star performances: Which actors have pitched most persuasively? Are upsets in the wind?<\/p>\n

\n\tTimoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/a> has clearly emerged as this season\u2019s hustling icon, his campaign for Marty Supreme<\/a> as manic as his movie. While George Clooney presents himself as the calm senior superstar in Jay Kelly, the once-reserved Chalamet has become an over-caffeinated orange<\/a> banana who out-blitzes even Amanda Seyfried, Sydney Sweeney and Jennifer Lawrence.<\/p>\n

\n\tNo longer a complete unknown wrapped in the Bob Dylan mystique, Chalamet has energized a balky awards circuit whose stars and filmmakers years ago had retreated from the rigors of self-promotion, with some still preferring to avoid it.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt seemed like a good opportunity to back away,\u201d observed a wary Paul Mescal, who said he\u2019s looking forward to a PR-free life until his 2028 turn in as Paul McCartney Sam Mendes\u2019 untitled Beatles biopics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut in 1999, \u201cbacking away\u201d didn\u2019t serve either Steven Spielberg or Tom Hanks. Both were impelled to launch ninth-inning pushes to persuade Oscar voters that Shakespeare wasn\u2019t really in love and Private Ryan needed serious saving.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpielberg reluctantly embarked on a five-city tour, but it was too late and Private Ryan lost anyway. The fervid Harvey Weinstein era of awards campaigning was suddenly about to blast off.<\/p>\n

\n\tA generation ago, Oscar winners like Marlon Brando and George C. Scott were unwilling even to attend kudos events, no less accept the statuettes. Neither would have agreed to portray a skinny ping pong hustler with a surly disposition and bad complexion.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis season, Michael B. Jordan briefly represented a throwback to that era, initially downplaying the awards hustle for his well-reviewed Sinners before hitting the circuit yet again.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the female side of the acting ballots, competitors this season exercised no such constraint especially in challenging critical slights. Lawrence\u2019s testy performance in Die My Love caught critics\u2019 barbs in Cannes, and one Venice guru even suggested Seyfried seemed \u201canti sex\u201d as Ann Lee, the feisty founder of the Shaker sect, in Mona Fastvold\u2019s The Testament of Ann Lee. Sweeney had to overcome the \u201cgreat jeans\u201d stigma in capturing the surreal twists and turns of The Housemaid.<\/p>\n

\n\tGeorge Clooney confronted vastly different issues as Jay Kelly, with a few critics even challenging the star\u2019s impeccable interview skills. \u201cIt is hard not to laugh at his self-absorption,\u201d wrote Kyle Smith of the Wall Street Journal. \u201cKelly cannot avoid defining himself by his own success,\u201d observes Noah Baumbach, Jay Kelly\u2018s director, reflecting the challenges of a star portraying a star.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile stars and filmmakers this season tried to cope candidly with questioners, their impact was nonetheless inhibited by the rigors of Oscar rules. Academy members are free to identify themselves as voters but cautioned not to reveal their preferences. Hence the lavish screening parties and fierce arguments that characterized the Weinstein epoch no longer obscure the landscape.<\/p>\n

\n\tEven Golden Globes voters are now publicly identified, and rumors about secret rewards and travels have vanished.<\/p>\n

\n\tChalamet is thus liberated to paint his landscape whichever shade of orange he favors. Bob Dylan likely would have kept on his shades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kudos season is upon us with its ever-evolving rules and rituals. The various filmgoing juries are delivering their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,56102,107653,56103],"class_list":{"0":"post-396638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-marty-supreme","11":"tag-peter-bart","12":"tag-timothu00e9e-chalamet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396638","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=396638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}