This Thursday, Timothée Chalamet became the youngest actor to be nominated twice for the Oscars, since James Dean, in 1957.
He entered the very exclusive club of men having received two nominations for their role as lead actor before turning 30. Timothée Chalamet received a nomination for the 2025 Oscars this Thursday for his role as Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown”.
He thus made the history of the competition by becoming, at 29 years old, the youngest actor to have been nominated twice for the Oscars since James Dean.
The star of “The Fury of Living”, who died in a car accident at the age of 24 in 1955, had been nominated twice posthumously in this category after his tragic death, the first in 1956 for his role in “À l’ is from Eden”, the second in 1957, for “Géant”.
Timothée Chalamet’s first nomination dates back to 2017 for his role in “Call Me By Your Name”.
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As Variety notes, the only other man before James Dean to earn two nominations in the main category in his 20s was Mickey Rooney, who was nominated for best actor at age 19 for Busby Berkeley’s 1939 musical “Babes”. in Arms,” then again four years later at age 23 for “The Human Comedy.”
-Still according to Variety, when Timothée Chalamet received his first nomination for the best actor award for “Call Me By Your Name” at age 22, he became the third youngest nominee in history in this category, after Mickey Rooney and Jackie Cooper, who was nominated for the 1931 comedy “Skippy,” when he was 9 years old.
If Oscar voters rarely reward men in their twenties for their performances, the best actress category is full of women who obtained multiple nominations before turning 30, including Joan Fontaine, Audrey Hepburn , Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan and Jennifer Lawrence.
The youngest winner of the best actor award to date remains Adrien Brody, who won at age 29 for “The Pianist” in 2002, and is nominated again this year for “The Brutalist.”
Note that another actress, Karla Sofía Gascón, made Oscar history this Thursday by becoming the first openly transgender person to be nominated in an acting category.
